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Scientists may be open to new ideas, but are not by any means paragons of universal open minded acceptance. This is heavily exaggerated in fiction. What do a peerage of scientists do when presented with amazing or disturbing theories that could seriously change everyone's worldview and/or revolutionize science by one of their fellows? Do they test out the theory themselves, analyze it thoroughly, or interview their fellow scientist in an effort to find any truth in his "wild" theories or disabuse him of them before he goes crackpot?

 

Compare [[All of the Other Reindeer]] and [[Who's Laughing Now?]] With variant #1 especially, this is frequently a motive behind [[Disproportionate Retribution]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]], {{spoiler|Professor Takano had been investigating a strange disease called Hinamizawa Syndrome, which could alter one's personality into that of a psychopathic paranoiac. Based on this, he wants to show that a person's personality can be altered or even wholly changed by parasites in the brain. However, at almost every turn, he is refused both funding and consideration for his work -- despite doing careful research, inviting his colleagues to look at his results, and otherwise acting like an actual scientist rather than [[Mad Scientist|the alternative]]. He never got anywhere, and ultimately ended up [[Driven to Suicide|jumping off the roof of his home]] but the Scientist's Beautiful Granddaughter, Miyo, well, [[Kill'Em All|that's another story...]]}}