Today...

[gnommi]

...I learned that I should probably should read my copy of New Scientist before I read Private Eye.

Ah... The craziness of science. And on that note:

Quote for today:
"Some of the money was spent in contacting the Russian mafia as we tried to clone mammoths. But you can't say that [on an expenses claim form] so we expensed it as money for cows for an experiment"
The legendary bullshitter Woo Suk Hwang. Reuters, 24 Oct; this quote New Scientist 4 Nov

Comments

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

Bullshitting really should be taught as a skill in University. I've not met a scientist yet who didn't have to bullshit on an almost daily basis to keep their funding/lab/equipment/home/car/body from dying to starvation.