Media stereotypes of scientists run the gamut from megalomaniacs out to conquer the world ― think Dr. No ― to affable, if zany, absent-minded professors ― Flubber, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, etc. A more knowledgeable analyst, Dr. Steve Caplan, associate professor of biochemistry and biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, concludes that for the most part, scientists are quite normal and experience the same stress and anxieties that afflict the rest of us. Are Scientists Normal People?
Friday, February 15, 2013
Are Scientists Normal?
Media stereotypes of scientists run the gamut from megalomaniacs out to conquer the world ― think Dr. No ― to affable, if zany, absent-minded professors ― Flubber, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, etc. A more knowledgeable analyst, Dr. Steve Caplan, associate professor of biochemistry and biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, concludes that for the most part, scientists are quite normal and experience the same stress and anxieties that afflict the rest of us. Are Scientists Normal People?
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