• Question: What makes your work more useful than the other scientists?

    Asked by shayejgg to Daniel, Derek, Ian, Phil, Upul on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by staciedanicain.
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      Derek Mann answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      My work is no more useful than any other scientist, and with the way research funding is so critically appraised these days and so difficult to obtain there is really hardly any science done that is not useful.

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      Daniel Mietchen answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Probably nothing.

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      Ian Sillett answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Nothing. I don’t know enough about the research of the other scientists to have any details, but it must all be useful or they wouldn’t have funding to do it.

      What makes mine different is that I’m not an academic, so I don’t work in universities or do real cutting edge research. So I guess that means my work probably sees practical application a lot sooner and may get more widely used, more quickly.

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