Friday, November 7, 2008

Oh Hello - Not So Perfect After All

It seems that a significant amount of the plastic equipment used in biological research can leach bioactive  substances into the liquids contained therein, or transferred thereby, that can alter the action of those liquids and bastardise the experimental results. Interesting, when the thought police have been loudly proclaiming that Science is the only way forward, that bad science is responsible for the end of the world as we know it. Perhaps they'll accept that the mainstream can be just as fucked up as the whack-jobs quoted in the hatchet job articles published to counteract some of the undoubted rubbish published in the press and elsewhere but I doubt they will. Some day we'll stop car crash journalism and examine interesting anomalies together in a spirit of cooperation but I doubt I'll live to see it. My lucky energy pendant has passed its sell by date.