What is the EAMGSA?
The EAMGSA (Evil-and-Morally-Grey-Scientists-Association, better name forever pending) is a powerful underground council of evil and morally grey scientists that build monsters, undead armies, absurd diseases, death rays and everything else evil and morally grey to their hearts' content. It is made out of ridiculous cheesy cartoon villains, a definition that includes not just mad scientists but also among other things, necromancers, alchemists, the occasional alien, and any kind of occult dabblers. At the same time it also acts as a research fund. They appear to have infinite money between the lot of them and if you need funding for your death beam project, you can submit a proposal to them. There's also a huge roster of willing interns, junior researchers and aspiring minions just waiting for their chance to take part to some big evil breakthrough.
The meta rule for the EAMGSA is that their villainy is ALWAYS toony and somewhat ineffectual. They have so many monsters and calamities ready to wreak havoc but outside the walls of their council they are always heroically stopped in the end, or just build things for the sake of it and call themselves "evil" but have no desire to take any lives. They're more about advancing mad science than actually applying it. Anyone Realistically Evil such as an oil tycoon would raise eyebrows within the EAMGSA and they would not be accepted. Doc was not EAMGSA-funded but their successful revival of Laa made them a (sometimes begrudgingly) respected member of theirs and this allows them to get pretty much continuous funding from them as well as direct support on Laa-related matters. Laa, while not necessarily respected by EAMGSAists as a person, is a zombie that retained a lot of his old self and this makes him an interesting case study that they're invested in keeping alive.