humanities
Explanation
This comic satirizes the dismissive attitude that STEM-oriented people sometimes have toward the humanities, and then flips the script.
In the first panel, a man says: "These humanities people are all morons. It says here that the scientific method fails to understand the scientific method! They wouldn't publish such tripe!" This represents the stereotypical STEM chauvinist who dismisses humanities scholarship as nonsensical.
In the second panel, it is revealed that the text is "a screenshot from a book review" rather than an actual peer-reviewed paper, and the man has never read the full work. Someone points out: "Wouldn't it be more scientific to reserve judgment until you have a decent-sized sample and see what peer reviewers say?"
The final panel delivers the punchline: "Damning. Right in the heart." The man acknowledges "I know. Right in the heart."
The humor lies in the irony: the STEM advocate who mocks humanities for being unscientific is himself being deeply unscientific — forming a sweeping judgment based on a single out-of-context screenshot of a book review, without reading the source material or considering peer review. The comic points out that the dismissal of humanities by supposed champions of scientific rigor often involves the very same intellectual laziness and lack of rigor they claim to oppose. The "right in the heart" response acknowledges the devastating accuracy of the critique. It is a sharp piece of meta-commentary on the "science vs. humanities" culture war.