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The Chaos Science

Today I will talk about how to do science or rather how not to do it.

To all the people who DO NOT make a living surrounded by tubes and perhaps pipettes not interested in anything, anything you say so then you can take a break to look at and do not continue reading but as you discover something interesting or scary who knows? about us.

Does Science as a well oiled gear?

Here we go. Not what is your experience in regard to the organization, if you consider yourself sorted in general or if you are of those who take longer than half an hour to find the keys when leaving home, and you can also think that something so, so banal little or nothing to do with something as serious and important as doing science but I hope that at the end of this article veais why I think the disorder is a vice so disastrous for the progress of the investigation.

Disordered ... yes, how crazy? ... Not always

The old cliché suggests the idea that the scientist is someone confused, forgetful and unlikely to have or bring order to their surroundings. Topicazo Another Hollywood? From my personal experience and from what I have seen around me is an uncomfortable reality, but certainly not widespread real. Laboratory notebooks with illegible notes, files or data formats with notations incomprehensible even for those who created them, covering samples of ice in the freezer since the last century, often without identification and no one dares to shoot because maybe its rightful owner does know what they mean and find them again someday (that, if the rightful owner is still in the continent / hemisphere).

In matters of technical equipment and not speak: the instructions stored in a drawer since the day it was installed, the maintenance and cleaning has to deal with someone, it is assumed, but never just be clear who. Collect and organize or clean laboratory benches is an annual task, and the arrival of the Magi but in reverse (because more to look forward at least he gives is lazy) and then also tend to appear seamless to identify gift .

Fortunately, some labs are trying to remedy this situation by organizing shifts for cleaning for example, or by assigning responsibility for equipment and also some people it is intended that at least there is a centralized database of both protocols such as media and reagents among others.

not run much faster progress is made (if not to be told the hare of Aesop's fable ) and in this case even worse because the result of the lack of method is that the end may occur, for example, that one has to repeat experiments because it recalls the order samples and controls, or lack of planning control experiment did not include that essential for the experiment is round (and credible results.) Also, do not forget that some experiments require long, long time (months even) and a repeat is not a joke.

In theory it should be easier to follow some minimum rules of conduct to avoid both loss of control, especially since is but an obstacle to it that all bosses expect: efficiency and productivity, what happens is that doing science, carrying out the experiments that produced these results deserve the Nobel prize at least absorbs so many resources, leaving little time (or win) available to archive, organize, catalog, planning ...

why February is my intention to try to bring some order to my new (and highest to date) Realm of Chaos. And for those who enjoy irony as much as I tell them that my lab is the typical example where the equation + Germany = efficient organization is not satisfied.
How cool is that topics not being met?

Note: I could not resist to put the video game based on the Saint Seiya, memories of childhood, blame my amygdala (the brain)