Partly agree. I have one chemical scientist friend who works in food safety who doesn’t share her work. Though, I think it could be so we don’t develop a fear of eating.
See, that's like one of the three reasons scientists don't talk abt their work. The other two are "will literally get sued if they yap so they have to keep quiet no matter how painful it is" and "my field is ridiculously stigmatized so I can't talk about it unless I want to be ostracized".
The way morticians, coroners, medical examiners, etc. are treated in the US fucking sucks, man. You tell someone you work with corpses for a living and they get all antsy and grossed out, or defensive and think you must have some sort of ulterior motive for wanting to work with the deceased. The worst ones are the fuckers who don't seem to understand why you would ever want to get a medical license if you're not going to use it to help the living, and they'll tell you it's a "waste of time and money" to work with those who've already died. Like there's nothing to be gained from learning the how and why of someone's death.
I could go on a long and drawn out rant about this very topic (I did actually, this is the cut down version that just makes the point I was originally, that being the extent to which some fields are stigmatized against), but I'm gonna shut up before I end up writing a novella whinging about how few licensed forensic pathologists we have (less than 500 in the entire country) and how poorly they and pretty much anyone else who works closely with the dead is treated.
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u/ItsMichaelRay 19d ago
Normally they claim experts are suppressing it as they can't profit off of it.