Does studying science make you a better person?

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114. Studying is one thing...

working another.

In this article, science majors showed greater moral orientation.

My 25+ years of experience as a lab grunt has exposed me to an all-too-common moral disorientation and ugliness that afflicts self-acknowledged geniuses with an egocentric sense of entitlement and unjustified righteousness in all matters: scientific, philosophical, political, moral, sociological, oenological, etc.

The 'scientific community' is a profession which, like any other, has a sizable percentage of money and power grubbing jack-holes who will gladly make the working life of techs and grad students a veritable Hell if it serves their interest. I have also, unfortunately, worked for a P.I. who committed rather amateurish fraud (I WAS NOT INVOLVED), and so he suffered the punishment of having to leave academia to take a six-figure salary with Schering Plough as a 'bio-stitute'. The justice of that seems convoluted, at best.

A bit of advice to potential science majors: don't even start unless you plan to go all the way to PhD, and even then don't make too many plans unless you have knobby connections; or become an Administrator (so you don't have to actually work)- if you have no shame, a Project Director (so you can commit techs to an infeasible work load while taking credit for it); best of all, learn a real trade; you'll make more money, and end up more likely to 'do science'.