Mentors and new senior colleagues often forget how much young scientists don't know, and the latter group often doesn't even know what questions to ask.
This is the case because, no matter how much work scientists do to understand the material real and to generate better concepts, they must always employ ideological concepts to frame their investigations and its results.
How much planning should scientists do, and how hard should they try to stick to those plans?
But while it is always fair to confront any research with the question "so what?" and while you can hardly expect everyone to be interested in the mundane or the obscure, the fact is that behind much of what scientists do lies a good, and often extraordinary, story.
But most catalysts are either on or off and there hasn't been much scientists could do to flip the switch.
Why didn't they follow the lead of the peace-prize judges, who know not to let technicalities about being true to the meaning of the award get in the way of good headlines?In fact, despite its dreary name, mechanism design is a hugely important area of economics, and underpins much of what dismal scientists do today.
It is a mistake to use dark matter and dark energy as an accomplishment of how much science knows because scientists don't know what dark matter and dark energy are.
In theory, hunting could be limited, he said, but Ebola presents a much greater problem, especially since scientists do not know what animals harbor the virus.
We've got a unique resource here, which could be delivering advances in everything from new drugs to clean energy storage, but it's sitting dormant for much of the year because scientists don't have the funds to keep the doors open.
