Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Scientific Method--Golden Age Style!!

1) Develop a hypothesis.

The Batman theory--'crime is a disease, and I'm the cure'2) Make predictions designed to test the hypothesis.

Women's waists were much smaller in 19403) Design multiple, well-controlled experiments to test those predictions.

Well, it wouldn't hurt to at least ask someone else, Jim4) If the results are not what was expected, re-formulate the hypothesis.

See--that's an alternate hypothesis!!
SCIENCE!!!!
If lifting a bed=strongest man on Earth, this must have been Earth-Wimp
Take that, Einstein!!5) Results must be recorded and reported. Publishing is vital, so the scientific community may reproduce and confirm your results.

But if they use it, wouldn't they be cured of criminality?!?
Spoiler alert: he does save at least one dose, so Susan can become BulletgirlNote: Someone really needs to remind Jim Barr that his experiment was designed end criminal behavior, so destroying it to prevent it from falling into criminal hands is rather silly, since anyone who used it could no longer be criminal. That means you didn't have any real confidence that your theory to begin with. Plus, testing on yourself, when you had no criminal tendencies, does nothing to prove or disprove your theory. Double plus, since that serum cured "all germs" and cleansed his body of all "poisons," the nimrod just flushed a Nobel-prize winning cancer cure down the drain.


SCIENCE!!!!

BONUS: Why CSI would not have succeeded as a series in the 1940s:

Pa Kent's early life as sarcastic, abusive copThe origin of Bulletman came from Nickel Comics #1, 1940.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Man, I love these. It's going to be nothing but golden age comics in my reading bin for a while . . . thanks for reviewing them, and I hope you'll do more.