My husband went to a scientific meeting last week.

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18. The 1950s Japanese monster movies generally portrayed scientists favorably.

They showed government officials facing disasters induced by Godzilla and crew calling on scientists to direct responses and deferring to scientists' wisdom.

(Sometimes, regrettably the responses was, "We must get the atomic bombs from the Americans.)

This is how I remember these movies anyway.

I often reflect bitterly on how that cartoon does not apply to the real world. Congress invited testimony from James Hansen but basically ignored what he said in subsequent decades. I wish like he'd been treated as a scientist in a Japanese 1950s Godzilla movie.