No, my last name starts with a “K”. I could try a “T”, I suppose.

I checked out your website and you don’t look familiar to me. But then again, I have spotty facial recognition skills. Your last name sounds familiar though…

Phil, thanks for sharing that. It is a lovely ode to all things scientific.

I hope so, Allyson! You are a jewel! (but not a Jewel)

I too have had my run-ins with cranky, poorly-socialized scientists. I dislike them and seek to avoid them whenever possible. But Allyson not only tolerates them, she actually has a fondness for them. She is some kind of special.

*and Phil, too, not to be too sycophantic.

But… but… teh Hollywood tells me that scientists turn us into zombies or make us all the dead! I can no trust the Hollywood???

You say it like zombification is a bad thing! Come on, you’ll love it. Think of the time you’ll save showering alone!

No, Hollywood is right. Allyson is clearly just a part of the coverup. “They” got to her.

Her descriptions of her scientists are so like the folks I used to work with it almost made me homesick for the lab!

(looks around for a grad school to go back to…)

Neat article. I think the reason I like scientists is that they literally make the world a better place (there are some other professions I can think of that might not do that as much).

There are some people close to me that got sick and probably would have had a very bad outcome if it wasn’t for the research and work that doctors and scientists have cumulatively done.

Which scientists were “decidedly unpleasant” towards you, Phil? P. Z. Myers? Or are you referring to those bloody creationist ’scientists’?

Having had my own run-ins with hundreds of scientists, which have ranged the gamut from life-changing to decidedly unpleasant, I cannot say that I have unbounded love for all scientists the way Allyson Beatrice clearly expounds in that post.

Which scientists were “decidedly unpleasant” towards you, Phil? P. Z. Myers? Or are you referring to those bloody creationist ‘scientists’?