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1'''Basic Trope''': Science is dangerous/AlwaysChaoticEvil.
2* '''Straight''': {{Megacorp}} has been experimenting with technology PoweredByAForsakenChild.
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Every scientifically-minded individual enjoys shooting people and stabbing kittens ForTheEvulz.
5** The world goes from an {{Utopia}} to a CrapsackWorld the moment scientific method is invented. All the wars, diseases and natural disasters are caused by scientists [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans working in the]] [[CardCarryingVillain name of evil.]]
6* '''Downplayed''': Most scientists tend to be {{Morally Ambiguous Doctorate}}s, or just really [[GoodIsNotNice rude]].
7** Science is portrayed as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality fundamentally incapable of being good or evil, just amoral]], but the morally relevant parts are due only to the power which may be used for good or evil. ("Not much to say morally about cataloging rocks and their formation.")
8* '''Justified''':
9** Science is viewed as heretical in-setting, and is pursued in defiance of the local CrystalDragonJesus.
10** The story focuses on the times when [[TheyWouldCutYouUp terrible]] [[PlayingWithSyringes things]] are done in the name of [[ForScience science]].
11* '''Inverted''':
12** ScienceHero
13** ScienceIsGood
14** KnightTemplar [[EvilLuddite Luddites]] go about killing people, often for no go reason, and the only people who stand against them are scientists.
15* '''Subverted''': As straight, but their main competitor, TropeCo/TropeCo, has been experimenting ethically for decades...
16* '''Double Subverted''': ...As far as the public knows.
17* '''Parodied''':
18** Satan lobbies strongly for increased science education.
19** The scientist are all required to dress in an ObviouslyEvil way and must swear their souls to the devil upon graduating from an university.
20* '''Zig Zagged''': [=TropeCo=] invents a ray that fires pure joy...which it then uses to brainwash the world...and then {{Megacorp}} scientists disable the ray...by nuking the city it's contained in. But the nuke turned everything into ice cream, and people still ''died'' from it. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And irradiated ice cream can't be safe to eat...]]
21* '''Averted''':
22** Scientists never appear.
23** Scientists are pretty evenly spread across the good/evil axis.
24* '''Enforced''': The producer's girlfriend was taken by a [[NerdsAreSexy hot scientist guy]], so he made the writers change the story into an anti-science [[AuthorTract Producer Tract]].
25* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, come on!! Could we have at least one non-MadScientist? Huh?"
26* '''Invoked''': Dr. [=McLennan=]'s jealous colleague, Dr. Barton, gives both of them a drug that makes them stupid.
27* '''Exploited''':
28** Emperor Evulz turns the crowd against the local ScienceHero, making the think his science is evil. He then sits back and watches them tear him limb from limb.
29** Emperor Evulz keeps his citizens from using technology against him by convincing his subjects that any science more advanced than the wheel is evil.
30* '''Implied''': Men in lab coats and their apparatuses are often seen in menacing sillohoutes.
31* '''Defied''': ''Behold! [[TheAdjectivalSuperhero THE ENLIGHTENED CARL SAGAN-MAN!!]] Educating the world in the wonders of SCIENCE!!!''
32** [[DeadpanSnarker Bob]] mercilessly points out how nonsensical and incoherent the whole concept is given it conflates the process of discovery, the knowledge, its applications, and changes made using it as one entity. He snarks that wouldn't mean the concept of eating is also evil because it includes [[EatsBabies baby eating]] by definition.
33* '''Discussed''': "These newcomers know how to use chemicals. Are they trustworthy?"
34* '''Conversed''': "Oh, here we go. The bad guy's a scientist. Did the writers never watch ''{{Series/Mythbusters}}''? 'Cuz those guys are friggin' ''awesome''."
35* '''Deconstructed''':
36** Anti-science fanatics destroy the scientific community, leading to a dark age where medicine and technology come to a halt.
37** Scientific research is repressed because of its potential for misuse - only for those in power to control society by abusing something else, such as religion or ideology.
38** Fears that advanced weaponry, bioengineered creatures, pollution etc could bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt lead to the rejection of modern science in favour of MedievalStasis. Which means that when an asteroid heads towards Earth, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy nobody has the technology to do anything about it]].
39* '''Reconstructed''': ...But [[AWizardDidIt magic is just as good]].
40* '''Played For Laughs''': MadScientist as IneffectualSympatheticVillain.
41* '''Played For Drama''': Dr. [=McLennan=] has to go on the run when the people get the idea to [[BurnTheWitch Burn All the Scientists]], and eventually gets caught and killed because he's an AbsentMindedProfessor.
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