Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer

mernil sends in an article from the NYTimes that casts a glance at a study done in the Czech Republic (natch) on what divides the successful scientists from the duffers. "Ever since there have been scientists, there have been those who are wildly successful, publishing one well-received paper after another, and those who are not. And since nearly the same time, there have been scholars arguing over what makes the difference. What is it that turns one scientist into more of a Darwin and another into more of a dud? After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex, and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists — beer."

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Re:what is cause and effect?

[Anonymous Coward]

But in no way does this explain the teetotaling creation science type scientists.

Re:what is cause and effect?

[Anonymous Coward]

But in no way does this explain the teetotaling creation science type scientists.

Some of those people are clearly leaders in their field, it's just that their chosen field has a lot more to do with creation than science.