Crap...PBS is at it again.

[Jim_MDP]

Here in the SF Bay Area, PBS ir running some dreck called "Phenomemon: The Lost Archives".

Tonight's hack job is "scientific prenomenon that turned out to not be true"

Let's see...they start with the Piltdown debacle, just to set the stage you know, and move on to savaging medicine, tech, Newton, Physics, hell it's only twenty minutes into the hour.

:(

[Jim_MDP]

Well hell...

Minute 24 and they're touting Cold Fusion. It's all proven true and the tech is just being "suppressed"

:(

[T'ai Chi]

Originally posted by JamesMGMDP
Here in the SF Bay Area, PBS ir running some dreck called "Phenomemon: The Lost Archives".

Tonight's hack job is "scientific prenomenon that turned out to not be true"

Let's see...they start with the Piltdown debacle, just to set the stage you know, and move on to savaging medicine, tech, Newton, Physics, hell it's only twenty minutes into the hour.

:(

So what exactly is bad about a show that is discussing these topics?

[Jim_MDP]

It spent the entire 44min. painting the scientific community as lying grant-grubbing frauds, endangering the public through shoddy research.

The cold fusion crap was just icing, they even closed the show with it. If he had any money, I'd suspect Pons of funding the show. :D

We had a thread a week or so ago on the one sided bs show PBS did last year (?) on "Intelligent Design" This was just more of the same.

[pupdog]

I recently complained to Maryland PBS for airing the Creationist show, and now they just aired (a typical fundraising seaon) lecture by Gary Null, marketer of questionable health supplements. They used to refer to PBS as "educational tv"--nowadays it can be like watching paid progamming peddling Q-Ray bracelets, lose-weight-while-you-eat-ice-cream pills, and perpetual motion machines.

[uneasy]

Originally posted by JamesMGMDP
It spent the entire 44min. painting the scientific community as lying grant-grubbing frauds, endangering the public through shoddy research.

The cold fusion crap was just icing, they even closed the show with it. If he had any money, I'd suspect Pons of funding the show. :D


You seem to contradict yourself, or maybe the show does. They are saying all technology is bad, but then saying that cold fusion technology is good?

Maybe it's a local thing. It's been a few months since I watched PBS, but the Mpls/St.Paul PBS station showed lots of great science and nature shows. One show even had double blind tests of accupuncture (failed miserably) and stuff like that.

[Ladewig]

"scientific prenomenon that turned out to not be true"

[snip] Newton,

What aspects of Newtonian mechanics did they identify as not being true?

[Eos of the Eons]

Originally posted by uneasy


You seem to contradict yourself, or maybe the show does. They are saying all technology is bad, but then saying that cold fusion technology is good?

Maybe it's a local thing. It's been a few months since I watched PBS, but the Mpls/St.Paul PBS station showed lots of great science and nature shows. One show even had double blind tests of accupuncture (failed miserably) and stuff like that.

Yeah, maybe the only PBS shows that can be shown to your community are anti-science ones because the science ones have been censored out...think that could happen? Maybe a creationist controls what the public sees in that community?

[tracer]

Originally posted by JamesMGMDP
The cold fusion crap was just icing, they even closed the show with it. If he had any money, I'd suspect Pons of funding the show. :D
And Fleischmann should've stuck with peddling Active Dry Yeast.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)