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mad scientist ethics board that makes sure that a project is sufficiently unethical before providing funding

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sometimes you get a normal scientist trying to apply with a regular invention that just has a puppy shredder attached to it with hot glue or sticky

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you'd think they'd be disqualified for that, but trying to cheat the system to get research funding actually adds a lot of unethical points

Isn’t there an SNL skit pretty similar to this?

In MST3k (Mystery Science Theater 3000), the mad scientist, Pearl Forrester, has to get reviewed some sort of mad science review board at one point, I'm pretty sure.

Reminds me of
https://youtu.be/Of9kHpCv1ts?is=bG2otXccGSKR6K-w

you'd think they'd be disqualified for that, but trying to cheat the system to get research funding actually adds a lot of unethical points

"Shadow, it's me, The Devil(TM)."

You might be thinking of this.

And if you aren't you should watch it anyway.

Likewise. Now I wanna watch that again for the thirtieth time

The shy and nervous lil scientist says, “it could probably handle a small child too but we haven’t tested it.”

Is it the Dwayne Johnson pedophilia thing?

Edit: it was

Look... I'm not mad you interrupted my re-watch but...

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Remove this and everything after it.

"I'll take care of it."

When he says he screwed the pooch, he probably means it.

I heard that some scientists took money from a crazy millionaire who wanted to find Atlantis and then used it for normal mapping of the ocean floor.

Wasn't this in one of the Dispicable Me movies?

I definitely read that last bit in Hans Doofenschmirtz’s voice.

I mean, you don't have to phrase it like that. But yes.