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Again, you malign the entire field with such unsubstantiated claims that "the experience did not". You do not know the field. You do not know what people do in the field. You simply don't have the knowledge to make that assertion. This is identical to the casual arrogance of the smart but uninformed, which is why I keep reading that interpretation into your comments. You have said nothing which convinces me that you are informed, even to a undergraduate level, of the field. Drug discovery is a highly multidisciplinary field with "outsiders" constantly entering the field. There is no wall. There are large pits. Some look enticing. It's taken a lot of time, toil, tears, and cash to map out the pits. Many of them are well-known, via papers and books, or word-of-mouth. New ones keep appearing as we map thing out. This is like a newcomer from out of state who arrives, and before even looking at a map exclaims "you yokels should go that way, because this looks like region X back home, and we've figured out how to get through X in the 1970s." Only, the locals respond "yes, new people often think that, but we figured out back in the 1920s how to get through the area, have since built a four-lane highway through it, and if you go that way you're going to fall into quicksand." The idea that an outsider with different experience can provide fresh insight is enticing. But software developers with agile experience who work in drug discovery is not an outsider view. My reaction isn't "us vs. them", it's annoyance over people who don't do their homework. |