Deconstructing The Mad Scientist Trope | video essay

I consider myself a scientist. I don't think I'm mad, but I do like to get waaay too deep into stuff. Which is what happened here, I hope you enjoy it!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:28 Origins and types of mad scientists
15:30 Is the stereotype real?
21:04 Bioethics exists to protect us from rogue scientists
26:01 Conclusions
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Some parts of this video were based on things written in the book by Rebecca Skloot: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
If you're into ethics even a bit, please consider reading it.
Here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-...

Sources and further reading:

Mad scientist: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...

The mad genius stereotype: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
evolution of the mad scientist: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19831...
Mixed stereotype model ("competence" and "warmth"): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12051...
"Lost years of a Nobel laureate" (John Nash): https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/bu...
Chester Southam and the cancer scandal: https://tauruspet.med.yale.edu/staff/...
Southam cancer scandal NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/21/ar...
The Nurenberg code: https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2...
Ethics and clinical research Beecher article: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...
Evolution of ethics in clinical research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Paper published based on unethical research (Southam): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...