Expect them to go "You promised you would use my discoveries for good!" to his "Oh, but I am!". These benign inventors may end up in service of the Corrupt Corporate Executive, and will be so happy to have funding they don't ask where the money comes from - or what their discoveries are being used for. Where test subjects are concerned, at their most benign they'll only threaten to do minor experiments on friends if they get volunteers or luckily capture one, the effects will be quirky and temporary. Contrary to Fridge Logic, For Science rarely provides additional insight in its field after the Nuclear Roboclone is created, most Mad Scientists lose interest in documenting how they actually did it and what else can be done with those methods. Usually, this nonchalance leads to Reed Richards Is Useless as they file away their inventions under " Forgotten Phlebotinum" rather than seek to commercialize them or expanding the body of knowledge available to humanity. How will I fund my research, and how can I make money off of it? (What? These are legitimate questions!).Will it rise up against humanity and/or eat me?.Are these experiments ethical? Is Phlebotinum Rebellion likely?.
Can we make sure willing subjects are informed of all the risks involved in testing my dangerous untested invention?.Is there any way of gaining any replicable data or results?.
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Does it have any potential applications - that are not immediately lethal, full of side effects, potentially genocidal, ecocidal, omnicidal or mildly herbicidal?.When a scientist says he does something For Science!, what this usually means is he simply doesn't care about the answers to several important questions regarding his research, like:
Usually simple curiosity, coupled with ambition, will evolve into hubris before long, as caution and restraint are thrown out the steel-barred window. The researcher will seek forbidden knowledge for its own sake rather than to better the world, and with no thought of the consequences. This is one of the classic motivations for Science Is Bad stories.