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jake-head-shot.jpgJake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.

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When Readers Comment (1/30/08)

Category: Friday Rants
Posted on: January 30, 2008 11:00 AM, by NotoriousLTP

My Friday rant about intellectuals triggered lots of interesting comments, both positive and negative.

Treb:

I know it was a "rant", but, wow, is it ever funny to hear someone rant that they are open-minded and someone else is not. Sounds like a high school column about trying to be cool.

caynazzo:

I think many of your many generalizations apply equally to Med students.

And Jennifer Jacquet from Shifting Baselines:

Two wise men once wrote, "A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content." I liked that line (by Sokal and Bricmont in what was perhaps one of the longer modern rants: Fashionable Nonsense.

Fair enough. I am trying to limit being unfair to a single day in the week, so that it doesn't work its way into the other posts.

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