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Scientists doing everything and coming up with ideas on their own without any assistants or collaboration. They are also somehow mad genius experts on every field, like they are also physicist, biologist and engineer all in one. Most scientists in real life are specialist because it is impossible to be a generalist. There are also no such thing as home laboratories. You can't work in an uncontrolled and unregulated environment because it affects not just results of experiments, but health and safety is a major issue if things go awry.
"But how can we create a rocket powerful enough to reach the sun?!"
'Stand back, I'm an orthodontist.'
People think MDs are scientists, including MDs.
Similarly, when a movie scientist/engineer insists a thing can't be done, until an authority figure chews them out/threatens them. Then, there's suddenly a breakthrough.
There's other ways the person in charge can help!
Yeah I have sometimes the feeling that stuff like this is rubbed of to real executives/managers who e.g. think a small team of programmers can achieve a big application in a manner of days or something...
Movie scientists creates AI on their home PC.
Reality calls for billions in datacenters, gigawatts in power and a few 10,000 people.
Or when those genius scientists say something that shows they don’t even have a high schooler’s grasp of maths.
There are "home labs" but they'd be on par with the more interesting youtubers like Cody or Styropyro. Not a Tony Stark situation.