hypothetical discrimination

[concertinette]

 If someone were known to have super-powers, such as zapping things with heat rays from his eyes, or even something seemingly innocuous like super-speed, that person would have a hard time keeping a job as a scientist, since any data collected would automatically be suspect

Comments

[concertinette]

Surprising how many superheroes got their powers in lab accidents, but then you wonder if they'd actually be suitable to keep their jobs afterwards...
Amazing the stuff I can come up with on a Monday afternoon when I'm all coffeed and awake but can't seem to pay attention at work.

[shadefell]

Considering that results need to be reproducable, as long as another scientist with different or no powers can reproduce the experiment's results, shouldn't it not matter?

[concertinette]

Well, that relies on somebody without superpowers also having the time and grant money to do the experiment, which, sadly, is not really a truth of science policy - you have to have double-plus super exciting results before anybody's interested in finding out if your results are reproducible or not. I always check whether I can reproduce my results, but that only screens out accidental error, not systematic problems like superpowers or a broken detector.