gjm comments on What is your true decision metric? A look at medicinal chemists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 28 November 2012 02:45:48AM *  4 points [-]

The blog from which that's taken is frequently interesting and amusing. In particular, the author's occasional series of "Things I won't work with" is very nice. [EDIT: Where by "nice" I mean "amusing but intermittently disgusting and/or downright terrifying".]

Comment author: gwern 28 November 2012 04:42:58AM 2 points [-]

I've found his blog a very useful source for a long time about systematic problems & biases in science.

Comment author: evand 28 November 2012 04:06:01AM 0 points [-]

"Things I won't work with" is wonderfully humorous! It continues to remind me of John D. Clark's Ignition!, which is a delightful survey of liquid rocket propellant chemistry, in all its hazardous glory circa 1960 (which is really most of it -- there hasn't been much chemistry work in liquids since then). Print copies are hard to find, but Google will probably get you the PDF that floats around.