einstein
Explanation
This comic satirizes sensationalist science journalism and how media outlets frame scientific results. The top panel shows a headline proclaiming "Einstein Proven Right Again, Say Researchers," with the text explaining that all attempts to defeat Einstein have failed and experts plan additional tests. The bottom panel shows a contrasting headline: "Einstein Way Off, As Usual, Confirm Scientists," with equally confident reporting about how a prediction of local hidden variables "continues to be super duper dead stupid wrong."
The joke is that Einstein was both spectacularly right and spectacularly wrong about different aspects of physics -- particularly regarding quantum mechanics. Einstein's theory of general relativity has been confirmed repeatedly, but his objections to quantum mechanics (especially his belief in local hidden variables, as critiqued by Bell's theorem experiments) were proven wrong. The comic highlights how the same scientist can be portrayed as an infallible genius or a stubborn holdout depending on which of his ideas is being discussed. It also lampoons the breathless, non-nuanced tone of science news coverage, where everything is either a triumphant vindication or a total debunking, with no room for the messy reality that even the greatest physicists get some things right and other things wrong.