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# [[Scale of Scientific Sins|Are]] [[Strapped to An Operating Table|these]] [[Aesoptinum|experiments]] [[TheydThey Would Cut You Up|ethical?]] Is [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]lion likely?

* Lloyd in ''[[Code Geass]]'', so much. When he gets the chance, he even asks "I wonder if you'd let me analyze that Geass... For Science, of course." Subverted, in that it is explained that he uses the "For Science" mentality to avoid the emotional stress of losing friends, and in a later episode what he says to Nina implies that it's also so that he won't feel the responsibility for making weapons that kill a lot of people.

* In ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'', this trope seems to be the driving force of most of Academy City's scientists, doing crazy, incredibly dangerous and downright evil experiments just to make a Level 6 Esper. {{spoiler|And according to Telestina Lifeline, this is the ''entire'' purpose of Academy City.}}

* ''[[Midori Days]]'': Let's have Dr. Shirou]] give us his point of view: "'''[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/midori_no_hibi/v03/c024/15.html SCIENCE IS JUSTICE!! SCIENCE IS TRUTH!!]"''' Thank you doctor.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'': Kabuto's motivation for his alliances with Orochimaru and later Madara.

* In ''[[Claymore]]'', Dae seems to exist solely to be overjoyed at seeing one of his [[Eldritch Abomination|pro]][[The Virus|ject]] going [[Gone Horribly Wrong|Horribly Wrong]] or [[Gone Horribly Right|Horribly Right]].

== [[ComicsComic Books]] ==

* In the fan-film ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20191121060921/http://www.returnoftheghostbusters.com/ Return of the Ghostbusters]'', [[Designated Villain]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Dr. Konstantine]] tells TV audiences that if the amulet he has discovered does, as theorized, hold the powers of Egyptian god Anubis, he'd like "to harness the power as a weapon... for the benefit of mankind, of course."

* ''[[MythBusters]]'' vs. ''[[My Little Pony]]'' on [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=theartrix#/d3bmtq1 Deviantart]

{{quote|"''I've seen pandas on the wing

''Heard the brontosaurus sing

''And I've measured balls of string

''For the benefit of mankind

''(For the benefit of mankind) }}

{{quote|''I've untangled tambourines

''Disinfected aubergines

''Looped a loop in submarines

''For the benefit of mankind

''(For the benefit of mankind)..." }}

* A [https://web.archive.org/web/20131210081810/http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_051.html flashback] in ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' demonstrates Kimiko's [[Gadgeteer Genius]] potential:

** Found on the ''xkcd'' website, drawn by Randall Munroe, but technically not ''xkcd'': [https://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20171223021728/https://xkcd.com/asmarterplanet// Conservation]

* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100425033957/http://stringtheory.nfshost.com/comics/pagenine/ String Theory]'' uses it here to great effect.

* In ''Accursed Dragon'' Doctor sharpe is seen holding a turtle over a candle to see if it sweats. Why? [http://www.accurseddragon.com/site/index.php/archive/samples/ "Science, my dear. SCIENCE!"]{{Dead link}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115101950/http://www.evildivacomics.com/?p=486 The pretext for following] [[Evil Diva (webcomic)|Evil Diva]]

* ''[[Nicky510 ]]'':

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110830071024/http://www.nicky510.com/comic/impure-research/ "Now that's what I call doin' some SCIENCE!"]

** Revisited in Nicky510 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110901053827/http://www.nicky510.com/comic/science-do-it-because-its-there/ here].

* ''[[The Spoony Experiment|]]'': Dr. Insano]] uses "With SCIENCE, of course!" as his [[Catch Phrase]], and tends to lean towards the destructive side of scientific research if his orbital death ray and his taking control of Neutro are any indication. Some of his inventions, however, such as the [[Unobtanium|raritanium-powered]] anti-magic field generator, or [[Take That|getting an Atari Jaguar CD to run]], might have peaceful applications. Not that he acknowledges this, as he's [[Card-Carrying Villain|quite open]] about wishing to use them for death, destruction and [[Take Over the World|world conquest]]. This inevitably carries over into all other series that Dr. Insano makes cameos in, such as ''[[Kickassia]]''.

** [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] seems to think that "saying something smart" involves dressing in a lab coat, holding up a beaker, and shouting, "Science! Science again! I said science again!"

** A more direct example is when Strong Bad is asked by a fan what would happen if someone poked Pom Pom (a character who resembles a giant balloon) with a pin. After attempting said experiment (it didn't end well... for him), he says "It had to be done in the name of science. Or more accurately, because some kid emailed me and told me to."

* On ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Professor Richard Impossible conducted an experiment that blew up in his face. It granted him incredible stretching powers, but left his family with painful and hideous mutations. Not only is he completely unsympathetic to their plight, but he treats them like prisoners most of the time. Impossible is a thinly-veiled parody of ''The [[Fantastic Four]]'''s Reed Richards, who has slipped into this trope from [[Reed Richards Is Useless]] more than once (most recently{{when}} during ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]''). Impossible's crowning moment of For Science! was when confronted by his wife that their son was missing, he ignores her and handwaves it:

** That's right - For Science! has actually managed to create good.

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|]]'': What a fine day... FOR SCIENCE!]]{{context}}<!-- The least you could do is name the character who said this. -->

* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force|Frylock]] falls into this trope on occasion—the toilet that destroyed Carl's body springs to mind.':

* All the [[Fan Nickname|Sciencebots]] of ''[[Transformers]]'' are practically programed to do stupid things FOR SCIENCE. Perceptor has given up his personality to store more data in his head, Wheeljack built five fire-breathing dinosaurs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-aTbHsZJ9g (with not enough brains to tell their heads from their asses)] just because he went to a natural history museum, and Starscream tends to clone himself and make others into drones. There was also that monkey Primacron who built Unicron's G1 cartoon-verse body.

* This is pretty much ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar|Kowalski]]'': This is pretty much Kowalski's modus operandi, seeing as he's the brains of the outfit.

* ''[[Futurama]]'': Good news everyone! I've invented something crazy! For Science!{{context}}<!-- The least you could do is name the character who said this. -->

Judge: A sense of humanity would have bid you not to! }}

* When [[John F. Kennedy|JFK]] was asked why America was going to the Moon, he answered "WhyWe choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not" because they are easy, but because they are hard."

"Wernherr von Braun: The man who aimed for the stars and hit London instead." }}

{{quote|"The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet." }}

** Then again, he and his [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Jewish]] assistance made major breakthroughs in the research of a disease named noma. This disease, which involves [[Body Horror|hideous facial gangrene]], does not exist in the developed Western world anymore, but it still does in [[Darkest Africa|Africa]]. Ah well, at least someone helped them out with it—asit — as we all know, [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|beggars can’t be choosers]].

* ''There is no such thing as good knowledge or bad knowledge. There is only knowledge. Morality is when you decide'' '''''not''''' ''to use it.'' -- ''anonymous''

* There was a concern that the first A-Bomb tests would trigger nitrogen fusion and ignite the entire atmosphere, wiping out all life on Earth. Teller first brought it up. "In Serber's account, Oppenheimer mentioned it to Arthur Compton, who 'didn't have enough sense to shut up about it. It somehow got into a document that went to Washington' which led to the question being 'never laid to rest'." By the time the test was done, this outcome seemed vanishingly unlikely (nitrogen does not fuse easily). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140309190949/http://www.sciencemusings.com/2005/10/what-didnt-happen.html Further discussion here.]

* [[Carl Sagan]] harshly criticized Edward Teller for his relentless push to develop the hydrogen bomb. While nuclear fission bombs, such as the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are certainly nothing to be taken lightly, the whole "destroy all life on Earth N times over" model of the modern nuclear arsenal would not have been possible without the hydrogen bomb.

** Pretty much all "for world co-operation!". It's far easier and cheaper to use unmanned space craft for science in space, except for studying the effects of the space environment on humans - which is of course the important part: if we ever hope to colonize Mars, we have to know what happens to people during the trip there.

* The [[wikipedia:Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male|Tuskegee Study]], a study in the early to mid 1900s was one of the longest studies in history, and one of the direct causes for African Americans distrusting doctors. The scientists hired a black doctor to convince poor, mostly illiterate, men with syphilis to participate in the study, promising the volunteers free medical care, a free ride into town (most didn't own cars, so they had to walk to get groceries and stuff), and a free burial when they eventually died (at an old age.; Thethe study didn't set out to kill them.). Instead, the men were lied to consistently, for example, told that a spinal tap was a special treatment for the disease, and that the disease was "bad blood" in their system. The doctors withheld treatment, even once penicillin was discovered as a viable treatment. The worst part? Hundreds suffered while the whole point of the study was to prove that black men suffered from syphilis the same way as white men—it set to prove that everyone was equal.

** In fairness, the Study took place before any sort of comprehensive or universal bioethics policy or regulatory board existed in the United States, making it somewhat [[Fair for Its Day]] (although obviously [[YMMV]] on that). And it wasn't a plot to exterminate the black race, despite what some more radical civil rights leaders have claimed.

** See also Dr Lee Stanley of San Quentin Prison, who did wacky things like implanting animal testicles into human inmates, or taking testicles from corpses and trying to implant them in living humans, or just regular forced castrations... what a guy.

* As pesticides and herbicides began to grow in popularity, many industrial chemists began inventing chemicals and blindly testing them simply to find a better one. These tests were limited in scope and simplistic as well; if a chemical killed an insect, it was an insecticide, a plant, an herbicide, a man, a chemical weapon. Sometimes these overlapped; the most famous cases are some of the insecticides developed in interwar Germany, which turned out to be [[The Holocaust|Zyklon-B]], Tabun, and Sarin.<ref>The -- the earliest nerve agents.</ref>

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