I think I will start calling it “The Religion of the Computer Model”.
“I think I will start calling it “The Religion of the Computer Model”.”
Funny story. I had recently started working as a Microbiology researcher at a large industrial research lab when the Manager of a different group invited me to attend a seminar for a potential new hire. I listened to the seminar and afterwards the Manager came by to ask me what I thought. The seminar was about modeling the growth of a bacterial culture under various conditions. I told him that I wasn’t a fan of modeling, that I had never seen one worth a damn and it was easier and faster just to run a few experiments to get the data you need. Furthermore in any case you still need to run the experiments to confirm the model. He got a funny look on his face and told me that he was a modeler. Awkward.