[Adder]

charging him namely that no man should utter any word in their presence, and that they should be placed by themselves in a room where none might come,

Ahh...a little child abuse in the name of “science”...

[SunkenCiv]

Assuming it actually happened, it was well before there was science, which is a method rather than a body of knowledge.

[Dr. Sivana]

Ahh...a little child abuse in the name of “science”...

I read a little Herodotus in college. I mainly remember that he had nothing good to say about the Egyptians. He described them as effeminate, and as eating in private but defecating in public.