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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)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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.