I Fucking Hate Geneticists - Tumblr Posts

if anyone ever wanted more reason to resent arthropod geneticists, there’s a single gene in a bug-infectious bacteria that controls the production of toxins which destroy the immune system and hydraulic muscle capacity in insects within 24 hours of infection. this gene is called the “mcf” gene.

wanna take a guess what that’s short for?

this fucking disease that is basically arthropod rabies depends on a gene called makes caterpillars floppy.

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.