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Science, Kai...Pure Science, and be Damned to He Who Says "Enough".

Started by Doktor Howl, February 08, 2010, 04:24:37 PM

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Bruno

Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 10, 2010, 03:23:29 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on February 10, 2010, 12:44:44 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 10, 2010, 07:32:28 AM
We are going to need nemeses.  Cf: 48 Laws. 

Anyone here know of a forum where scientists go to debate ethics?

The Union of Concerned Scientists is chock full of meddling do-gooders.

Also, they have a cool name for cursing and fist shaking and wot-not.

Do they have a website?

Yeah, but no message board.

http://www.ucsusa.org/
Formerly something else...

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on February 10, 2010, 05:53:41 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 10, 2010, 03:23:29 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on February 10, 2010, 12:44:44 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 10, 2010, 07:32:28 AM
We are going to need nemeses.  Cf: 48 Laws. 

Anyone here know of a forum where scientists go to debate ethics?

The Union of Concerned Scientists is chock full of meddling do-gooders.

Also, they have a cool name for cursing and fist shaking and wot-not.

Do they have a website?

Yeah, but no message board.

http://www.ucsusa.org/

That's okay.  I was planning on emailing them, anyway.  Will post screenshots.
Molon Lube

Jasper


BabylonHoruv

Quote from: Kai on February 09, 2010, 04:06:47 PM
Dear Dkr. Howl,

I understand your reasoning completely. In a world where people are taken way too seriously, being a mad scientist means you are one of the few who actually /isn't/.

However, I think I'm there already. You see, I'm a biologist, and not just a biologist, but a systematist, and not just a systematist but a pattern cladist systematist, and not just a pattern cladist systematist but a pattern cladist systematist that specializes in a group of insects which make most people ask the question, "What the HELL is a Cah-deece Fly?" No one takes me seriously, except my fellow Trichopterists, and we're all a small group.

Turns out we end up pretty much like mad scientists without even trying. All that's left is some style. I mean, what's the point of all this if you can't look strange doing it?

So, here's some ideas:

1. Change of wardrobe. I have some of the same sort of button downs my adviser wears, but my pants are all wrong. Also, fishing vests, you know, the sort that have all the pockets so I can have vials and notebooks and forceps stuffed in with me at all times. Also also, pocket protectors. My glasses are just about perfect now, so no change there.

2. Library. My adviser stresses this quite a bit, and I've obliged probably more than I should considering my funds. The more old entomology texts I have, the better. Hell, I've got 100 year old copies of Darwin. And I've always got an old book on my person for reading.

3. Language. It's not that I can't speak English, it's just that it's so much more fun to speak in lingua siencia. Using entomology terms for body parts is a good start (ig, frons for forehead, tarsus for foot). Also, change of curse words. Frass for shit, adeagus for penis derivatives, and "Phryganeids!" as an interjection. If I'm gonna swear, might as well do it in style.

4. Absentminded professor. Now, I don't mean being actually absentminded. I mean, instead feining absentmindedness. Keep the kids on their toes. Part of being a mad scientist is seeming completely harmless in your ridiculous while in actuality you're so much more.

I know this is probably not the sort of mad scientist you aspire to, but there's more than one mad scientist out there. We're all the same in the sense that we see how unbelievably amazing reality is, and how equally unbelievable is the stupidity of the ordinary human monkeys we see every day in their complete failure to see the amazingness of reality. This, of course, drives us mad.

Sincerely yours,

Kai

Oh hell yes, mad entymologists. 
You're a special case, Babylon.  You are offensive even when you don't post.

Merely by being alive, you make everyone just a little more miserable

-Dok Howl

Rumckle

It's not trolling, it's just satire.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Rumckle on February 10, 2010, 09:47:56 PM
Entomologists don't get mad, they systematically get even.

But they DO go mad.  Comes from spending all day picking through vats of bugs.
Molon Lube

Kai

Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 10, 2010, 09:51:41 PM
Quote from: Rumckle on February 10, 2010, 09:47:56 PM
Entomologists don't get mad, they systematically get even.

But they DO go mad.  Comes from spending all day picking through vats of bugs.

Seriously. It's not the bugs themselves, but the poly-acetyl-vinyl-formalin-napthaline-alcohol vapors rising out of the liquids they are pickled in.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Her Royal Majesty's Chief of Insect Genitalia Dissection
Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Kai on February 10, 2010, 09:58:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 10, 2010, 09:51:41 PM
Quote from: Rumckle on February 10, 2010, 09:47:56 PM
Entomologists don't get mad, they systematically get even.

But they DO go mad.  Comes from spending all day picking through vats of bugs.

Seriously. It's not the bugs themselves, but the poly-acetyl-vinyl-formalin-napthaline-alcohol vapors rising out of the liquids they are pickled in.

Um.

So.

You hiring?
Molon Lube

Eater of Clowns

Sometimes I lament for the truly mad scientist days of early psychology.

Milgram making people think they electrocuted someone to death.
Harlowe torturing baby monkeys.
Making babies associate fuzzy rabbits with distress and fear.

Lousy ethics board.   :argh!:
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Freeky



Rumckle

Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 10, 2010, 11:09:19 PM
Quote from: EoC on February 10, 2010, 11:08:18 PM
Making babies associate fuzzy rabbits with distress and fear.


NOT. FUNNY.

Eh, rabbits aren't that nice anyway. If it were kittens, that would be cruel.
It's not trolling, it's just satire.

Eater of Clowns

Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

Quote
the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Freeky


The Wizard

You could find one of those pathetic "real superheroes" that wander the internet. They would make entertaining, if very sad, nemeses.
Insanity we trust.