Date Posted:09:14:16 12/31/99 Fri Author: Scullystar Subject: I wish I knew. She seems to know a little about everything. I would think that after all her years in med school she would have picked up a little of everything. In reply to:
Stardoe
's message, "Scientific Scully" on 02:10:05 12/30/99 Thu
> Hi everyone,
> It's my first time on this board. Does anyone know
> exactly what Scully's doctoring credentials are
> supposed to be? I was watching the Erlenmeyer Flask
> [last show season one] and Scully had to be told the
> characteristics of bacteria. Then when shown the DNA
> plastic thingies the tech asked her if she knew what
> she was looking at and she said "I think they are
> genes". Then in season 2 after the XF are shut down
> they send Scully off the Quantico to teach pathology/
> autopsies etc to other rookies. So if she can do
> autopsies and can lecture on the subject wouldn't she
> know the basic components of a bacterium? But I can
> accept that she mightn't know much about DNA etc.
> Although she would have to know something as she would
> scrape alot of specimens off her autopsy subjects for
> DNA testing.
>
> All that aside, what really shocked me about this ep
> was that Scully went and got someone else to do the
> tests on the stuff she and Mulder found. Now season
> 5/6/7 Scully would run off and do the tests herself or
> at least be in cohorts with the lab tech she'd get to
> do them. Also the recent Scully is very au fait with
> real scientific stuff. She didn't know about the
> kymera cells in Redux but she went and performed a
> Southern Blot test on herself all by herself in
> apparently record time. In Emily she was au fait with
> reading DNA results as she was with her own results in
> Redux.
>
> So has Scully been doing some update courses or
> something over the past few years? She just seemed
> surprisingly ignorant in season one compared to now.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Stardoe
