I hated this book. Worse for me than the precocious kid and the talking dog was Elizabeth herself. She was a complete nonsense caricature and scientific Mary Sue.
Like, at one point she learns to physically row by writing out equations, then is just suddenly amazing at it? Like, even if that was actually possible rather than irritating nonsense, i’m a microbiologist and wouldn’t know the first thing about equations for boats because that’s physics, a completely different scientific discipline. Food science and her research topic of abiogenesis are again, COMPLETELY different areas.
I utterly hate the stereotype that science people just know all science and talk about and do science all the time. Noone in the history of the world has ever asked someone to pass them the ch3cooh oh silly me I meant acetic acid oh woops I mean VINEGAR. Oh my days I wanted to throw the book across the room every time she did something like that, it was so DUMB.
Also, was it just me that found the supposedly feminist and empowering cooking show quite patronising to women? Like hey women! You know how you have nothing going on in your lives except cooking? Well you’re bad at that too! Luckily I, a not like other girls SCIENTIST, is here to teach you how to be better because now you’ll call it NaCl instead of salt like normal people.
I hated this book. Worse for me than the precocious kid and the talking dog was Elizabeth herself. She was a complete nonsense caricature and scientific Mary Sue.
Like, at one point she learns to physically row by writing out equations, then is just suddenly amazing at it? Like, even if that was actually possible rather than irritating nonsense, i’m a microbiologist and wouldn’t know the first thing about equations for boats because that’s physics, a completely different scientific discipline. Food science and her research topic of abiogenesis are again, COMPLETELY different areas.
I utterly hate the stereotype that science people just know all science and talk about and do science all the time. Noone in the history of the world has ever asked someone to pass them the ch3cooh oh silly me I meant acetic acid oh woops I mean VINEGAR. Oh my days I wanted to throw the book across the room every time she did something like that, it was so DUMB.
Also, was it just me that found the supposedly feminist and empowering cooking show quite patronising to women? Like hey women! You know how you have nothing going on in your lives except cooking? Well you’re bad at that too! Luckily I, a not like other girls SCIENTIST, is here to teach you how to be better because now you’ll call it NaCl instead of salt like normal people.
GAH!