Or as Watson said in his Double Helix, Scientists, Doctors and Engineers. Specifically Watson remarked upon a possible failure in his description of DNA:
Maurice (Wilkens) refused to get excited. My repeated refrain that DNA could fall at any moment sounded too suspiciously like Francis (Crick) in one of his overwrought periods. For years Francis had been trying to tell him what was important, but the more dispassionately he considered his life, the more he knew he had been wise to follow up his own hunches. As the waiter peered over his shoulder, hoping we would finally order, Maurice made sure I understood that if we could all agree where science was going, everything would be solved and we would have no recourse but to be engineers or doctors.
Watson would repeatedly restate his dislike of physicians and engineers, not to mention his even lower appreciation for surgeons. He was, after all, a scientists, he made the science, and did not follow it. Had he and Crick followed the science they would have been a doctor or an engineer and DNA would not have been understood.
So do we now have any scientists to follow the science or are we awash in doctors, engineers and worse politicians and lawyers! It appears the latter. Pity.
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