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Title text: Extending the logic a bit, Cartooning is the most scientific discipline of all.

Votey

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The more scientific a field of study is, the more it is driven by creativity and reason, as opposed to personal charisma.

Compare, for instance, the attractive early freudians, once popular in psychology, to the generally paunchy and funny-haired -cognitive

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Neuroscientists

Of today

Or consider the trajectory in economics, which runs from the dashing david ricardo to the yoda-like milton friedman. Note: Economists maintained personal attractiveness right up until the point at which paul samuelson mathematized the field

Fields such as ecology and sociology are in a period of slow uglification that will continue until deeper laws are discovered.

In this department, we use our knowledge of the "rigor-repulsion axis" to find the very best professors.

All right. I get it. You want to hire me for physics.

Fundamental physics.

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Except for my economist friends

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