History Main / ForScience

* Alfred Nobel originally invented dynamite so that it would be safer to handle and for construction purposes such as blowing out tunnels and clearing debris. However, once people started figuring out how to use it as a weapon, Nobel created the Nobel Prizes when he was falsely reported as dead and his obituary described him as a reprehensible murderer-by-proxy. He also turned the Bofors company from mainly producing iron to making cannons and chemicals for firing them.

* The proclaimed motive of Lieblich Pharmeceuticals in ''{{Ever17}}''. Except it's really just For Money! and For [[spoiler:Immortality]]!

* ''JonnyQuest'' TOS. In "The Dragons of Ashida" and "Terror Island" the MadScientists create giant monsters without any concern for the consequences of their actions.

* The proclaimed motive of Lielich Pharmeceuticals in ''{{Ever17}}''. Except it's really just For Money! and For [[spoiler:Immortality]]!

* ''[[DawnOfTheDead Day of the Dead]]'' has Doctor Logan, who becomes so obsessed with teaching the [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]] good manners, he kills the soldiers guarding them to gather food with which to use positive reinforcement training on the zombies.

* One of the most horrifying examples in real life of this is Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi scientist who performed "experiments" at Auschwitz, and had a particular fascination with twins and other "abnormals", who he researched in order to find scientific proof of racial inferiority. He was known to perform amputations and major surgeries without anesthesia, and once sewed two twins together to make artificial Siamese twins. Said one prisoner of him, "Nobody ever questioned him -- why did this one die? Why did that one perish? The patients did not count. He professed to do what he did in the name of science, but it was a madness on his part."

** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=273 There's also this one.]] HIGH FIVE!

* [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=194 This strip]] from ''VGCats''. If you like ''WinnieThePooh'', [[CrossesTheLineTwice don't read it.]]

* Dr. Ashida in the ''JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "The Dragons of Ashida". He becomes obsessed with creating dangerous giant lizards without any concern for the consequences.

->"I felt it myself, the glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands. To release the energy that fuels the stars. To let it do your bidding. And to perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky, it is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is in some ways responsible for all our troubles, I would say, this what you might call ‘technical arrogance’ that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds."

->""I felt it myself, the glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands. To release the energy that fuels the stars. To let it do your bidding. And to perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky, it is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is in some ways responsible for all our troubles, I would say, this what you might call ‘technical arrogance’ that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.""
--> Nuclear physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson explains how it feels.

* Quoting verbatim from the distinguished nuclear physicist Freeman Dyson: ''"I felt it myself, the glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands. To release the energy that fuels the stars. To let it do your bidding. And to perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky, it is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is in some ways responsible for all our troubles, I would say, this what you might call ‘technical arrogance’ that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds."''
Also, the "physics' rock star" Richard Feynman one day said to the same Dyson, who was a good friend of his, that he decided to quit military-related work the day he realized that had enjoyed working on the Manhattan project.

* The only conceivable reason why [[HerrDoctor the doctor]] in ''HumanCentipede'' would think to [[spoiler:sew three people [[{{Squick}} mouth-to-anus]] to create the titular human centipede]].

Remember, ScienceIsBad, but... but... ''JustThinkOfThePotential!'' Contrast [[MadArtist For The Liberal Arts!]]

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** The idea that a miniature black hole could destroy the world is quite absurd, really -- the whole reason why the black holes are so dangerous is that they are ''supermassive''. That is, that they have at least the mass of one star collapsed in a superdense package. The entire mass of Earth couldn't produce a black hole worth mention (about the size of a marble); unless the science manages to get the mass of a star out of nothing (and the most fundamental law of science is that it's impossible to create anything out of nothing; mass and energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only converted into other types), the idea of planet-destroying black hole coming out of nowhere is quite ludicrous. Black hole isn't a cosmic vacuum cleaner -- the only thing that "sucks" is the enormous gravity, impossible to produce in Earth conditions.
*** [[NoJustNo No. Just...no.]] A black hole isn't necessarily supermassive, a black hole is merely superdense. The idea is to concentrate any amount of mass (or energy) into such a small area that gravity can overcome the other three fundamental forces (electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction) so that there is nothing to stop matter from collapsing into itself. Concentrating any amount of mass/energy, no matter how small, can result in a black hole. People tend to think of them as supermassive rather than superdense because the black holes they're familiar with form from the collapse of enormous star cores. This type of black holes was the first to be discovered because they're able to stick around for significant amounts of time. All black holes evaporate due to Hawking radiation-micro black holes (like those that might be produced in the upper atmosphere or in the LHC) evaporate almost instantaneously because of their tiny mass. Supermassive black holes have enough mass that it takes them billions if not trillions of years to evaporate. The doomsday fears of the LHC stem from the assertion that Hawking radiation has never been directly observed. If Hawking radiation ''doesn't'' exist, then with the first black hole the LHC creates, the Earth could indeed collapse into a black hole about 3 cm in diameter. '''But''', if the LHC has the energy to create micro black holes, then cosmic radiation (hundreds of times more powerful than anything the LHC can come up with) has already been doing the same with the upper atmosphere since the Earth has existed, yet we're still here. So...

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Similar]], and sometimes [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel worse]]. [[BodyHorror A lot worse]]. They also enslaved huge amounts of Chinese and Korean women, and used them as sex slaves so viciously that many were rendered infertile. Those that didn't die of disease or were killed, sometimes ''mid-coitus''.

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