# Not “The Stand,” but “12 Monkeys"

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
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**Created:** [March 21, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-stand-but-12-monkeys/849958 "2020-03-21T15:30:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-stand-but-12-monkeys/849958/1 "2020-03-21T15:30:53Z")

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I was struck by how closely the “scientists” in _12 Monkeys_ model our current lawmakers - a bunch of ignorant, self-absorbed lawyers and career politicians whose last experience with anything scientific was in grade school, when they killed a bean they were supposed to grow.