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That's fair enough. I guess I'm still against viewing it as a meme mostly because it kind of comes with the territory of being moderately famous and having a voice that is heard by a lot of people with differing opinions.

Having finished a humanities MA recently, I would hope science spokesmen wouldn't turn to liberal arts as a competitor towards their fields. But when NDT makes claims like this it throws the idea of having cross-discipline coordination out the window and reinforces the whole "STEM GOOD HUMANITIES BAD" motto I've been used to hearing since starting post-secondary education. It's very easy to see moments like this and then form a bias for pretty much anything else he says.

Seriously though, come on Neil...why do you think scientists have small background in liberal arts? Probably because most of them went through a liberal arts college--they still teach scientists how to write! (On the flipside, humanities majors still have to take science courses as well)

Moments like those make me want to meet him in person and try to get him to keep some of that stuff to himself. It would go a long way to promote science across disciplines if he didn't say shit like that.

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