Articles by Eric Jakobsson

Regarding your "Career Outcomes" Opinion article,1 it may be worth noting that the period of time covered in this study coincided with the emergence of interdisciplinary fields merging biology with more traditionally quantitative disciplines: bioengineering, biophysics, and computational biology. This has had a couple of consequences. One is that some faculty positions in traditional life science departments have been taken by individuals whose advanced degrees are in engineering and physical sc

Avraham Sonenthal's letter (The Scientist, July 7, 1997, page 10) repeats a common misconception that science can say nothing about history because you can't do experiments on history. Therefore, he concludes that the issue of creationism and evolutionary theory with respect to the development of contemporary life is a matter of faith. This is just wrong. The essence of testing scientific hypotheses is to evaluate the predictions that these hypotheses make about what one observes. These observa