Friday, January 19, 2007

Chemists are guilty!

I'm finding the reporting of the bomb plotters current trial quite sensationalist. I was in London on that particular day for a Palace garden party, and strangely, being right in the centre of London meant avoiding most of the surrounding chaos. I also suspect that Buckingham Palace was one of the safest possible places to be that day.
The focus by the prosecution on the fact that one of those on trial had studied chemistry seems a little tenuous. Does that make all of us who've studied chemistry equally as dangerous. Or more so if we've done PhDs!
The concept of reaction rates is fairly core to a large chunk of physical chemistry. And its not exactly difficult to extend these fairly basic theories of reaction rates, and exothermic reactions to explosives.
So does that make me guilty of being a chemist?

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