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[TD1]

Biology is the best science.

*Stifled snigger*

[SirQuiamus]

Math happens in the brain, the brain is biologics.

Checkm8 Matheists.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Biologics is just an ill-defined subset of physics (unlike chemistry, which is a well-defined subset of physics).

Your turn, biopostates.

[Arx]

Biologics is just an ill-defined subset of physics (unlike chemistry, which is a well-defined subset of physics).

Your turn, biopostates.

[TD1]

Awh, poor Chemistry never gets a word in. Who will defend its honour?

[Avis-Mergulus]

Awh, poor Chemistry never gets a word in. Who will defend its honour?

Chemistry knows perfectly that it's just low-energy physics. That's the definition I was taught when I was studying it, anyway.

Biology has a lot of pathos (nuclear weaponry as a horseman of the Apocalypse? How about vehicle accidents? Pfah.) and a really odd selection of achievements to compare (as in, how about the whole of the industrial age as an achievement for physics?)  in this comic. I mean, I get that it's a joke, but that's really unimpressive.

On an unrelated note, what's that spike on her graph near ~1925?

[TD1]

Onset of war would probably increase disease? Just a guess.

[Dutrius]

There was a massive outbreak of the Spanish Flu in Europe at the end of WWI. Someone probably brought it to the USA. That's my guess.

[scrdest]

There was a massive outbreak of the Spanish Flu in Europe at the end of WWI. Someone probably brought it to the USA. That's my guess.

It actually began in the USA. Yeah, it's a misname.

[Dutrius]

There was a massive outbreak of the Spanish Flu in Europe at the end of WWI. Someone probably brought it to the USA. That's my guess.

It actually began in the USA. Yeah, it's a misname.

Fair enough.

Yay for misleading names!

[Graknorke]

Could someone please explain what is going on in this image?

-snip-

What about times when biology has made it easier to kill people? Anthrax is a thing that exists, and it's hardly new.

[scrdest]

What about times when biology has made it easier to kill people? Anthrax is a thing that exists, and it's hardly new.

Bioweapons have been used for centuries before biology as a science was developed. You could make the case that bioweapons got better, but that's a double-edged sword of any knowledge. On the other hand, there are no instances of, say, Mongols building makeshift nuclear weapons and lobbing them into besieged castles, as metal as it would be.

Toxins could also qualify, but that makes it muddier, as they are on the point of contact of chemistry and biology, with some purely synthetic and others completely natural.

[Flying Dice]

Biology is the best science.

*Stifled snigger*

You misspelled Psychology. Or possibly Sociology. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Akura]

I can't believe I just watched this entire playlist.

[Graknorke]

Bioweapons have been used for centuries before biology as a science was developed. You could make the case that bioweapons got better, but that's a double-edged sword of any knowledge. On the other hand, there are no instances of, say, Mongols building makeshift nuclear weapons and lobbing them into besieged castles, as metal as it would be.

So I guess you could argue that if you were going on the definition of a good science being one that's resulted in the least harm. But then the best one would be parapsychology or something, which has done no harm whatsoever, even if it has no benefit either.
But if you do include good things as well as bad ones then suddenly physics isn't looking so bad next to biology, given how it's driven most technological advance for at least the last century.

EDIT: And also antibiotics are nothing new. People have been using penicillin without really understanding for ages.