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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-01-20:

"An alien anthropologist, armed with only our bestseller lists, might conclude that detectives rule the earth. This alien could easily inspect novels for months and never work out that humans do scientific research...If fiction is a mirror held up to our culture, scientists are its vampires. They lurk in the shadows, casting no reflection." -- Jennifer Rohn, from a PODium editorial in the Nature Podcast for January 17, 2008, bemoaning the fact that our popular culture has very few good fictional representations of scientists doing believable science.

http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/archivetranscripts.html]

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