jollityfarm:

mortalityplays:

“but the Scarecrow was a scientist” you say, “all of his powers derived from chemical compounds and mind games”

he reglarly manufactures a city’s worth of hallucinogens on a blacklisted psychiatrist budget, I say. show me the numbers or he’s a wizard

In our neuroethology seminar in undergrad, we used to play a game where we’d figure out how to present the articles we read to DARPA (military/defense science in the US), to get funding for them.  The US spends far more on its military than its general science ventures, so we knew the former would be more lucrative.  Part of doing science is marketing your research so that funding sources see it as an investment.  We went to amazing lengths to work in ‘military’ and ‘defense’ themes for what was essentially niche research on animal physiology.  At one point we had considered wrapping drones in chromatophores for camouflage purposes.  There was an echolocation missile discussed too, and outfitting humans with prosthetic patagia came up more often than you would think.

What I’m trying to say is that Scarecrow might just be getting funding the only way possible: appealing to the military and weaponizing his research so he can get more funding.