2011-08-07
Original: 2011-08-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title bar: WHAT IF SCIENTISTS HAD THE SAME STANDARDS AS PUNDITS?
Panel 1 (single panel): Two people face each other against a blue background. On the left, a man with orange flame-like hair seen from behind/side. On the right, a man with white hair and round glasses wearing a green shirt.
Orange-haired man: But, how do you know the Earth is a cube?
White-haired man: Well, I thought it once, then I thought it again. That's two data points right there.
Votey: A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "Times I thought it" and the horizontal axis is labeled "Time." An upward-sloping line runs from the lower left toward the upper right. In the upper-right corner, a large shaded blob is labeled "Truth Zone," which the rising line passes into.
Panel 1 (single panel): Two people face each other against a blue background. On the left, a man with orange flame-like hair seen from behind/side. On the right, a man with white hair and round glasses wearing a green shirt.
Orange-haired man: But, how do you know the Earth is a cube?
White-haired man: Well, I thought it once, then I thought it again. That's two data points right there.
Votey: A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "Times I thought it" and the horizontal axis is labeled "Time." An upward-sloping line runs from the lower left toward the upper right. In the upper-right corner, a large shaded blob is labeled "Truth Zone," which the rising line passes into.
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A single-panel SMBC comic titled "What if scientists had the same standards as pundits?" Two men talk against a blue background: one with orange flame-like hair (seen from behind) and one with white hair and round glasses in a green shirt. The orange-haired man asks, "But, how do you know the Earth is a cube?" The white-haired man replies, "Well, I thought it once, then I thought it again. That's two data points right there." The votey (aftercomic) is a hand-drawn line graph with the y-axis labeled "Times I thought it" and the x-axis labeled "Time." An upward-sloping line rises into a large shaded blob in the upper right labeled "Truth Zone" — implying that simply thinking something repeatedly graphs as a trend toward truth.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.