May 22, 2004

Long time no see

It's been a while since my last post, my frontpage was blank for sometime and I didn't notice 'til now. I had to attend a conference a few weeks ago and I had a number of presentations to do since -- hence, the lag. I do have to comment on a very memorable moment that occurred during the conference that I attended. The conference was at NCI in Frederick, MD and without naming names, one of the presenters, who happened to be a very reputable and respected investigator in his field, presented a topic that was highly contentious. After his presentation, the roundtable discussion and question and answer section was inundated and biased with comments and questions on his work -- not much was said about the work of other presenters. The scientist was at the end of it visibly annoyed with the audience's consternation of his work. I sat quietly on one corner of the room and all the while I debated whether or not I envied his position. A number of scientists in the past have made their mark in history because of their seminal work in changing the de facto paradigm of the times. The observations made by this scientist may create one of those moments. I, in some way, wished that I could be fortunate enough to experience what this scientist was experiencing. Although, all of his work could be just bunk, but only time will tell.

Posted by johnvu at May 22, 2004 03:08 PM
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