@ZachWeinersmith yeah, this seems accurate :BlobCatYes:

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Related: https://timharford.com/2022/11/cautionary-tales-the-inventor-who-almost-ended-the-world/

@ZachWeinersmith Just an excuse to draw a dong

@ZachWeinersmith I think we're downplaying mad social science's lethality here given that covers both political science AND economics

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.socialnow now I'm going to be thinking all afternoon about where geologists should be placed.

@ZachWeinersmith Isn’t Marx mad social science?

@ZachWeinersmith But that isn’t the shape of a Gaussian! #comicsarenoexcuse

@ZachWeinersmith after the last kurzgesagt in a few years i expect to see a follow up to this with the biologist standing over the chemists body sprouting mushrooms and cackling or something

@ZachWeinersmith Introvert mathematician: stares fixedly at own shoes.
Extrovert mathematician: stares fixedly at your shoes.

@ZachWeinersmith I mean, mad chemistry is bad, but mad physics gave us nukes, and mad social science gave us SO much racism...

However, I think the cake has to go to mad climate science (sponsored by the fossil fuel industry)

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@ZachWeinersmith pretty sure Ayn Rand goes in the left.

@ZachWeinersmith mad humanities is more like racist terrorist manifestos and propaganda, i think. but they require mad chemists, mad biologists, mad physicists/engineers to actually carry out the deeds.

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Well, mad humanities gave us Churchill,
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and several
Abrahamic churches still
violently fighting 2000 years later.

@ZachWeinersmith "No, Randall, mine have rectangle bodies!"

@ZachWeinersmith *"Virologists not shown, being way off the scale"

@ZachWeinersmith Can't help myself but I'm sure I have seen this already by either yourself or by Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/1895/
https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3543

@ZachWeinersmith this is going to make mathematicians mad

@ZachWeinersmith Your attempts at xkcd are the best.

@ZachWeinersmith Shakespeare doesn't reach today's audience that demand every derivative of stories set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Also, too many murders in the tragedies, too many cross-dressers in the comedies.

@ZachWeinersmith It's the Mad Engineers you've really got to watch out for.

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social are politicians considered to be humanities? If so this chart shall be exponential