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Category: Humor • Medicine • Surgery
Posted on: July 4, 2009 9:00 AM, by Orac
While I"m on a Mitchell and Webb kick and it's still a slow blogging holiday weekend, this isn't about homeopathy but it does skewer a certain profession:
You know, I can sort of picture Dr. Michael Egnor (a younger version, of course) being the brain surgeon in this sketch...
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I know several rocket scientists and I don't find them to be particularly smarter than any other scientists.
Posted by: The Science Pundit | July 4, 2009 10:09 AM
Hah! I beat you to it. And with the same post title too!
Posted by: angry doc | July 4, 2009 10:28 AM
I have to admit that I could see the punchline of that sketch coming in the last few seconds, but it was funny anyway.
There's another Mitchell and Webb sketch on the Friendly Atheist blog: http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/07/03/finally-pareidolia-we-can-get-on-board-with/
Posted by: J. J. Ramsey | July 4, 2009 10:39 AM
Excellent. Sending that to my rocket scientist relative. Yea, there's one in my family.
Posted by: Barbara | July 4, 2009 11:29 AM
as a neurologist, I find it hard to believe that rocket scientists can be more arrogant than brain surgeons.
Posted by: David | July 4, 2009 1:32 PM
As a former aerospace engineer who has done some rocket research, I'm not more arrogant .... unless it is Dr. Egnor. (though I do find dealing with multi-varible nonlinear second order differential equations fun and entertaining, but that is just me)
But that is because I have fun reading what a neurologist's comments on Dr. Egnor's writings:
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?s=egnor
As and aside, I recently listened to all of Dr. Mark Crislip's podcasts. In one of them he takes a dig at neurosurgeons. I don't remember which one in particular, but all of his quackcasts are entertaining:
http://www.quackcast.com/
Posted by: HCN | July 4, 2009 1:50 PM
I really need to proofread better. My excuse is I engineer, I no like grammar or spelling.
Posted by: HCN | July 4, 2009 1:53 PM
Homeopathy. It's not exactly medicine, is it?
:-)
Posted by: Rogue Medic | July 4, 2009 7:50 PM