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Old 03-June-2007, 10:40 PM
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Default 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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