I find it’s getting harder and harder to watch Eureka. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a fun show and fills the space between the Atlantis season ending and everything else starting nicely. I love the setting. I love the casting and characters (except for maybe Matt Frewer as the Australian zoologist, Taggart).

It’s the science that’s getting hard to stomach. Now, I’m not a scientist. I’m not even a detractor of soft science fiction– unless you count that time in high school when I got in a fight with Vince and Mark about the plausibility of the TNG series finale, which I don’t. There’s a statute of limitations on these things.

Last week on the show, in the episode E=MC…?, someone grew chicken parts from stem cells, which is all fine and good. Except that the lack of a chicken brain attached to the parts turned everyone who ate them into idiots. Would I have been okay if they had left it at that? Sure, it would still be silly, but I could let it go. Add in some technobabble with fictional terms? Fine. But they didn’t. They decided to explain: low levels of GABA can cause Alzheimer’s in rats. What? How is that related to stupidity or lab grown chicken? One leap of logic per episode, please.

I guess the writers themselves should lay off the genetically-engineered poultry.