2011-07-06
Original: 2011-07-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title bar: WHY DOCTORS SHOULDN'T STUDY PHILOSOPHY:
Panel 1:
A female doctor in a white coat with glasses, holding a clipboard, speaks to a balding man with a mustache who is seen from behind.
Doctor: "The good news is you'll die slowly over the next few weeks. The bad news is that you don't contextualize that as good news."
Votey:
Close-up of the doctor, still speaking.
Doctor: "I'll be injecting you with whatever I find first, since logical positivism isn't a self-consistent epistemology."
Panel 1:
A female doctor in a white coat with glasses, holding a clipboard, speaks to a balding man with a mustache who is seen from behind.
Doctor: "The good news is you'll die slowly over the next few weeks. The bad news is that you don't contextualize that as good news."
Votey:
Close-up of the doctor, still speaking.
Doctor: "I'll be injecting you with whatever I find first, since logical positivism isn't a self-consistent epistemology."
Alt text
A webcomic titled "WHY DOCTORS SHOULDN'T STUDY PHILOSOPHY:". A female doctor in a white coat and glasses, holding a clipboard, stands over a balding mustached man shown from behind. She tells him: "The good news is you'll die slowly over the next few weeks. The bad news is that you don't contextualize that as good news." The joke is that her philosophical framing makes a bad prognosis sound like a perversely upbeat trolley problem. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the same doctor continuing, "I'll be injecting you with whatever I find first, since logical positivism isn't a self-consistent epistemology" - she has abandoned all medical reasoning in favor of philosophy-of-science nihilism.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.