Bioethics

Bioethics is the ceremonial concession that burdens scholars and politicians with the solemn yet tedious debate over the value of life. It cloaks the dilemmas between birth and demise in eloquent platitudes and a labyrinth of regulations. While demanding moral judgments, it secretly fears the day the discussion ever truly ends. In the end, it’s less about what is right and more about who can be persuaded, a never-ending cycle of moral brinkmanship.

bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the study that alternately mocks human curiosity and computational ruthlessness while staring at gene sequences. Drowning in so-called meaningful graphs and oceans of data, yet leaving truth to the mercy of a handful of significant p-values. It feeds researchers locked in nightly battles against pipeline errors with two main nutrients: coffee and bug reports. Claimed to unravel the mysteries of life, it all too often leads honest souls straight to the hell of unreproducible results.