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my_daroga ([personal profile] my_daroga) wrote in [community profile] philedom 2009-05-15 09:51 pm (UTC)

I think it's one of those things that, in a movie I enjoyed better, I might have been more inclined to overlook. I'm sure you're familiar. But I've gotten ever-more-sensitive to the shortcuts that writers take, the "enhance!" buttons on computers, the really really shoddy science. It's not so much that I need everything to be true/accurate/doable, but that when it's so obviously wrong it feels like they either 1) assume I'm not going to notice or 2) assume that if I do, I won't care. And then I feel condescended to.

I have no doubt that it's possible to find a two-headed dog experiment using Google. But that they want me to believe that has anything to do with stem cell research--that any of this did--seems insulting. Not the least in a political climate where stem cell research is being vilified and debated.

Which isn't to deny that was probably a really funny circumstance, for you. And doubtless, I expect too much from my entertainment. I am often told so.

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