Academic science in fiction
Feb. 8th, 2008 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksBeing biology and chemistry stupid for the most part, I tend to give movies, books and TV shows a pass when it comes to their science. Those CSI shows? I'm pretty sure those machines don't spit out results that fast, but won't quibble about it. The Biochemist, on the other hand, is not nearly as tolerant as I am.
I'd forgotten how much suspension of disbelief was required with respect to the science in Y: The Last Man, and forgot to warn TB. And thus I received this message from her:
There was more, but it was profane and capslocky, so I've left it off. I'm hoping that she'll like Pride of Baghdad, which doesn't include any science at all.
I'd forgotten how much suspension of disbelief was required with respect to the science in Y: The Last Man, and forgot to warn TB. And thus I received this message from her:
Dr. Mann is 31, and she a) already has tenure b) at Harvard teaching "biotech" and c) was using funding obtained via Harvard (b/c universities generally have to sign off on shit, part of the contract, which includes stuff like copyright/patent rights going to the school) to do human cloning? My bullshit meter is PEGGED, okay?
There was more, but it was profane and capslocky, so I've left it off. I'm hoping that she'll like Pride of Baghdad, which doesn't include any science at all.
