[jboggan]

Agreed, sadly. And nice username for the topic at hand - mind shooting me an email? This is a topic near and dear to my heart.

One time I had worked for about a year on some non-trivial enumerative calculations of pathways and flow patterns within metabolic networks. I was due to present these results, pre-publication, as a large multi-departmental talk. The night before the talk I was preparing some visuals and I noticed some oddness in the subnetworks. Upon further investigation I realized I had a bug in my code that reversed a significant number of edges. My conclusions were completely blown and redoing the calculations would take a week at minimum and I couldn't be sure that I would see the same phenomenon in the corrected network. My advisor told me to present that day anyway with mocked visuals and that I would probably get the same result with the real data. I refused on principle but that had repercussions.

Biologists as a whole don't have the best mathematical education and they seem to only appreciate math when it confirms their theories.