What's the best degree path for a potential mad scientist?

[Peelee]

I think honestly the most realistic answer to this topics question is pharmacologist/orchanic synthesis chemist though.

Mad science is mad science, but this version pays the bills.

If you're not paying the bills by extorting the world with your creations, then is your heart really in your mad science? Were all the mad degrees worth it? Was mad academia just for the prestige? The mad student loans still need their databases destroyed, but that'll have to wait until the weekend because you have the 9-5.