Life Science Tools of the Trade

Duke University’s Continuing Studies (not connected with Duke University Medical Center) will host Dr. Masaru Emoto on November 13th, 2006.  Dr Emo will present his “groundbreaking research” (never published in a peer-reviewed journal) on how water crystals will be beautiful or ugly depending upon whether the thoughts directed at them were positive or negative.

I haven’t paid to see a scientist give a seminar and don’t think I’ll pay $22 to get in the door to hear this snake-oil salesman present his new age nonsense. Apparently this mystical mumbo jumbo can be achieved through prayer, music or by attaching written words to a container of water.

My personal lab situation:

Prayer: I’ve got that covered with my collection of authentic Mexican religious candles (from Superiora Taqueria #2) which hover above my bottle of water on the mini-shrine. All systems go!

Music: Hopefully, my water likes “16 Great Truck Drivin’ Hits” and other twangy Americana music. Good vibrations here!

Taped messages: Wow! I haven’t tried that approach, but I’m thinking about a two-fold method using both positivity and negativity. I’ll label my bottle of water “Lucky Water” and send out plasmid requests to competitors diluted in “Unlucky Water”!

I know the initial tone of this blog probably sounded very cynical but upon further reflection I think Dr. Emote may be on to something! It just isn’t science.

just keeps growing and growing. So, I’d heard that Fisher and Thermo Electron had merged. The new company, Thermo Fisher Sci, is suppose to dominate the life science industries. The projected revenue is staggering.

I guess what I didn’t know was how many companies Fisher owned even before this merger. ABgene… Fisher owns it. Cellomics… Fisher owns it. HyClone, Dharmacon and Pierce. Yup, Fisher owns all of them.

If Fisher keeps merging with and buying other companies, they’ll own everyone!