Untouchable Science

ITT, techniques that scientists use as barriers to entry to keep the common man from understanding and/or evaluating their claims.

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>>36
I don't get it either. I remember a bunch of chicks who wanted to be nurses or doctors or something (don't quite remember I guess) and had to take calculus. The reason for was being able to calculate blood flow for stuff like how long it would take a drug to distribute through the body and into what amounts. It seemed reasonable, but most of them were just planning on getting a passing grade and weren't really worried about learning and understanding the material. I was later told by another classmate that it didn't really matter for them because they would just be entering the values into a machine to find the stuff out.