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You know, there was a time when I said with a small measure of pride that I refused to watch regular tv and only watched the documentary channels like Discovery, History, and the like.
Well if anyone has been watching, all those channels gave up actual science and history in favor of nonsense.
First the overwhelming glut of religious type nonsense they put on. Shows about heaven/hell, the antichrist, etc- totally ignoring that those silly stories represent but one of many mythologies with equally silly stories.
And that crap might be fine for the Trinity Broadcasting Company, but for a channel that is supposed to be based on science and reality- well it's simply embarrassing.
Same goes with the ghost hunting and psychic shows. They are complete and total bunk- poor even for the Sci-Fi channel, and yet put on what USED to be a reputable channel.
History Channel has taken to airing every conspiracy theory every kook can come up with. Again, it's not history, it's nonsense and they lend it legitimacy by even addressing them.
The token skeptic gets his 10 seconds to debunk the piles of manure the conspiracy theorists (or so called psychics or ghost hunters) load up in the other 59 minutes of show.
This is the worst. I expect this sort of crap from regular tv. But these channels pretend to be scientific or historically accurate. They are not. When someone hears some bit of stupidity on the Discovery channel, they think that it must be a credible source.
Sadly, these channels are perhaps WORSE than the Oxygen channel and the other channels that peddle pseudoscience and religion. You can't expect reality from those bunch of hacks, but the History channel ought to have a higher standard.
And the Weather Channel used to actually be concerned with warning people about storms instead of proffering bad science
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Can't you religeous knuckleheads get together and do something meaningful? You could find a cure for cancer with the amount of time you spend proselytizing.
You guys may not have seen them, but in addition to School House Rock, we had short little science bits on TV called Snippets. They may have been a local thing though to the Boston area.
In each, some small science experiment was described using household items. Like taking a folgers can and putting a weight and rubber band inside to make it move. Or picking up an ice cube with a piece of string.
About 2 minutes each, but they were things you could really go to the kitchen and try in 5 minutes.
Miss that sort of TV.
You guys may not have seen them, but in addition to School House Rock, we had short little science bits on TV called Snippets. They may have been a local thing though to the Boston area.
In each, some small science experiment was described using household items. Like taking a folgers can and putting a weight and rubber band inside to make it move. Or picking up an ice cube with a piece of string.
About 2 minutes each, but they were things you could really go to the kitchen and try in 5 minutes.
Miss that sort of TV.
Umm, Mr Wizard anyone? Hell, even ten or fifteen years ago there was Bill Nye the Science Guy. I have to pick and choose which shows I watch on History, Discovery, National Geographic (I hate the way they started calling it "Nat Geo", like it's some hip LA nightclub) just like I do on any other channel. It kind of sucks, but I agree that what really sucks is when people catch half a show on Discovery Science and repeat it like it's hard and proven fact.
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I can't wait for the "Intelligent Design Channel" or better yet... "The Scientology Channel".
And now we have the Oprah Channel
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"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. ... How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?"
Brian Dunning- the guy that does the Skeptoid podcast, is a priliminary judge for the Randi Challenge, and just released a book--is pitching a show in LA right now.
It'll be called Skeptologists and he is casting for the show right now. No shit.
He needs an astronomer, medical doctor, psychologist, physicist, and other professionals for on air personalities. Details at the Skeptoid website. If you have the credentials here's your chance to be on TV.
Hope his show gets picked up. If you haven't checked out the podcast, the scientifically minded will love it, the believers in bullshit will hate it.
The death of educational TV
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