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I remember an after-dinner conversation with a friend, when I was an upper-level undergrad doing research in synthetic organic chemistry, and he was doing the same, as a graduate student at Cornell University. It turned out that we were having similar troubles with the same synthetic reaction. and we talked for two hours straight. His father - who was the librarian of a major medical research library - and brother, both commented at the end of the two hours that the only words they understood were "a", "and", and "the". The fact is - as you have admitted - is that you are entirely ignorant of the subject in question. If you were to think about this a bit more, you would come to the conclusion that you had no grounds on which to declare that the articles are nonsense - or not. You could ask a question, tell the author of your background - if any - in science, and then you might be pointed in the right direction in educating yourself, if you had the inclination, interest, and discipline to do the hard work to do so.

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4:55 PM
Mar 22, 2023