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: PrawfsSearching for realism in popular culture
By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel
I have written before that one of my pet peeves is the woefully inaccurate portrayal of lawyers and the legal system in popular culture, to which others have pointed out that the problem is one of having specialized knowledge. Thus, physicists are similarly likely to be bothered by gravity on the Starship Enterprise.
On that note: After the jump is a handy chart evaluating major sci-fi films are their scientific accuracy (or lack thereof). Star Wars and The Last Starfighter get it most wrong; Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff get it most right.
Full post as published by Prawfs on December 28, 2010 (boomark / email).
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