Posted: Nov 05, 2015 3:27 am
by ScholasticSpastic
bvanevery wrote:Maybe it's like a biologist coming to a forum and hearing a "biology" forum is about "bacteria and everything else about living things" ? Why a special emphasis on bacteria? As someone reasonably well versed in a particular academic discipline, it definitely makes me wince.

Bacteria are the predominant form of life on Earth. Definitely worth singling them out. If you're talking about biology and you're not talking about bacteria, are you even talking about biology? ;)