The human spirit of inquiry and man’s seemingly insatiable curiosity about the workings of the world around him are without question the foremost reason for the advanced stage of evolution that mankind finds itself in today.

mmmm…

Is it really so?

The doubt arises when I come across something like this post.

The NMR spectrum of ear wax that Arunn got from Dylan Stiles‘ blog reminded me of MR spectroscopy

…and another absurd research project involving MRI which made my jaw drop when I saw it a few years ago. Be sure to scroll down and read the acknowledgements.

You can browse through a large collection of hilarious medical research articles at KidneyNotes.

Incidentally, I first became aware of the wonderful world of medical bloggers after I accidentally stumbled into KidneyNotes some time last year.

In the memorable words of Einstein….

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?


One Response to “The Spirit of Inquiry.”  

  1. 1 Lakshmi

    Just to add to the nice links you have posted - Improbable Research

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