Common Sense for the Biochemist

Just found yet another science biotech blogger (holy cow, they are coming out of the woodwork!) Peter's Weblog. In the below post, Peter comments about discussion occuring over at In The Pipeline.

Check out the interesting echange between Derek Lowe and a certain William Burke here. Look at the comments section.

I think it is fair to say with a high degree of confidence that people tend to fall into two of the following three categories (but cannot belong to all three simultaneously).

(You will have to go to his site to see what the three categories are). But it brings up a point I want to make. During these discussions between Derek Lowe and others (I would call them vitamin pushers, and very dangerous ones at that), the others have had many chances to post links to their sites. I couldn't resist, I just had to click on them. And you know, I'm probably not the only one that did that either. You may think these others are really not intelligent, repeating their unsubstantiated, rather idiotic claims (with convenient links to sites that back them up), but in reality, these guys are getting just what they want, their product in front of people.