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ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Movies and TV Shows@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 years ago

Discovery Channel’s ‘Shark Week’ Is Packed With Misinformation and Junk Science Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with unreliable information

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Discovery Channel’s ‘Shark Week’ Is Packed With Misinformation and Junk Science Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with unreliable information

www.smithsonianmag.com

ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Movies and TV Shows@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 years ago
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Discovery Channel's 'Shark Week' Is Packed With Misinformation and Junk Science
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Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with unreliable information and white male experts named 'Mike'
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    I don’t have cable anymore but while I still did I swore off Shark Week and Discovery Channel as a whole after they deliberately tried to pass off a fake “documentary” called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives as real. I did the same with Animal Planet a year prior when they aired that fucking Mermaid “documentary.”

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      I swore them off after the fake mermaid “documentary” that had the fakest, ugliest CGI they tried to pass off as real.

      Edit: this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaids:_The_Body_Found

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      What really started the whole “fi-sci” (fiction-science) on Discovery was Mythbusters. I know many people don’t want to hear it as they loved the show, but it was often very unscientific, especially their methods and the hasty and often false conclusions they made from their scientifically invalid tests.

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      Omg! I remember watching that documentary when I was much younger and thought it was absolutely real and was shocked that I had never heard anyone else talking about it. Then… I found out it wasn’t actually real and to say I was pissed off was an understatement. I haven’t anything from discovery channel since.

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    I mean we could stop saying words at discovery channel itself. Talk about junk science…

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    So no surprise here?

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      That is what your intestines told me.

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