Anyways… 1) I find it interesting and see that Chris notes this, there isn’t a single scientist of color or a female included. It’s offensive, even though I am a failed female scientist (i.e. left the bench), that there are no women included even though in the life sciences we represent half the PhDs in this country. 2) Several of us have been laughing recently about how marketing has started to adopt scientific lingo (genomics words, for example) to promote their products. When did science become sexy enough for marketing material but not for careers, etc. 3) Always remember that there are plenty of scientists doing more than bench work and failing to recognize the accomplishments of those talented scientists and thinkers that have left the bench and are shaping the rest of the scientific landscape is an oversight and part of the problem for why science is not sexy in general in our society.

We must find ways to communicate that there are more faces of science than articles like this reveal. When folks down in NC have asked K-6 students to draw pics of scientists they are all the same- mad scientists with smoking beakers- all white, all labcoated, all males (generally).

There is more to science than that. And we need to start telling people the whole story if we want people to realize it.

Actually, FC is a good guitarist and singer — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-r5MPa-ms

Charlie