Ever try to get bitten by a radioactive spider to acquire web-slinging powers in your wrists? Baffled as to the lack of matter transporters for sale on the market? Think that organ transplants can be conducted strictly in dank, underground laboratories performed with the ease of fixing a sandwich?
Preposterous as all of the above seems, a sensationally scary number of people receive their scientific education from the movies. Lamentably, the silver screen is not the most accredited of institutions. So when science is on the set in Hollywood, it usually spends a lot of time in the make-up chair. It has to. Looking unadulterated science in the face for a few hours can be tough to swallow.
The usual result: the requisite years of tedious work garnering progress in the lab get whittled into sound-bite-sized nuggets chock full of misinformation on the screen. Blockbusters such as Spiderman and the ...
