Guess what…. if there is a mitochondrial apoptosis inducing factor, you can bet there is a mitosis inducing factor.

The most common title for any post on this blog is “what the h*** is this.

This is an actual diagram, so bad, so unbelievably bad, that if you showed this to me as a microscopist i would laugh out loud when you told me what it represented. If i were an artist, I would laugh out loud saying, well, you missed the boat.  I am not being mean, or nasty, just sitting here incredulous at this red and green and blue thing that in no way depicts what it is supposed to represent.  it is fake-news.  it confuses, and undoes what one is trying to learn, it makes reading a scientific article much more difficult.  What is it about scientists that makes them unable to represent what they study in pictures…. what is it about artists that cannot comprehend the concepts that scientists are trying to portray.

This diagram is sjpposed to be a 3D representation of a tubular crista from a mitochondrion from muscle tissue….  i wont even tell you what it looks like to me…  There is fake 3D modeling of the membrane, and the red and white and blue lines…. are supposed to be WHAT?   I have looked at tens of thousands, maybe millions of mitochondria with TEM and this just makes me cringe.

Get with it you scientists…..  inform your artists and diagrammers, think about how and what you are asking them to represent, and check to see if it matches “reality”…pay attention to the figures in your publications lets you do something like this.