Arrogance in scientific disciplines
Here's a poll for everybody: in what scientific discipline is arrogance the most prevalent?
My vote goes to: particle physics. I have observed a tendency for people in that field to think they know everything simply because they can draw and interpret Feynman diagrams. The irony is I used to be in that field (I was in the high-energy physics group in grad school way back in the 1990s).
What do y'all think?
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
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