Date: 2014-05-22 04:37 am (UTC)
Screenwriters, like comics writers, are not likely to have much real scientific education, and they're vulnerable to scientific urban legends. And the "10% of the brain" one has been around for quite a while; Heinlein referred to the "silent areas of the brain" in his 1940s story "Lost Legacy" (anthologized in Assignment in Eternity). If a science fiction writer who was regarded as a standard setter for scientific accuracy could get that one wrong, it's not entirely surprising that screenwriters don't know about it.

I try not to let such things interfere with my enjoyment, but I can't claim unmixed success.
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