AmishDude: I strongly disagree. Many make a very good living as trained (or possibly untrained) monkeys, conducting experiments.
You mischaracterize my post. Or are you trying to assert that unless everyone everywhere working in the sciences uses math then no one does?
Also a great scam: If the experiment works, you get a paper! If the experiment doesn't work, you get a paper!
I don't know what you mean by this "get a paper" thing. I get mine delivered in the morning; no experiments required.
An inability to fail is possibly the greatest scam of all.
True. How about this one: you pay me money, I tell you how to live your life down to the minutest detail. If you do everything I say, never contradict me, and keep paying me, you get a swell prize after you're dead.
"I'm not saying what you do is useless, I'm saying what you do is easy."
How about this one: you pay me money,
I'd rather have it taken by force, with accounting done every mid-April.
I tell you how to live your life down to the minutest detail.
I keep forgetting, should I eat bran and drink caffiene or both or some combination of them? It's so hard to keep up with "science" these days.
If you do everything I say, never contradict me, and keep paying me, you get a swell prize after you're dead.
One should have something to look forward to after the shuffling of the mortal coil, otherwise they'll realize in their dotage there's nothing left except to take out as many enemies out as possible. In fact, reason would command it.