Dr.clef's ukulele

☆he wasn't tuned me in YEARS☆

[clefs--ukulele]

Mostly a personal diary that might HAPPEN to be scp related.

Never in my life have I felt more sympathy and disdain for a character at the same time for a character than Dr. Alto Clef.

Ask me my opinions, tho I can't promise that I'll answer speedily tbh

Pls keep in mind that I'm a minor 😐

ABOUT ME

Like I already mentioned, I'm a minor

I'm black (where are my poc scp fans at 😭)

She/they Ig? I'm supposed to be the instrument, but I don't really care

I can't promise I'll post consistently or that I won't deactivate this account at the slightest inconvenience. Be warned before you get attached.

Literally, just don't interact with me if you're a bigot. Plain and simple.

[clefs--ukulele]

If you ever see a typo in one of my post PLEASE ignore it. I come up with all my ideas at like 4 am, I'm sleep deprived.

[clefs--ukulele]

Kondraki, strelnikov, and clef. Mentally ill man sandwich. I can't continue here, yall gotta email me for more.

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[attilathehuntsman]

...

I think this is one of the themes of the SCP Foundation. The Foundation goes to enormous lengths not to kill anything unique when they can understand it. They'll even let it coexist, to whatever extent gives them maximum control. But they can't reconcile this moral conflict. They lock their creatures up to try to defend the world from them, but they'll condone spending however much of the expendable they have to in the process. And they don't really approach understanding either, because the whole idea of preserving normalcy is about protecting their understanding from what it doesn't already contain, the concept that learning about things outside of your framework of reality is fundamentally distressing and only a few special people should have to shoulder that burden.

It traps them in the paradox. They can't bring themselves to destroy the chance at knowledge, or to cleanse what is exceptional. But they still feel threatened by it, by the circumstances of the meeting. So they try to change those circumstances to the circumstance of containment, which is necessarily costly in blood, in resources, and in impact.

This is further complicated by the fact that there are often good reasons to contain something that is legitimately dangerous beyond just being weird, and good reasons not to destroy an ill-understood anomaly. These categories often overlap, creating cases that justify, even necessitate the Foundation's strategy. But necessary evil isn't generalizable beyond states of actual crisis. The classification of the anomalous employed by the 05 council treats many SCP objects as if they fit this overlap even when they clearly don't.

The ethos of "we die in the dark so they can live in the light" also describes not just the idea that the knowledge represented by the anomalous is dangerous and should be restricted, but, in my opinion, also a desire to spare the rest of humanity this dilemma. SCP Foundation employees know that even the most innocuous anomalies are threatening to the average person's sense of normalcy, and that rejecting something with good qualities for unbalancing you creates a sense of moral conflict. The dark that they die in is moral uncertainty, while protecting the light of the status quo.

It mirrors trends like color blind racism and don't say gay. The system identifies something as threatening and proscribes violence against it, then protects the conscience of the average citizen by obscuring the existence and humanity of those marginalized by this violence. In many versions of the canon, the SCP Foundation couldn't exist without the contributions of clandestine free ports like Three Portlands and Esterberg -- settlements forced to be clandestine by the policy of the veil. The status quo doesn't function without the victims it refuses to acknowledge.

OP's original observations reflect a cultural attitude of the seperation of man and nature. In particular, the exaltation of man above nature, at leisure to impose his will on it thanks to his rationality, and therefore non-culpable for destroying it when it gets in his way. It construes elements foreign to our social systems as obstacles to overcome, the only alternative being providing some use to our species. An alien, here, fills the same role as a tiger or native tribe in 19th century adventure stories -- excitingly foreign and in need of subjugation.

The SCP Foundation, appropriately, also traces its roots to the 19th century. Canons disagree, but it clearly came about at the height of colonialism, and from the merger of secret organizations largely associated with colonialist institutions, such as the British, French, and American governments, Meiji Japan, and the East India Company. The fact that the 05 council leadership has access to the Fountain of Youth has kept the core of this organization largely consistent since it's founding, depending on canon.

From those roots in determining "normalcy" in a colonialist, euro-centric context based on Enlightenment ideas of reason and science at the time, the Foundation permeated the modern world order, founding front companies in every economic sector and entering symbiotic (though rocky) relationships with nation states. In short, the Foundation inextricably became one with of the status quo they defend.

This inherent bias made the idea of the anomalous fraught from the beginning. Many things contained by the Foundation had been an accepted part of society for thousands of years, such as thaumaturgic rituals and ghosts. These were rejected from normalcy not because they were more dangerous than things left uncontained, but because they conflicted with the supremacy of the "rationalist" viewpoint.

Every alien predator, slumbering monster, even vengeful ghost has its place within the natural -- if they were truly supernatural, they would not be in nature. The horror they cause is from their displacement, their disruption, and the threat of their intersection with humanity. Many stories even emphasize the age of the creature, being from a land "time forgot" -- one that has failed to make one for anthropic progress.

Killing these things restores safety, but it also restores sanity, and the sense of living in a human made world. That is what Lovecraft often tries to convey in his horror -- that the terror of a creature may not be in what it is, but what it means for the scope of one's existence. Killing the alien is the rejection of the foreign, the ancient thing a resubjugation of the Earth. It comforts us that such things cannot challenge our place in the world. That is why Cthulhu cannot die, because that comfort cannot be restored, anymore than we can unlearn of our mortality.

Taken in aggregate, again and again, the truth of these incursions cannot be denied. The SCP Foundation cannot escape its fascination with this truth, which is why it studies the anomalous. Nor can it escape that its normalcy relies on the exploitation of what was never actually paranormal, but merely normal, and so it contains what it cannot dispose of. But the threat to the brittle rules of convention that the Foundation clings to as a essential is inherent in these beings. That is why they must be othered, for self protection.

Sauelsuesor Sedira Phoibe Ohirume-no-muchi-no-kami Galatia Nira Servus Tenebris Lucy SCP-179 put it well when she indicted the Foundation for its solipsistic priorities. She wouldn't pledge herself to them because they didn't care for others she cared for, "others beyond the little walls of rules and bone and laws and flesh you build around yourselves until you don't even remember them."

That is why we fail to see the tragedy in killing what is alien to us. Because we don't even remember that we could see it as a tragedy.

[kondraki]

How do you keep track of the D-class? Do you recognise any of them individually? What happens if one goes missing, if they ever do?

The old way of identifying D-class would be via physical tattoos of their number in two different places, usually a limb and then somewhere on their central body mass. We would hope to find a piece of them big enough to see this number, or we would just check the body for the number. A lot of us were uncomfortable with that, though, for reasons which I thought were obvious but apparently not – for all we go on about how we’re “just following orders”, the similarities to Nazi concentration camps were a bit too much for us and we successfully campaigned to have it changed.

Identification is now through a small microchip that is inserted into the forearm of each D-class via a simple injection. It’s the same kind of thing that’s used for high-level staff, to ensure we can always be located and traced. It’s also loaded with an individual’s personal details. High-level staff have a few other things, though; D-class just have the chip. This helps us track where they all are, and provides a way to locate bodies for further research or to be disposed of. Sometimes this isn’t possible, thanks to the nature of some SCPs, but most of the time it is. The chips are very sturdy and can survive extreme temperatures, and they’re small enough that they avoid most damage. Thanks to advancements in Foundation technology, they’re also dirt cheap to produce –cheaper now that all the tattooing equipment, much faster to implement, and we don’t all feel like Nazis, which is always nice.

It’s not uncommon to recognize some of them by face. Long-term experiments will lead to that, and a good lot of D-class are relatively chill, meaning that while staff aren’t friendly with them, there’s at least standard pleasantries and acknowledgements. We also have records of their names and where they came from, which can be referred to.

[clefs--ukulele]

I think one of the reasons the foundation treats some of the less deadly humanoid anomalies (and objects lowkey) with such incompetence and even straight up malice is because they're so used to everything they contain wanting to kill them.

Like it could be argued the way they treat 682 is justified because it wants to destroy all life. But like if you look at a lot the children ones or go on a document and see the destination change from like Euclid/safe to Keter you already know it's because those fuckass researchers can't be respectful for shit.

Case and point, that girl made out of water who they were shocking because it "motivated" her. And then when these entities rightfully lash out they are deemed evil and put under even harsher considerations than before.

While I do think most of this is simply because they're eager to get a better understanding or they want to protect the outside world but i don't really see the point while your actively tearing the anomaly apart to do so.

[vigilskept]

really i think the most insidious part of white supremacy is the way it will convince white people everything is actually About Them. being called out isn’t about you. poc expressing frustration at your behaviour isn’t about you. it’s about how you are affecting others. step one is literally just de-centre yourself from the conversation. anyone who’s not white has already had to learn this lesson the hard way and it gets tiring waiting for the rest of you to catch up

[spoockiepie]

ngl but clefnikov is a really underrated ship, much better than clefdraki or clight slop

[asexual-cat-furry]

I think Clef has the non-native english speaker problem of random accent switches but like, really bad. One minute he sounds like he's never been outside the texas ranch he was born on and all he knows are Cow, Big Guns, and Stupid Pickup Truck. Next sentence he sounds like a pubcrawler from southern england. Three minutes later, he speaks again and now he has the most painful most janusz ass polish accent you've ever heard

And I bet he indulges in it. Does it on purpose sometimes. If you think you've nailed down where he's from, he's gonna switch to the most random accent as far away from that place you guessed as he can. Loves how it fuckes with people

[furretsworld]

every time i see someone's lineup of scp staff designs and they're all white twinks i die inside just a little bit more

[anomalouslystupid]

I changed his design a lot bc I keep looking at everyone else’s and they’re so good 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗I saw someone give him a tooth gap bro it was so cute why didn’t I think of that??? Am I stupid??? 😔😔🪨

I feel like my artstyle changes in everypost but that’s b/c I’m having an artstyle crisis rn 😢😢😢🤕🤕🤕🤕😵😵

[girldraki]

Sorryyyy for being mean and terrible but the thing abt how people write meri is that sometimes i think you guys are treating her like a prize clef gets to have for suffering so she can slot perfectly into the father-daughter dynamic he's alwayyyyysssss wished for. And thats not what "people" is. You're not making her a person.

[girldraki]

FACT: Alto Clef made up his backstory so people would feel bad for him

[cheesinternationalalliance]

I love Doctor Alto Clef fans on tumblr/ the official SCP wiki because they will create/ write the most EARTH SHATTERING, TOE TICKLING, TEAR JERKING, VOMIT INDUCINGLY sad/ angsty content about clef that will change your whole world view and then the post under it on their page will be a shitpost about clef that says “Cleffypoo and Kondrakiwacky” and then it just shows these gay grown ass men in elf onesies doing the Macarena, looking pissed off the whole time😭

[rustedgearvalentine-deactivated]

Now that we've all seemed to agree that Iceberg is indigenous, can we all agree that Alison Chao is wasian

[scaredshadowsswap]

Hiii! Im glad to see you're back and well! I absolutely love your writing. I just wanted to request how the staff would get along with someone on the kinder side?

With the Foundation, a lot of people forgo kindness because they believe it makes people weak or unable to perform their duties. You use kindness as a strength. You can do the unethical things, but you save it as a last resort whenever possible.

I also want to mention though, I’m temporarily suspending any writing for the character Shaw. Due to ongoing issues, much of the information relating to Shaw is gone, and for good reason. I think they are in the process of writing a cool new story for the character Dr. Shaw, one that is not tainted by the horrible things done by the previous author. Once that is released, I will happily update this!

Clef:

Clef is the type of person to go with the flow no matter what, so I don’t really think your kind nature would “throw him off” per se, but it would intrigue him greatly. A lot of what he does is inherently unethical, so it would be difficult for you to work with him.

You and Clef meet at one of his reality bender seminars. After meeting a bender in real life and losing a friend to it, you knew they were something to take seriously. The Foundation has a strict “kill first, questions later” policy around Reality Benders that you are all too familiar with, but the thought of killing someone who doesn’t even understand their abilities doesn’t sit right with you in spite of the things you’ve experienced. You and about 50 others were in a room, when the windows and floors began morphing and carnivorous tables surrounded you. Clef had a team watching every single one of you, but what was unexpected was your behavior. You spent the entire duration of the attack aiding those who were hurt, bringing them to chairs and such. You evaded the desks with speed, but were non-combative. You were seen as a low-level threat. Which is why it was so shocking that you, with lightning speed, grabbed a folding chair from the side of the stage and hit Clef over the back of the head with it. You found Clef’s blind spot and you were faster than any staff could react. Although hurting anyone wasn’t ideal, you knew how dangerous reality benders could be, and knocking the source of the madness unconscious the most ethical thing you could do. It would be giving 50 others the time to leave.

Clef awakes to you sitting over him and checking the bruise on his scalp. The room was empty, every other person left as soon as the aerosolized counteragent was preemptively pumped into the air to allow the emergency medical team to do their job without dealing with mayhem. They all ran out early, but you stayed to bandage his head. Once you noticed he was awake, you grabbed his ukulele to use his proper name to address him. Even in his slightly dazed state, he was intrigued by your behavior. His first comment was that if he was a reality bender, you should’ve killed him instead of staying to help. You replied with a certain denial. The Foundation kept him alive for a reason, murder would be wrong unless absolutely necessary.

When Clef demanded you work under him, you thought it was retaliation for hurting him, but it wasn’t. In the day-to-day, Clef isn’t usually surprised by much, but you surprised him. Your behavior is fine to him, although it is abnormal compared to what he is used to. He actually thinks that you use your kindness in a way that it’s an advantage to you. He’d be annoyed if it made you spineless, but you’ve had multiple arguments with him where you’ve advocated that what he is doing is too unethical to the D-class. He is especially hard on you, but he likes having you around because he needs someone to catch him on some of his plans sometimes.

Even though you’d probably never let him know it, you’d likely dislike him intensely. He’s a liar and a manipulator, and the longer he’s known you, the more he has made you stop taking people at their word. You realize through solely a professional lens, you both do your best work together because your personalities are nearly opposite. He realized you were a natural at dealing with reality benders, and he was right. You do amazing work together. However, on a personal level, you might hate working with him. You’re forced to hurt people a lot in situations where you’re dealing with reality benders, and you wish you were in a position where that wasn’t such a requirement.

Kondraki:

Kondraki…doesn’t get it. He doesn’t get you. And he’s not gonna try all that hard to do so.

The last time he left the lab for an extended vacation, SCP-408 got way out of control. It started harassing people because nobody remembered to feed it. However, he recently noticed its sugar water would always be filled up when he got into work late. If he stayed home an extra hour because he was tending to a headache, he no longer had to deal with any agitated butterflies.

It wasn’t until a few months later, when he walked in about 30 minutes late and saw you filling up their sugar water. He had no chance of recognizing your name, but was pretty sure you lived in the same Foundation apartment complex as him. Although he very gruffly questioned you on why you were accessing spaces without permission, he didn’t do a whole lot otherwise.

After that, he noticed you a lot more. He noticed you actually lived in the apartment directly to his left, and deduced that you probably fed the butterflies if you could hear him stumbling about his kitchen fixing a hangover cure through the walls. That made sense. He asked you a few weeks later how long you’d lived there, and you replied that you’d been there for a year and a half. But he was able to leave the Foundation Site for longer periods of time now that he knew someone cared enough to actually feed the butterflies in his absence.

Once the two of you start working more closely together and talk for a bit longer, he realizes that he won’t ever understand your outlook on life. He’s not going to try, either. In the Foundation, politeness can kill, and he’s not going to try and see it from your point of view. But he won’t mind taking advantage of your nature. Sending you out for his groceries with a list and some cash slid under your door because “you’re already on your way”, which you never once complain about. Stealing your food when he’s incredibly drunk and never apologizing for it. Asking you to take on some of his paperwork “just this once”. Living next to you for multiple years and never bothering to learn your name. You put up with parts of it, because you don’t really believe that kindness is something that can be taken advantage of. But you’re also not afraid to put your foot down or say no when he asks for something you don’t have the time for, because you’re not gonna give him a poor-quality result.

As for you, you don’t really mind him. You realize that he doesn’t really care about you, but he does in some ways respect you. He becomes more mindful of how loud he is when he’s hungover, and he leaves $5 more than he thinks the groceries will cost to make sure you’ll have enough to cover his stuff. He leaves a copy of his key with you in case he is drunk and loses his keys again, so he trusts you, but you don’t really know him that well because I don’t think he would let down his guard around someone he believes can’t last very long in such a calculating environment.

Gears:

Gears sees kindness as a weakness. That is it. He does not believe that you are well-suited for a Foundation environment.

When you first came to Gears’s attention, it was because you had gotten two humanoid SCPs to converse with you, both of which hadn’t made a sound in months. One was a 23-year-old female, the other a 12-year-old male. You had complete interview logs, too. None of the supervisors or researchers could figure out what made them talk to you and not anyone else.

Upon bringing you in for a “chat” (read: interrogation) he realized something almost immediately: you were committed to understanding the SCPs. You read their entire files, including their retrievals, and you realized that the two that were not speaking were put into incredibly traumatizing situations where they watched their friends and family get hurt. The 12-year-old watched his dog get tranquilized for making too much noise and almost alerting the neighbors, and it was clear from the recordings that he thought his dog was murdered. He refused to speak because he thought making noise was dangerous. You were able to convince him to speak by breaking protocol, showing him a recent Facebook photo of the dog from his mom, and giving him a stuffed dog plushie. He would only speak in the quietest whispers, but you got vital information from him. The woman was also taken in a traumatic way, but you were able to build a repertoire with her and she would write responses to you on a slate.

The Foundation, and by association Gears, do not like this at all. Every Foundation enployee is supposed to be replaceable, so the fact that they are becoming dependent on you and you are breaking standard protocol makes Gears nervous. However, you point out that you filled all the correct paperwork to be able to break standard procedure, and upon pulling those files, Gears realized that was also true. He realized you were slowly introducing both SCPs to other researchers, and slowly seeing them less and less as they became more comfortable speaking around them.

So, Gears lets you continue in your position, but he is watchful. He will always be weary of you, despite the fact that you follow the procedure plans to the letter and that you work to make the anomalies comfortable around other researchers as well. You are not making yourself irreplaceable, but Gears believes that your nature will inevitably make you refuse an order, so he will almost never trust you.

Iceberg:

Iceberg learned a lot from Gears, so he might have the same reservations. Completely honestly though, I could see Iceberg going either way.

If you and Ice met in the cafeteria, I think you’d get along pretty well. Many staff find him forgettable or unlikeable, but you’d talk to him. Go along with calling him “Ice”, which other researchers don’t do because they think it’s stupid. He’d totally be down to have a friend to mess around with explosives with, and for once, he’d feel like he isn’t just some forgettable, replaceable cog in the machine. He likely will say a lot of wack stuff, but you’re very kind when he does. You wouldn’t make any weird faces, you’d just listen and then possibly try to provide a different perspective. I think he would definitely view you as lesser than himself if your clearance is lower, and view you with jealousy if you were able to get a clearance that was higher.

If you met Ice due to work, he probably would not like you all that much. The reason being, if you’re meeting him at work, then you are pretty unique to the Foundation. Even if your clearance remains low, you are most certainly going to get assigned to unique tasks. If Ice never met you in any other context outside of work, there might be some resentment.

Glass:

As a newly assigned therapist to Site-17, I think you and Glass would be on pretty much the same page. I believe it is somewhere in the notes of some tale that he got reprimanded for advocating to be able to speak to the SCPs, and I think a kind researcher would likely have the same approach.

You meet Glass for the first time because he scheduled a one-on-one meeting to speak with you. He’d stop spinning his pen with his fingers just long enough to shake your hand properly. Upon introductions, you both handle things very professionally at first, not diverging from the standard pleasantries. However, Glass’s job is to figure out if you will be good at your job, so he quickly pushes it. He breaks standard procedure to test you by warning you about some folks. You, like everyone else, respond with enthusiasm.

However, what he notices when checking in on you at six months, at a year, at two years, is that you never once lose that enthusiasm. You are there to do a job, and your job is to help others be able to do their jobs. And you love your job! The stories people tell are fascinating and you genuinely enjoy helping them solve a problem or navigate an issue. You’ve started having people request you specifically, and Glass is proud of you for that. He still loves his job and loves to help the people around him, but he became more guarded as time went on. You deal with some of the “difficult” folks with ease. Glass is excited that you’re able to maintain such a positive environment, but it also takes some of the burden away from him. The Foundation tends to try to send all the “difficult” folks to meet with him, so the fact that you can also manage those situations is something he is relieved about.

Rights:

Rights is regarded as one of the few people on site who did not become a cold and calculating figure. She maintained a lot of herself, even in the stressful environment of studying SCPs, so I think she would get along very well with someone she realized was not the same cold and calculating as everyone else.

She saw you around a few times, but you had never really interacted. But she started hearing stories about you. Just hearing your name occasionally, until she’d heard it enough that she could recognize you easily. She’d see you sometimes and you’d be smiling and joking around with some folks. At first, people are hesitant, but they do enjoy being around you once they understand you are nice to them because you want to be, not because you want something.

She orchestrates a situation where the two of you have to interact. It could be a work thing, it could be bumping into you on the way to your office, but she struck up a conversation and the two of you began to build a friendship.

Rights would love hanging out with you outside of work. Even if it’s not your scene, she’d drag you to the mall and find a way to make sure both of you had fun. Most of the people here would be work friends, but she’d be a really good friend inside and outside of work, and she’d be willing to work to maintain that relationship.

In addition, you would like Rights. She’s fun, she’s cool, and if necessary, she will absolutely say mean things to others on your behalf so that you don’t have to.

Strelnikov:

Strelnikov is weary of you from the moment he meets you. Reason being, you smile what a Russian would consider an unnatural amount. He gets on well with the MTF folks because they’re usually experienced, and therefore, don’t usually show a whole lot of emotion. But you’re the sprog, no experience in an MTF at all. He would very likely request your transfer if you smiled even once while he was in the general vicinity, even if it was at mealtime.

Upon requesting your transfer, he gets access to your files and is shocked to learn you came from a GOI. You have more experience than most of the people in his MTF. Regardless of which version of Strelnikov you subscribe to, the man has a decorated past and can recognize that you have an absurdly specialized resume; one that is valuable to a team like his.

He doesn’t want to pull you into his office to talk about it, because then he’d have to admit he tried to transfer you. So, he trails behind you after work to find you at a bar, by yourself. It’s a perfect, casual opportunity to talk.

However, when he walks in, he’s surprised to find you sitting alone, sipping your drink. Next to you, there is another drink, one he recognizes from the glass as a Moscow Mule. Once he walks in, you look up at him with raised eyebrows and a slight smirk, and offer him the drink. He wordlessly sits down next to you. You are quick to inform him that you know he was trailing you, and you were able to put together why. It gives him an opportunity to ask his questions properly about your experience. By the end of the night, and possibly partially due to the quantity of alcohol consumed, he has gone from skeptical to something akin to admiration. You aren’t cold and calculating like the Foundation usually is. So many of the soldiers he sees have no heart for what they do, but it’s clear from the conversation that you do, and he will really respect that.

[doomsayersrequiem]

The SCP universe is so weird 8ecause the SCP Found8ion itself is so o8viously evil 8ut the universe itself exists to valid8 their goodness

txttletale descri8ed it really similarly when she talked a8out how fascism is o8vectively true in warhammer 40k

Like the Imperium is evil, 8ut everything a8out them is completely justified in-universe 8ecause in it, fascism is o8vectively true

So like, the SCP Found8ion owns legions of slaves that they regularly execute in mass killings and kill and ruin the lives of countless innocents to contain anomalies or even just to preserve their own secrecy, 8ut they are the heroes of the story

And like

Their entire mission is flawed and itself limits societal and scientific progress

So like

They contain things that are anomalous; things that can't 8e explained 8y science. 8ut if science can't explain something's existence, then science is wrong, not the thing

Like

A couple hundred years ago we thought the sun revolved around the earth

If they were around then, they would have personally murdered gallileo for his discovery of heliocentrism

Like, they essentially exist to preserve the status quo, to make sure that society never progresses past what they want, to 8e the personal ruler of their eternally stagnant Neverland

And like

They have "explained" scps where they are no longer considered anomalous, 8ut that design8ion wouldn't exist if they didn't 8ury them and not let the wider scientific community know a8out them

Like imagine if there was a massive agency to keep people from learning a8out the water cycle

Or gravity