I have no idea why that movie works - so many separate elements (lol) of it don't come together but I still love (double lol) it when it pulls together.

In a stroke of irony - my university's press dept just contacted me about some of my results and I'm being cagey because they're not officially published yet!

Definitely.

Hehehe - I've just come away from reading a condensed version of the Leveson report on the Guardian so this amused me greatly :)

End result: the onus is on everyone.

+100

I don't understand why the onus is on the scientists and not the media. Perhaps I've been watching the Leveson inquiry too closely of late.

Why is the onus on the scientist (who tend to be devoted to their work and highly specialised) to wait rather than the journalists (who are supposed to report the truth) to report a well researched story? Sensationalism in the news is far more deplorable to my (biased) eyes.

A couple of posts ago I started a thread complaining about the phrase 'science greed' or something like that. I was really amazed at how many people were defending the evil scientist trope - people coming up with Nazi scientists to defend the trope! I tend not to judge things by how the Nazis used it.

god kills a neohippie cybernetic kitten.

It pretty much has to - you couldn't have a skull subject to sustained high impacts or the brain would turn to mush. Keeping the head steady is a vital part of going fast.

I suggest you don't read some of the other replies to me. Your rage molecules might be agitated also ;)

The Blitz was a horrible thing - but the Brits are very proud of their 'Blitz Spirit'. I'd be surprised if such a depressing story would A - translate to the Blitz, B - be well received if it keeps its original everything.

I still think it's a bigger mistake to ignore all the wonder that science has brought in favour of an easy villain and a tired moral.

Interestingly my dad is hugely dyslexic. I don't have any problems, but I am prone to those 'corner of the eye' mistakes.

ex: The book Jurassic Park. It makes it very clear that the problem of JP was not the science behind it

Some humans are bastards, but science is a tool. The pursuit of knowledge is not inherently evil. But scientists in media (especially female scientists for some reason) are always doomed to failure.

Weyland Yutani are probably a good example but I'd say they exploit science for greed. In Alien there are no scientists. Nor Aliens. Or Alien 3. Alien 4 and Prometheus both fall into the 'scientists are evil, immoral and reaching too far' trope. It just bugs me. I'm a scientist. I've never once slept with any of my…

THAT'S THE BANANA! Well done - I couldn't find it anywhere :D

and scientific greed