26 April 2009

You're not alone, or alternately titled, There are More of us Than You Think

So I thought I'd start out with a show of solidarity. I often feel like I'm the only one making lunches complicated at work, but I prefer to think that we're just evenly distributed across the workforce.

According to a handy list on The Wikipedia, there are atleast two notable vegan scientists: String theorist Brian Greene, and molecular geneticist George Church. Clearly a list that needs some additions.

And while a slight tangent, there are a number of vegan M.D.s. To name a few there's Dr. Michael Greger (A former classmate of mine, actually, not to name drop), Dr. Neal D. Barnard, and T. Colin Campbell (of the China Study). There's even a whole organization for vegan physicians. Maybe soon there will be one for us too. Baby steps.

Like I said, needs some fleshing out (pun not intended). Anyone have additions? Signal-to-noise ration on my web searches is kind of low.

3 comments:

  1. Nice blog! The world needs more vegan scientists.
    As for M.D.s, off the top of my head there's also Dr.McDougall of the McDougall Diet.

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  2. Thanks Yeliz! Welcome to the site.

    I Had to look up Dr. McDougall. I think I've seen his cup soups at the store.

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  3. I'm currently applying to several MD/PhD programs this summer, so hopefully I will be up on your list some day! It's awesome to see I'm not the only vegan with a scientific side in the world.

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