Out of curiosity I typed 'scientist' into Google and then clicked on the
images tab. Of the 18 pictures (that showed people) from the 20
available
on the first page, 16 had people (or cartoons of people) in white coats.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=scientist&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um
=1&sa=N&tab=wi
I realise this probably isn't terribly surprising :-)
Jo
Jo Brodie
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Islet Project Coordinator, Diabetes UK.
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