Re: Emerging of New Scientific Fields (example: biochemnestry)

From: The Sceptical Chymist (polyzoni_at_otenet.invalid)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:19:26 +0200

-----Original Message-----
From: Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net>
Newsgroups: sci.bio.misc,sci.chem
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: Emerging of New Scientific Fields (example: biochemnestry)

>Johnson wrote:
>>
>> "When can we speak of a new field? When does the era of a specialism
>> (of the mother-science) end? When a new field is born?"
>>
>> Dear readers,
>>
>> I am looking for ideas and theories to describe the emerge of new
>> scientific fields.
>>
>> For instance: biochemnestry.
>
>"biochemnestry"?

Yep...

Biochemical Amnesty

Kostas

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is
invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my 7th
floor apartment.
Alan D. Sokal

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