08 Mar '07 08:01>
Originally posted by amannionAbsolutely. I totally agree, but I think that a good scientist would at least say to himself, "why do I believe this?". If they have a different standard for what they believe within work, and what they believe religiously, then to earn the title "good scientist" they'd have to be able to justify it logically and rationally.
I think you forget how easy it is to quarantine aspects of our lives from others. It's so easy for anyone to hold contradictory views and not really question the nature of those contradictions.
Scientists are not some sort of superhumans (yourself included) - they are just people like everyone else, who eat and sleep and love and worry and laugh and drink and ... so on.