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Ok, so it's one thing to talk about proper procedure, but lab coats
give me a visceral reaction. How long have we tried to get past the
"bald white guy in a lab coat" thing? Shirley's got a strong point,
it depends upon the field.
Beryl
At 10:58 AM -0400 7/13/06, Jonah Cohen wrote:
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>Not to get all stereotypical, but we always wear the white lab coats when
>doing chemistry demos. Having a white background makes color changing
>reactions easier to see. Plus it keeps messes off of your own clothes. (Know
>what will remove liquid latex from clothes? Me neither.)
>
>I'm just saying, the classics do sometimes have their uses.
>
>Jonah Cohen
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>Puh-lese no more lab coats. It depends on the field of course but
>unless you're working with radioactivity or it's cold, no grad student I
>know wears a lab coat. If they do, then it's *personalized*, it never
>looks like it just came back from the dry cleaners. If you've never
>been in or worked in a lab before, find out from someone who has, do the
>research. I hate seeing lab-coated scientists on TV looking through
>low-powered compound microscopes talking about the chromosomal
>abnormalities they see.
>
>Shirley
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