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- Jul 30, 2017
First of all, I salute you for your work.I'm doing a degree in genetics and the things we can do are magically mundane. I was working on a paper that assesed the use of RNA therapy to directly alleviate cystic fibrosis. It was some complicated shit, but the end result of years of working tirelessly was barely even a 4% reduction in symptom presentation in the patients. Blob is the sort of guy that would scoff at that progress as being 'nothing' then 'REEEEEEEE' about why we lack Tricorders or some other piece of Star Trek bullshit medicine. He is seemingly incapable of understanding that things don't happen all at once because of some messianic genius, but because of day in and day out hard work of lots of people over time.
Second of all, You're exactly right and I would like to go back to that /tv/ post about how "smart is magic" and amend it to how Bob (and people like him) see science.
The smarties in the room just stare at the problem (they might write a lot of gibberish on the chalkboard if it's REALLY complex, like inscribing runes to invoke the magic) and eventually they'll go "ah ha!" and then produce the solution that saves the day. Which is done in stories for narrative convenience but in no way reflects reality. (See Tony Stark in Endgame in probably the most bullshit scene that ticked me off.)
It's ironic because House MD was probably the closest we got to accuracy on this.
>Try 1. Did that work?
>No.
>Try 2. Did that work?
>No.
>Try 3....
etc
Instead they all believe:
A - "What if we put the thing with that other thing?"
B - "Are you dumb? That would never work."
*B thinks*
B - "Unless we applied the bullshit and add a third thing then it would do something close, but not exact to your idea!"
Oh wait, RedLetterMedia already put what I'm trying to say in sketch form already.