Reply #53: They're (mostly) not microbiologists.

[Sufi Marmot]

For the umpteenth time. :eyes:

You personally may not have said they were world class, but every time that "dead world-class microbiologist" list is cut, pasted, and posted by someone who doesn't know any better (or someone who doesn't care, because the truth interferes with their pet theory...), it propagates misinformation. If people insist on reposting misleading and/or utterly false information, why shouldn't I correct it?

You claimed that these deaths weren't suspicious. You must have a low threshold for inquisitiveness. Given that a) I'm a biologist, and b) I actually bothered to investigate what many of these people work on, your ad hominem attacks are baseless.

Again, none of the people listed in this post that I am replying to would I consider "world class" biologists. Doesn't mean they weren't good scientists, but none of them were of Wiley's stature.

Reading these lists of "dead microbiologists" is both funny and sad, since it's obvious that the people compiling such lists have absolutely no knowledge of either biology itself, or how biological reseach is conducted in the modern era. If they did, they wouldn't be labeling these people "world class microbiologists", and they wouldn't get excited about "DNA sequencing". Here's a hint, nearly every modern molecular biology lab uses DNA sequencing in some capacity.

So how many people whose occupation relates to the computer industry died prematurely/unexpectedly within the same period?

-SM