That was six years ago. I had two meetings with the prof, although one was about something else. His defense is that he wanted to make the class 'relevant' and interesting to young students. That's probably it there - I was 36 and doing post-bacc work to translate a BA in Japanese into a ticket to the ecology and epidemiology phd program (which I did, mostly due to the GRE).
How's this - in the lecture on inbreeding, he showed famous people who married their cousins. One of the pictures was in a Hellenic style, and labeled "Mohammad". The man had issues.
The other meeting was about a test question: how do you prove that Roundup didn't cause mutations in weeds leading to resistance. The answer was 'show the genes are pre-existing'. That didn't work for me - scientifically speaking, you've only proven the genes were pre-existing, but you haven't disproven that the poison caused an identical mutation. You needs stats and a p value, too.
How's this - in the lecture on inbreeding, he showed famous people who married their cousins. One of the pictures was in a Hellenic style, and labeled "Mohammad". The man had issues.
The other meeting was about a test question: how do you prove that Roundup didn't cause mutations in weeds leading to resistance. The answer was 'show the genes are pre-existing'. That didn't work for me - scientifically speaking, you've only proven the genes were pre-existing, but you haven't disproven that the poison caused an identical mutation. You needs stats and a p value, too.
