> “It seems a lot like diagnosis,” said Logan McCarty, Harvard’s director of physical sciences education, who taught the second semester. >“That cognitive skill — inductive generalization from specific cases to something you’ve never seen before — that’s something you learn in orgo.”

I wonder why people can get away with saying stuff like this without evidence. I'd be inclined to think that the diagnosis boosting from orgo is minor at best and the time used would be far better spent actually learning to make diagnoses.