Bullshit blues

I got inspired to write this post after reading an article published on the BBC website entitled A bust-up between mathematicians is fuelling fears that AI could undermine science, that I feel compelled to demolish. The piece is written by a journalist who, according to his resume on the self-advertising platform known as Wikipedia, studied physics for 3 years. That would have given him a Bachelor or M.Sc. – clearly not a Ph.D., therefore someone like most M.D.: without first hand experience of scientific research. In other words, he didn't do the apprenticeship of research, and he may not have reached the academic level required to start this kind of apprenticeship. Too bad. The article opens by quoting yet another entrepreneur surfing the AI wave. "Collecting DNA to speak the language of biology?" What is the language of biology? Of which branch of biology dors the man speak of? Cellular biology? One of the four forms of epigenetic? Ethology may be? Or is it psychology? Or…

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