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{{quote|''[[After -Action Villain Analysis|The Krells, in the insolence]] of their success, tried to usurp the power of God. And were destroyed.''|The [[Apocalyptic Log]] of '''C.X. Ostrow''' in the novelization of ''[[Forbidden Planet]]''}}
 
Science is a religion-- an [[Religion of Evil|evil]], godless religion that isn't just [[Science Is Bad|Bad]] and [[Science Is Wrong|Wrong]], but unethical [[Harmony Versus Discipline|by nature]]. And like all religions, [[Seven Deadly Sins|it has sins]]--or, rather, "[[Evil Virtues|virtues]]". These are the sins that a [[Mad Scientist]] commits in his quests [[For Science!]]. If... no, ''[[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|when]]'' these are violated something will [[Go Horribly Wrong]] and the transgressor will receive karmic punishment [[Hoist By His Own Petard|in accordance to the sin]], increasing in evil as the number rises. [[Karma Houdini|No exceptions.]]
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* On ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', any exotic technology that fixes Earth's big problems by solving energy crises, eliminating air pollution, or giving us an effective non-Doctor defense against aliens is an alien plot to destroy us.
 
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** Dr Julian Bashir is a genetic augment who turned out relatively well. His case is sympathetic: he was a special needs kid before the augmentation and has a stable personality. To bring the point home, he visits his fellow augments in a couple of different episodes and while they all possess extreme intelligence like him, they also suffer from mental defects and/or personality disorders and are, regardless, banned from having meaningful careers... Then again, the only reason Dr. Bashir has a meaningful and otherwise legal career is that he lied about being a genetic augment. And the genetic augmentation is the exact reason Section 31 wants him for themselves.
** The flaws are explicitly due to flaws in their black-market augmentations. It isn't a reason for the ban (which is explicitly just Khan), but a result of it.
* Kit Pedler, a writer/scientific advisor for ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' in 1966, sincerely believed that [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]], and was worried that nobody would listen to his warnings. So he invented the Cybermen, as a chilling tale of things to come. When Earth's twin planet Mondas drifts away from the Sun, the people turn to cyber-augmentation as a desperation move, he only way to save their race. But it doesn't matter why they did it; a sin against the natural order can only have one result. So they inevitably became soulless, emotionless automatons. Of course this didn't come across in most stories; they were just scary, hard-to-kill bad guys who came up with insanely complicated and devious plots to convert everyone else into more Cybermen.
** In the new series, the re-envisioned Cybermen are more straightforward [[Body Horror]] than [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]. They're designed with "emotion inhibitor" chips from the start; without these, the realization of what they'd become would [[Your Head Asplode|lead to head asplody]]. The creator of these new Cybermen is forced to become one earlier than he'd planned, but, other than that, there's no real penalty for tampering with the natural order.
* Also on ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the Daleks were a [[Genetic Engineering]] horror story. The Kaled people were being mutated by a millennium-long nuclear/biological/chemical war. One of their scientists, Davros, came up with (or stole) the brilliant idea of accelerating the mutations to see where they would finally end up. And, while at it, he couldn't pass up the opportunity to improve on his creations, making them stronger and more determined. In one version of the story, he was explicitly trying to turn the Kaled race into gods, based on a prophecy he'd read. In all versions, the result was the Daleks, whose sole motivation was to exterminate any lesser (i.e., non-Dalek) forms of life. Starting with Davros himself.
 
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