Because there are so many things, people are going to get many things wrong.
Boy, it’s a good thing we have biology undergrad dropouts to correct them! Reasonable default: the distinguished professor is probably right, and the undergrad dropout probably hadn’t thought about the problem hard enough.
Physicists have this problem too (http://xkcd.com/793/), but at least physicists have a track record for insightful, generalizable mathematical models (the Ising model is a good example).
Boy, it’s a good thing we have biology undergrad dropouts to correct them! Reasonable default: the distinguished professor is probably right, and the undergrad dropout probably hadn’t thought about the problem hard enough.
Physicists have this problem too (http://xkcd.com/793/), but at least physicists have a track record for insightful, generalizable mathematical models (the Ising model is a good example).