Oscar season is here. At the awards ceremony on February 25, the celebrities will be wearing their glad rags, gushing their thanks, and gabbing about science (we hope) as Al Gore's documentary
competes for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Yet scientists themselves have a mixed record at the movies, depicted alternately as heroes, wackos or evil geniuses:
1. Scientists first appeared in the movies in 1902, when bearded astronomers shot out of a cannon into space in Georges Méliè's
