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----------------------------------------------- Science’s Beef With A Beard All the most illustrious scientists had them. So why are they such bad news in the lab? by, Anne Casselman 05 March 2008 Darwin had a big one. As did Plato and Aristotle. Pythagoras most certainly had one, a long one judging from his statue. Leonardo da Vinci’s grew to illustrious lengths later in life. So why, if all these famous scientists had beards to stroke when being clever and contemplative, is sporting facial hair in the lab a big no-no? Well, it appears that facial hair provides a massive substrate on which bacteria can frolic and play. So much so that a bearded man wearing a face mask sheds significantly much more bacteria than a non-bearded man or woman. In fact the risk… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/sciences-beef-with-a-beard/

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