Not only is Veronica Mars on a bit of a slide this year, but apparently its portrayal of laboratory procedures in last week’s episode sucked, according to Jenny F. Scientist. She lists a number of things the episode got wrong, including:
- Nobody stores their monkeys in the lab. This is what animal facilities are FOR.
- Because to work with primates, or even be in a room with them, you need clearance, training, and a TB test. And then you have to swipe in….
- Also, the chick next door? Nobody covers their entire lab space with experimental plants and grow lights. They make greenhouses for that. Really.
- And while tea does live in lab, not so much next to the sink. Safety gets upset.
- Nobody wears their lab coat all the time.
- Much less into the school cafeteria.
- And they didn’t have anything in their pockets. And the coats were all clean. Come on.
More at the link.
Didn’t see the episode, but unfortunately for us fellow diners, some people DO wear their lab coats to the cafeteria. I yell at these people unless they look like they might have the ability/desire to ruin my career.
Things like that show up so often on tv. There was one particular one in “Eureka” that bothered me, where it had the brilliant scientist dip things into his nice new bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid. I’ve only in my second year, but even I know that’s pretty dumb.