A couple of nice cartoons that illustrate the differences between science as depicted in movies and TV – i.e. awesome, fast, and produced quick and definite results – vs real science, which is often slow, painstaking, and rarely produces the kind of conclusive results that can be stated with a whole bunch of qualifiers…

Here’s XKCD’s montage of movie science vs real science

XKCD's take on movie science

And via Discover’s Bad Astronomy blog, here’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s take on how science tv is different from actual science

SMBC on what Science TV is like

[Via Bad Astronomy, XKCD, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]

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