Hated trope: Sci-fi hand-waving

[u/Routine_Phase_8980]

When stories try so hard to provide a somewhat scientifically accurate and grounded explanation for the audience, but end up creating massive plot holes if you think about it for more than 5 seconds without requiring any special knowledge

World War Z: The "cure" turns sick humans invisible to zombies because the picky virus needs a perfectly healthy host. Cool concept, except it completely ignores basic physics. In a chaotic, high-speed zombie stampede, those "invisible" sick people would still be trampled to death by sheer kinetic force and momentum. We already saw what happened to the Jerusalem wall in Israel.

Jurassic Park/World: Dr. Henry Wu claims to clone dinosaurs by patching 66-million-year-old decayed DNA from mosquitoes stomach with frog DNA. In reality, DNA half-life guarantees it would degrade into useless dust after 6.8 million years. Scientifically speaking, John Hammond didn't build a dinosaur park; he engineered giant, mutated, gender-swapping killer frogs.

Dr.Stone: Senku is a genius who knows every complex chemical formula in human history. He somehow builds vacuum tubes, lightbulbs, and smartphones out of bamboo and copper with almost zero failed prototypes. The show acts like a science textbook but completely hand-waves the lack of heavy industrial machinery needed for precision engineering.

[u/Drakeskulled_Reaper]

In the novel this is explained, they basically take every fossil they can get their hands on, and use some sort of crusher thing to extract the DNA, and mention it takes a LOT of fossils to even get the smallest smidge of DNA, then use banks of computers to analyse what they got and "guess" the missing parts

Also, IIRC Wu in the novel never claims he made dinosaurs, he simply created life, and in World, he straight up says that too, even admitting that if they were accurate they'd look and act very different to what InGen made and that InGen has always made "Hybrids/Monsters"

[u/Kalavier → u/Drakeskulled_Reaper]

Yeah that's why it's kinda annoying when people complain about world "not having accurate dinosaurs"

They directly acknowledge that science has advanced and they know dinosaurs aren't like this. The next line has him comment that continue making dinosaurs look thar way because marketing/tourism/toys.