Real-life scientist: hugely specialised, often to the point where even side-fields of the same broad discipline can't parse each other's data TV scientist: "You need someone to analyse DNA? Good that I'm an astrophysicist, just give me a moment to finish hacking into the CIA"
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Real-life scientist: "My funding is running out, better spend the next 1,000 hours applying for grants" TV scientist: *taps button, leans back in chair* "I just hacked the Bank of America and stole $100 million. Back to the mass spectrometer for me!"
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Spot on!
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w/o checking I'm thinking it doesn't include when pipetting radioactive solutions
so there's that
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Correction: whole night, because someone else was using the centrifuge during the day.
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Remember that the same principle applies to any professional represented on TV. It’s almost as if TV is complete fiction!
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Pipetting - I spent at least five years of my life transferring liquids from one tube to another with pipettes/
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This one really hurts.
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TV scientist: "I have never seen a pipette, here are endless perfect samples. SCIENCE"