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Asked by Alan to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 13 Jun 2011.
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Rhys Phillips answered on 13 Jun 2011:
Um, ok that’s an interesting question. I don’t think I’d want either of those to be honest – I’d never pretend I was someone else to publicise my work and for the same reason, I wouldn’t want anyone else taking credit of the work I’ve done either!
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Helen Fletcher answered on 13 Jun 2011:
If no one else gets to use your work there would be no point in doing it in the first place!! It’s really important to publish your work and present it to other scientists at conferences so we can all learn from each other. If I had to let someone else take the credit for my work to get it published I think I would. At least the work would be out there – even if people didn’t know it was “mine”
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David Corne answered on 13 Jun 2011:
As a scientist I spend most of my time investigating questions that we don’t know the answer to. When I find an answer, I then look for another question that we don’t know the answer to. E.g. “Will this algorithm work well on a different collection of problems?” “Can my new data analysis technique find patterns in data with more than 10 million rows?” Most of the time the main part of being a scientist is getting a knack for asking an interesting and understandable question that can’t be answered. I think your question is interesting, so you are halfway towards showing the basic skills a scientist needs, but … please rephrase it in a way that makes sense to me!
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Sarah Cook answered on 13 Jun 2011:
I’d never pretend to be someone else so I’d say let Grandma get the glory!
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Ian van der Linde answered on 13 Jun 2011:
It would be nice if something I discovered was on the news, but it’s not something I try to go for deliberately. I wouldn’t let somebody take credit for my work, and I wouldn’t take credit for somebody elses work — there are rules!
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