2002-04-17 1:03 p.m. Things I now regret saying at the annual meeting of the Association for Scientific Progress during the Q & A period following my speech [culled from the Association's transcripts]: 1. "Well, that depends, I suppose, on your definition of 'monstrosity.'" 2. "Are we men, or are we a buncha babies? Because from up here, I can practically smell the urine in the diapers you must be wearing underneath your labcoats." 3. "I wouldn't call it 'playing God' so much as ... I don't know. 'Borrowing God's car keys without asking and making sure to top the tank off on the way back so he'll never suspect.'" 4. "Yes, next year I'm hoping that my contribution to the symposium can be a short presentation about the necessity of hiring armed help to keep a lab secure and the-- and how important these guards are when the general populace, which I must say is stereotypically ignorant of the goals of science, catches wind of certain experiments and procedures that, while terribly, terribly important, may offend local mores and sensibilities." 5. "Fools! Fools! You don't know who you're messing-- [unclear because of crowd noise]" |
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