第464页 He wasn't a member of the club

关于Nirenberg 和Matthaei 体外转录实验的意义，本书如此评价:
Avery's (就是做肺炎双球菌转化的那个)  proof that the transformating principle was DNA set the agenda of biology henceforth; Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA confirmed rather than concluded that agenda. But the question that Avery had put, Nirenberg and Matthaei began at last to answer.

然而在莫斯科会议上，他们的报告被彻底无视了，自始至终只有Meselson为之倾倒，并且事后把他们引见给Crick。Meselson对此事的评价是：
…there is a terrible snobbery that either a person who's speaking is someone who's in the club and you know him, or else his results are unlikely to be correct. And here was some guy named Marshell Nirenberg; his results were unlikely to be correct, because he was't in the club. And nobody bothered to be there to hear him
——这大约就是本章标题的来历了。

（所以我目前坚信成为一名法考题必需的素质前三项就是：network, network, network；而本书对于学术界人情世故的鞭挞入理其实绝不亚于任何一本好小说阿~）