Madness At The
Edge Of Science: What is it that we love about the mad scientists in our movies
and history? Is it because their probing of the unknown piques our curiosity? Is
it their seeming superiority to the common herd? Or is it that they -- at least
for a while -- get away with more than we can? They do so in many realms of knowledge. Some of them are
practical, and quest for better things for the human race. Others are decidedly
less practical. One of their most prominent technologies has been advanced
medicine. Filmic mad scientists of the 1930s and 1940s led the vanguard in such
efforts as keeping organs alive outside the body, cryogenics, new methods of
surgery, robotic parts for humans, and new serums. Others harnessed electricity
for all sorts of uses, but mostly to bring dead flesh back to life (always a
useful ability), or to power advanced robots and death rays.
In fact, their films have been hotbeds of fortean technology,
introducing then-taboo ideas, preparing audiences for technological development
in a world in which moral and scientific values would change and old taboos
would be discarded. The movies render such taboo topics psychologically "safe"
by making the inventions those of "madmen." The scientists who have uncovered the great secrets and
developed the miraculous inventions in real life have been a decidedly less
colorful lot -- if one disallows such exceptions as Nikola Tesla, Jack Parsons,
Wilhelm Reich, Timothy Leary, John Lilly, Sir Fred Hoyle and Prof. Kevin
Warwick. Most of the "boffins" who helped develop the atomic bomb and other such
wonders were reportedly all too normal. But their proclivities for blithe
destruction have often left their cinematic versions far behind. It is the
potential for cutting-edge science to wound that makes fictions about the
subject relevant.In the movies, scientists are quite often "mad," and have been
so since the silent movies.The things they do, however, have been fairly consistent...
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