Posted on 12/01/2022 12:00:41 PM PST by devane617
The Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week is the longest-running cable television series in history, filling screens with sharky content every summer since 1988. It causes one of the largest temporary increases in U.S. viewers' attention to any science or conservation topic.
It's also the largest stage in marine biology, giving scientists who appear on it access to an audience of millions. Being featured by high-profile media outlets can help researchers attract attention and funding that can help super-charge their careers.
Unfortunately, Shark Week is also a missed opportunity. As scientists and conservationists have long argued, it is a major source of misinformation and nonsense about sharks, the scientists who study them, and how people can help protect endangered species from extinction.
I am a marine biologist who recently worked with five colleagues to scientifically analyze the content of Shark Week episodes. For our study published in PLOS ONE, we tracked down copies of 202 episodes, watched them all and coded their content based on more than 15 variables, including locations, which experts were interviewed, which shark species were mentioned, what scientific research tools were used, whether the episodes mentioned shark conservation and how sharks were portrayed.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Sounds woke and butt hurt.
*sigh*
I get so tired of fighting the lie that the black population is increasing and they will soon become the majority, the percentage of blacks in America actually went down during the last census and is there are no blacks percentage wise now in American than 100 years ago.
It’s freaking nuts!
And if you want to talk world percentages? where are all the Asians in everything if that is what you want?
Asians make up the vast majority of the worlds population and yet I don’t see them a fraction as much as blacks in things.
Sorry, just annoys me. And even more with the even smaller group of gays, which are in EVERYTHING now.
I hope they do the “Sharknado” movies next!
While those movies are fiction, the scienticians who were consulted, and the acting by the actologists is SOLID!
I am friends with 3 white Mikes...
👍
“For our study published in PLOS ONE, we tracked down copies of 202 episodes, watched them all and coded their content based on more than 15 variables, including locations, which experts were interviewed, which shark species were mentioned, what scientific research tools were used, whether the episodes mentioned shark conservation and how sharks were portrayed.”
I sure hope it wasn’t taxpayer funded. What a joke.
I guess it’s important to mention the guy’s race up front.
I’ll keep that in mind.
The Jets’ QB is Mike White
You mean Sharknado isn’t real?🤪
Who watches this crap?
Even Shark movies suck...
Pgys.org gone wokie?
*sigh*
The show is a barometer for stupid (the REAL pandemic).
So, it's misinformation on both networks.
Scienticians and actologists.😆😆
You’re on a roll!
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