I've come to the conclusion that people who write for Cartoons
Are completely unaware of what Science is.
The SHEER number of times I heard a "scientist" say that something "defied science" after they done a scientific test to prove said fact is staggering.
Tip: Science is not the opposite of superstition and magic. Science is a method in which one can test validity. Believe it or not Science not only can easily prove the existance of bad luck, afterall bad luck can be defined as random negative circumstances and thus it is easy to set up someone for bad luck, but if you use a scientific test to prove something like "Magic" exists then you SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN THE EXISTANCE OF MAGIC! Science has many a time found folk tales and superstition true, many of the medicines we have today, and I don't mean alternative medicine, are folk remedies.
GAWD!
I don't know why it is. This past two weeks I have seen three shows where something "Goes against science" even when it actually is being proven scientifically to exist. One proved that bad luck as a cosmic phenominon exists but came to the conclusion that it means that science is bogus and nonsense rules the universe, another proven that magical wishing fountains exist and thrown out science entirely afterwords, and another said that "Magic is science we don't know yet" and then said "No wait this IS magic because I can't explain it and I was wrong" because stupid.
I've only seen ONE show where the adamant scientist said something that wasn't incredibly stupid about science and that was an anime and it was basically that the events he was seeing was so outside his ability to understand, at the moment, that he can only conclude it is a miracle or the will of a higher power. He didn't toss away science as useless nor did he toss away the idea that what he saw couldn't be scientifically explained in the future.