Friday, April 3, 2009

Why biologists are better than chemists

Because Babyfingers is just a worthless chemist, he doesn’t know about the fascinating things biologists are up to these days. What do chemists know, anyway? They’re just ruining the world, one nanotube at a time.

Biologists have discovered bacteria that use arsenic in photosynthesis. We’ve also found that those tricksy prions might actually be useful, after all.

We’re even contributing to the humanities: harnessing microorganisms to clean and preserve artwork. (Chemists, being philistines, would never do such a thing.)

And, of course, who are the people curing all your diseases? Biologists, of course. Researchers are engineering plants to produce anti-HIV protein.

Beat that, robots.

And by "robots" I mean "chemists".

3 comments:

  1. But biologists can't do this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7085092.stm

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  2. I hate to do it, but...
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/358822.stm

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  3. Damn it, and here I was trying to help. Well, at least chemists are the only ones who can make photographs...oh, wait: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2005/11/23/nat_sci/

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