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mad scientist ethics board that makes sure that a project is sufficiently unethical before providing funding
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sometimes you get a normal scientist trying to apply with a regular invention that just has a puppy shredder attached to it with hot glue or sticky
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you’d think they’d be disqualified for that, but trying to cheat the system to get research funding actually adds a lot of unethical points

In MST3k (Mystery Science Theater 3000), the mad scientist, Pearl Forrester, has to get reviewed some sort of mad science review board at one point, I’m pretty sure.