Re: [OT] price of doing science (was: No call for Ada...)

[Marius Amado Alves <maa@liacc.up.pt>]

On Friday 30 April 2004 16:25, Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> > Believe me, it's perceived as the "price", and not at all "natural", at
> > least by the vast majority of scientists, form all over the world, and
> > particulary Europe, I've been working with in various institutions for
> > the last decade or so.
>
> A scientist, who explicitly asks to believe him regarding a non-private
> issue in which he apparently did not conduct any scientific research, looks
> somehow strange.

It is a private issue. I was offering my experience.

> How do you know what those many (vast majority) scientists to whom your are
> referring do perceive?

We talk.

> You could see only that they displayed publicly (and
> the tradition requires them to display distaste for those purely
> organizational matters).

Maybe there is a preverted clerk-at-spirit disguising as a scientist out 
there, but he must be one in a million.