Chemistry and Culture: Chemistry as the Universal Image of Science

The website for the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression had this up on their website today.

I have argued in the past that the only scientific discipline that is visually recognizable as science is chemistry and this is another example, not only of the lab coated chemist but also the Erlenmeyer flask as universally recognizable symbols for science. It is a cute reversal of the observer being observed but also confined.