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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 60. Why Don’t Real Researchers Heed Sci-Fi Warnings Against Mad Science?
Description: “This time, it will be different,” quips the mad scientist. “I’m not one of those idiots who don’t know what they’re messing with. I’m an enlightened individual who’s going to accomplish what’s never been done before!” Or so the thinking goes. We see these characters all the time in stories. But increasingly, we’re seeing this mad scientist attitude in the real world. Why is life imitating the very art that tried to warn us?
Mad scientist motives at the dawn of Narnia
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