Top ten things that Biologists WOULD NOT want you to know

1. We claim that we work for 10-15 hours per day. In actuality, considering the down time that we have, our working hours do not cross 8 hours per day.

2. Sometimes we intentionally do not present our negative results, which would compromise the quality of the journal we are about to publish or down-play the significance of our work.

3. Many a time our motto is just to publish research papers and do not care a straw whether or not our research directly/indirectly aids in enriching the human lives.

4. Like in politics, in Science also ‘connections’ are very important for scientists to succeed.

5. In the name of attending conferences and exchanging ideas with fellow scientists, we travel around the world and have the pleasure of visiting places.

6. Success in Science is not always positively correlated with Intelligence/Creativity. Serendipity and Zemblanity play their part in grooming scientists’ future.

7. We strongly believe in Evolution, and make fun of theists when they say god created this world in 7 days.

8. Some of us do consider research just like any other job, and work very professionally without having an iota of passion for Science.

9. Doing Science is a rat race, so unfortunately sometimes unethical paths are chosen to achieve the desired goals.

10. In general, hypothesis precedes observations. But in Science most of the times we do experiments first. And having obtained interesting results, we beguile fellow scientists by saying that we had a hypothesis and we verified that by performing experiments.

P.S. I reckon some Scientists do not practice or believe in any of the ten things (let alone all) I have mentioned. I sincerely respect and salute them.