Pure evil causes birth defects

Unassailable evidence presented by the Institute for Dangerous Research's Department of Mad Biology.

UPDATE: This brilliant poster is the work of Allison Lonsdale. She made it for the 2010 San Diego ConDor. You can get a closer look at the poster and its text on the ConDor site. The photo is the work of Jerry Abuan. Thanks to all the readers who filled in the blanks on this amazing work of wonderous awesomeness!

Via penguinchris.

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“I don’t know where penguinchris got this. But it’s amazing.”

He re-tweeted it via Charlie Stross, I believe
- penguinchris
  
  For the record, as with many of the best things on Twitter, I saw it via William Gibson (@GreatDismal:twitter ) who retweeted it from Charlie Stross who linked to the image. I quote-retweeted it @ Maggie because I knew she’d like it. The “via trail” breaks down quickly on Twitter.
greebo

I’m going to use this to teach my grad students how to present their research. The description of the experiment and results is excellent. Wonder if their posters will turn out this wonderful.
xzzy

The 1000ppm subject should become a hollywood movie.

Cast has to include Samuel Jackson.
signsofrain

Watermark says image comes from here: http://jerryabuan.zenfolio.com/
Cormacolinde

The reference to Time Bandits is awesome.
- Conspirator
  
  Is that where the pure evil and the toaster come from? I couldn’t quite place it, but I knew it seemed familiar and that it was from something really weird.
  - Jay Fude
    
    I thought it was the amnityville toaster from illwillpress.com?
    - uglyredhonda
      
      It’s absolutely Time Bandits. It’s a reference to the scene at the end of the movie:
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6X9KcrXHwg
      - Donald Petersen
        
        One drop of that could turn you all into hermit crabs.
- http://www.plan8.tv Roanhouse
  
  MOM …. DAD!!!!
http://twitter.com/MrSnark Dodson Snark

Googling “Dr Allison von Lonsdale” gets http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Pix/2010/pix7590.htm
bcsizemo

I think this might have been a middle school presentation by Ellen Ripley…
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Ripley 7?
http://xians.blogspot.com Grampa Caligula

Such beauty! I weep in the presence of its genius!
http://twitter.com/TrinSF Leigh Ann H.

It’s from Allison Lonsdale, as another poster has pointed out. She’s also known for her song “LOL Together”, a parody of The Beatles’ “Come Together.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKVI2_Dl00Y
Philbert_Crenshaw

but…but… that’s the BLUND bear, a most excellent bear beloved by millions, and most particularly by my daughter… to see him spindled and mutilated and so cruelly displayed, it’s… it’s almost too much. For the love of Jeebus, he’s got his own photostream on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/blundbear/ !

Not to mention that IKEA stopped selling them and the little beggar will set you back $30.00 on e-bay. Dr. Von Lonsdale has made a serious investment in her research.
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones
  
  Ikea might not have discontinued these if they didn’t come packed flat with a totally inadequate plush Allan Key.
http://www.zachstronaut.com/ zachstronaut

Scientific Theory Slam in poster format. This needs to be a thing.
silkox

I do wish these things would use proper binomial nomenclature formatting.
markbellis

photographed at Conjecture 2010 in San Diego by Jerry Abuan.
And here’s her blog: http://caprine.livejournal.com/
lknope

Who knows what evil lurks in the uteri of Teddy Bears?
- Bonobo
  
  The Shadow knows!
  - lknope
    
    Dr. von Lonsdale knows!
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

dick cheney’s daughter seems ok.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  There are two. And one of them isn’t. Not by a long shot.
Lobster

#8 looks like it was born with its head up its own ass. Future politician?
professorpitbull

This would be a perfect post for the SCP Foundation!

Now off to lose a few hours of productivity perusing their wiki…
- Lobster
  
  I was just thinking that. It has that right mix of whimsy and sterile, clinical science.
milkman

I hope every one of my daughter’s projects in school are inspired by this.
CountZero

I have a teddy with two heads, three arms, and a patch over one eye…
- Felton / Moderator
  
  Zaphod Beeblebear?
That_Anonymous_Coward

I will find this “Doctor” and I will teach this “Doctor” pain for subjecting innocent teddy bears to medical torture in the name of “science”.
*goes to find torches and pitchforks*
Will Dunwiddie

With Dick Cheney’s recent heart transplant, scientists now have a rich new source of pure evil for future research.
http://mattdm.org/ Matthew Miller

It’s nice to see a big bold copyright notice slapped on the _photograph_ of the poster. Because, y’know, there’s where the creative work went. Whenever I photocopy a book from the library, I make sure to put _my_ copyright notice in the corner too, because that’s my property (the fruits of my labor, after all!) and I want to make sure everyone on the internet knows.