I'd like Margherita. Please.

[GoodTaste]

The last expression "I'd like Margherita. Please." appears to be irrelevant to the former two. Does the cartoon mean that the speaker pretends to be making scientific reports while he's actually in a retaurant? Context decides everything and science sees through any veneer.

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New Scientist tweeted
@newscientist
All decisions should be based on science.

(The cartoon runs like this):

I have completed my review of the published materials and cross-referenced the data with evidence from colleagues and insights drawn from my own investigations.


A general thesis emerged from my research and I believe that my findings are sufficiently robust to give your question a conclusive answer.


I'd like Margherita. Please.



Source:
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1276773059152826368

 

[emsr2d2]

That's exactly what's happening. The first two sections are designed to make you think that the speaker is making an important speech about some scientific research. It's only in the third picture that you discover he's just ordering a pizza in a restaurant. He gives a very long-winded version of "I've read the menu, thought about it, and used my previous experience of pizza to now be able to answer the question "What would you like to order?"" And, of course, even that is more long-winded than a real answer would be.

Waiter: What would you like to order?
Customer: The [pizza] Margherita please.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Cross-post.

 

[GoesStation]

As the son of a scientist I can testify that the cartoon is accurate, so far as it goes. I remember standing with him at the desk officer's window in a London police station as he related his story, with antecedents, footnotes, citations and bibliography, to the baffled officer, leaving her none the wiser as to why we were there. I stepped up and said "He wants to report that he's lost his train tickets." She grabbed a form and said "Oh. Is it for the insurance, then?"