The grafting of a live animal onto a human patient.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.

"Poor science that makes men rich."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.

"Is science working for our good?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.

"Science loses."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.

"Are victims of science."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.

Another unprovable "marvel" of big science: "silent sound."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.

The lead report: "Can pigs see wind?"  From Duke University's 1913 yearbook.

"In the glare of our scientific era, you can find no shadows, nothing that defies explanation?"  From Dark Shadows episode 177.

"The scientists are at fault."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.

How true those words are, even today.  Mister Medicine is diggin' graves.  From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

Obviously the dream came true -- Big Pharma and its branching machinations are not only televised but are the only news.  From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's 1933 yearbook.

That's actually a sunset, not a sunrise.  From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

From St. Joseph's 1973 yearbook.

Charles Fort established that astronomers get paid to hallucinate.  This article, about a non-existent comet that got named anyway, is further proof.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.

Hmm, what does this remind me of?  An unelected expert on a pedestal, proclaiming that there are germs in the air, from Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.

Science and politics were as inseparable in the 1920s as they are a century later.  From Otterbein's 1923 yearbook.

"Physicist turns gold into lead." From George Washington University's Hatchet, 1987.

Here's a great passage from William S. Burroughs (The Adding Machine) on how "coincidence" is a magic word for so-called rationalist science heroes to banish evidence of metaphysical phenomena.  Burroughs also notes a surefire way to prove that scientism deals not with logic but with faith.

“Perhaps it is time we stopped pretending that medical-sounding labels contribute anything to our understanding of the complex causes of human distress or of what kind of help we need when distressed.” —Professor John Read, qtd. in "Study: Psychiatric Diagnoses Are ‘Scientifically Meaningless’ In Treating Mental Health"

True even today -- the mask of science.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.