Remember Faust? He studied anatomy by dissecting human corpses, and suddenly stories got around that he was building zombies, and we get all these plays and operas, etc. about Faust selling his soul to the devil for the power to bring the dead back to life.


It's better now--you only get fired or lose funding or get criticized by the press if your results don't match what they are supposed to.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

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