15 Times TV and Movies Got the Human Body All Wrong
These screenwriters were only using 10 percent of their brains.
The human body’s complicated. Sure, day-to-day for most of us it’s just a pipe that turns food into poop and has a few other goofy bits sticking out, but it turns out there’s more going on than that. Organs, fluids, structural crap and a whole load of stuff that has to be present in just the right amounts, or just the right ratios, to make us people rather than gross floppy messes.
But you can’t blame filmmakers for sometimes getting it wrong. They’re creative, artistic types. You can’t expect them to know how many lungs a human body usually contains, or other obscure details like that — that’s for nerdy scientists to know. Little wonder, then, that sometimes movies and TV feature approaches toward anatomy that don’t quiiiiiiiiite add up…
Extra Chromosomes Don’t Mean Extra Strength
Dual Appendices… in Space
Brains Aren’t 90 Percent Dormant
Feets of Violence
No Pain in the Membrane, No Pain in the Brain
So No One Told You Pregnancy Was Gonna Be This Way
Real-Life Inbreeding Is Less Sexy
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Home A-groan
Demolition Man
Concussed But Unfussed
What a Knockout
Cool Women Don’t Look at Explosions
You Still Have Bones, Even in a Crisis
