Trust
Original: Trust on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with glasses and dark wavy hair (in a magenta jacket) points at a man with red/orange hair wearing a blue t-shirt that reads "TRUST THE SCIENCE."
Woman: I hate that phrase!
Panel 2:
Woman: Science is a never-ending process! It can never and should never be complete. At best we can say that we should prefer to trust people with greater expertise in a given question.
Panel 3:
Man: Well, it has to fit on a t-shirt, so—
Woman: Yes, which is why I have this!
Panel 4:
The woman pulls open her jacket to reveal a black t-shirt underneath that reads "TRUST ANALYTIC TRUTH" with the symbols "P→P" below it.
Votey:
A simple line-drawing close-up of the woman's face.
Woman: Of course I can't prove tautologies are true, so you just have to go on faith.
A woman with glasses and dark wavy hair (in a magenta jacket) points at a man with red/orange hair wearing a blue t-shirt that reads "TRUST THE SCIENCE."
Woman: I hate that phrase!
Panel 2:
Woman: Science is a never-ending process! It can never and should never be complete. At best we can say that we should prefer to trust people with greater expertise in a given question.
Panel 3:
Man: Well, it has to fit on a t-shirt, so—
Woman: Yes, which is why I have this!
Panel 4:
The woman pulls open her jacket to reveal a black t-shirt underneath that reads "TRUST ANALYTIC TRUTH" with the symbols "P→P" below it.
Votey:
A simple line-drawing close-up of the woman's face.
Woman: Of course I can't prove tautologies are true, so you just have to go on faith.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman with glasses and dark wavy hair in a magenta jacket points angrily at a red-haired man wearing a blue t-shirt reading "TRUST THE SCIENCE." She says, "I hate that phrase!" Panel 2: She lectures, "Science is a never-ending process! It can never and should never be complete. At best we can say that we should prefer to trust people with greater expertise in a given question." Panel 3: The man replies, "Well, it has to fit on a t-shirt, so—" and she answers, "Yes, which is why I have this!" Panel 4: She rips open her jacket superhero-style to reveal a black t-shirt that reads "TRUST ANALYTIC TRUTH" with the logical tautology "P→P" (P implies P) printed below. Votey (aftercomic): A simple line drawing of the woman's face as she admits, "Of course I can't prove tautologies are true, so you just have to go on faith." The joke: her supposedly airtight, self-evidently-true slogan still bottoms out in faith.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.