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    8 movies that really got science wrong

    In the height of summer blockbuster season, we asked experts like @geochurch and @DrRichBesser to fact-check the big-screen science behind some memorable movies.
    by STAT staff Aug 15, 2018 5 minutes

    Science has been a reliable friend to Hollywood, providing the genetic magic that brought dinosaurs back to life, the errant drug that gave our planet to the apes, and the radiation that helped man become spider.

    But has Hollywood been good to science in return?

    In the height of summer blockbuster season, we asked everyone from George Church to Dr. Richard Besser to doctors-turned-politicians to fact-check the big-screen science behind some memorable movies and detail the scenes that made them squirm in the theater.

    And we’d like to give a hat tip to @TheSciBabe aka Yvette d’Entremont, a former analytical chemist, for inspiring this list. Her own pick is 2012’s “The Avengers.”

    “Jurassic Park” (1993)

    Starring
    Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern

    During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

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