Interesting point! Iâd be OK with people calling them âevil mad scientist labs,â but I still think the generic âlabâ has more of a positive, harmless connotation than this negative one.
Iâd also be more sympathetic to calling them âlabsâ if (1) we had actual regulations around them or (2) they were government projects. Biosafety and nuclear weapons labs have a healthy reputation for being dangerous and unfriendly, in a way âcomputer labsâ do not. Also, private companies may have biosafety containment labs on premises, and the people working within them are labworkers/âscientists, but we call the companies pharmaceutical companies (or âBig Pharmaâ), not âfrontier medicine labsâ.
Also also if any startup tried to make a nuclear weapons lab they would be shut down immediately and all the founders would be arrested. [citation needed]
Interesting point! Iâd be OK with people calling them âevil mad scientist labs,â but I still think the generic âlabâ has more of a positive, harmless connotation than this negative one.
Iâd also be more sympathetic to calling them âlabsâ if (1) we had actual regulations around them or (2) they were government projects. Biosafety and nuclear weapons labs have a healthy reputation for being dangerous and unfriendly, in a way âcomputer labsâ do not. Also, private companies may have biosafety containment labs on premises, and the people working within them are labworkers/âscientists, but we call the companies pharmaceutical companies (or âBig Pharmaâ), not âfrontier medicine labsâ.
Also also if any startup tried to make a nuclear weapons lab they would be shut down immediately and all the founders would be arrested. [citation needed]