Here are the subjects our reporters enjoy covering the least

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You might think being a science writer is a dream job, one that means spending all day learning new things about a seemingly endless sweep of interesting fields. And, to an extent, you'd be right. But in other ways, it's also a place where dreams go to die. Things you think should be fascinating-things that, in some cases, you've dreamed about knowing more about for much of your life-turn out to be staggeringly dull.

So, forgive your science-writing staff if they finish a week wanting to stab the first scientists they see-even (or perhaps especially) if that's themselves. To keep the violence to a minimum, we're taking the opportunity to vent a bit about the fields we thought we loved, but have turned out to disappoint us.

Writers' names have been removed from their contributions to protect the not-entirely-innocent. We're sure you'll figure it out anyway.

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