Posted on 01/10/2012 4:25:36 PM PST by matt04
“I DO think there’s a ‘squatch in these woods….”
What the heck has happened to science on television? Animal Planet has a show called “Finding Bigfoot,” with a guy looking like he just cleaned out all the pork rinds at the Piggly Wiggly telling us he believes “there’s a “squatch” in these woods….”
“Sasquatches DO exist,” insists another sasquatch hunter, doing his best to look and sound serious, in the show’s accidentally comical commercial.
We shouldn’t single out Animal Planet for scorn, however. The channel does have silly company. The History Channel has a show called UFO Hunters. Planet Green has a show called UFOs over Earth. These and other channels show Nostradamus programs more regularly than they show microscopes and telescopes combined.
Against this backdrop, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised by incessantly ridiculous claims and headlines about global warming.
Global warming causes earthquakes. Global warming causes depression. Global warming causes tsunamis. Global warming causes wife beatings. Global warming causes acne. Global warming causes AIDS. Global warming causes a greater likelihood of a UFO invasion.
No, seriously, scientist-activists and their media allies have alleged each of the above, and then some.
Just as microscopes and telescopes are glaringly missing on the “science” and “history” shows about sasquatches and UFOs, so too is the Scientific Method glaringly missing from alarming global warming claims.
“Global warming is a crisis because our computer models predict it will be.”
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The Finding Bigfoot show is funny. Ancient Aliens is hysterical, especially when they have on Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, better known in our household as “Crazy Hair.”
OMG. Another reference to this Bigfoot show this week!
I made sure my husband understood the other day, “we are watching this purely for entertainment; not any serious information!”
It’s like a train wreck. We can’t stop watching. It’s too fun to make fun of them and pick it apart.
At some point it may be abandoned, though, as I did “Ghost Hunters”. Difference being at 1st I was impressed by GH. I have never been impressed by FB.
and my all time favorite, “we are in a slight cooling cycle caused by global warming”.
I never saw Bigfoot, but I saw “Goodfoot” while watching the BCS Bowl game last night. He was the Alabama kicker.
Phony Baloney TV. It’s a damn shame. Some of the shows on these channels used to be pretty good. Now, “reality show” overkill has destroyed all of that. All of the “reality” on these shows is now staged is has become as phony as those “funniest” video clips and bloopers are.
Beware the “researchers”. There is nothing that that says that they have to be a scientist or have any kind of special training.
Hell, I research local history but don’t claim to me a historian.
And SiFy has that supidass show called Ghost Hunters which expanded into Ghost Hunter Academy......
"whoa, did you see that?"..
I don't know what's worse, the show itself or the fools the channel hopes to attract..........
They need to test the theory that Bigfoot is actually Bobo.
Pop culture?
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At least Ghost Hunters doesn’t attribute every creek or shadow to be a ghost. They actually say that didn’t find any evidence to say a location is haunted, unlike Finding Bigfoot where every episode I saw has “proved” Bigfoot existed.
History Channel has a show called Pawn Stars. What is historical about pawn shops?
I believe the possibility of there being a real Bigfoot is extremely low. However, I have always hoped such a creature would be found. The program “Finding Bigfoot” has exterminated the last vestige of my hope.
History Channel has a show called Pawn Stars. What is historical about pawn shops?
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