I dunno... Don would be terribly afraid that if he did that, Scott would become drunk with power and start trying to use the advanced forms of humor first, before he was really ready for them, instead of starting with knock-knock jokes and working his way gradually up to the advanced forms. Knowing Scott, he would decided on the first day that he was ready for, say, sarcasm, or even irony, and the result would be a disaster such as the X-Men have never seen before. It would be appalling.

Don would try to explain that it's just like any other ability you recover after an injury takes it out of commission for a while - you have to start out slow and work your way up. "If I fixed Professor X's spinal transmission problem today - and I could, by the way, think about it won't you? - he wouldn't be playing basketball tomorrow." But Scott probably wouldn't listen.

Plus, on a somewhat more serious note, one of the things about Don's character that was only touched on briefly in EPDTMU is that he has a horror of mind control and mind alteration, especially the surgical kind. (This is a side effect of his having unwisely visited a Very Dark Future once.) So he would be highly unlikely to develop or install a cerebral implant designed to alter somebody's personality that way, even if it would be a change that benefitted all mankind.

He did develop and install cerebral implants for several other purposes, but the scope of EPDTMU wasn't wide enough for me to do more than mention the effect of one of them in passing. (And if you're looking for a challenge to your dexterity and your confidence in same, try installing your own cerebral implants sometime. :)

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