Discovery‘s Shark Week Web page and Facebook and Twitter sites filled after the show with complaints from fans who objected to the program, saying they were surprised a science-based network seriously discussed the existence of a fearsome creature when there is no evidence it exists today.
Wow big fallout for crying wolf – wonder what would have happened if they did a mocumentery on a truly extinct creature like a principled Liberal or the honest MP.
Good grief. Megalodon DID exist,28 to 1.1 million years ago.Of course they are now extinct. Does everybody on facebook and twitter have less than a grade 3 education? It’s shark week people on Discovery. And by the way,a Great White at 16 feet and 4 tons chomping on your leg is no less dangerous then megi was.It just takes the White a few more chomps then megi,who could have swallowed a full grown adult whole,no chomps needed.What are they teaching these days?
well now, I know for a fact these super sharks actually exist, just don’t look in the oceans for them, parliament hill would be a more likely place to spot them!!
3 grade education.
if it aint in a hero comic book we don’t believe it..
“…Does everybody on facebook and twitter have less than a grade 3 education?”
I wouldn’t worry so much about the future if that was only the case.
So perhaps that Discovery show (and CAGW reports) should be required to included this Canadian PSA video:
House Hippos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA
if link doesn’t work.
In my household the gullibility a 5 year old compared to a 9 year old became quite clear. Sadly, too many of our self proclaimed thought leaders fall into the 5 yo thought process camp. For example, anyone that took the CAGW reports of links between warming and violence and the Earth is warming 10x faster than ever studies seriously should hang their head in shame.
Giant sharks, vampires, ghosts, zombies, Bigfoot, men flying around in tights, flying to the asteriods to mine them, speculating about planets 20 light years away, free money, free phones, superficial Hollywood stars,and on and on…… the western world stuck in a permanent juvenile state. Fat, happy, and ripe for the picking.
On a more serious note, WUWT has a good post up about a real life, documented difference between using the real scientific method vs. the balance of probabilities method preferred by CAGW scientists. It’s about butterflies but it says so much more about the use and abuse of science by lazy and agenda driven science. There’s also a bit of psychoanalyzing at the end that pertains to both CAGW advocates and skeptics.
Fabricating Climate Doom – Part 2: Hijacking Conservation Success in the UK to Build Consensus! Large Blue butterfly
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/06/fabricating-climate-doom-part-2-hijacking-conservation-success-in-the-uk-to-build-consensus/
“It was laborious and detailed work, but exactly what good science dictates. Why the real agent of extinction had gone unnoticed finally became clear. Thomas discovered that just a few millimeters of change in the height of the grass, during the spring and autumn, could lead to the butterflies’ local extinction. The species of ants that the Large Blue plundered requires a very short grass habitat, which allowed the sun to warm the soil and their underground colony…Over the years, as more efficient animal husbandry reduced sheep and cattle grazing, pastures were increasingly abandoned.
[…]
Parmesan tactfully offered lip service to altered landscapes, but stated that her “probabilistic model” accurately separated the effects of land use from climate change. To demonstrate her model’s power, she wrote, “Consider the case of the silver-spotted skipper butterfly (Hesperia comma) that has expanded its distribution close to its northern boundary in England over the past 20 years. Possible ecological explanations for this expansion are regional warming and changes in land use. Comparing the magnitudes and directions of these two factors suggests that climate change is more likely than land-use change to be the cause of expansion.” That was a very odd claim.
This was the very same Silver-spotted Skipper that Jeremy Thomas’ detailed studies and subsequent conservation prescriptions had saved from extinction along with the Large Blue. Parmesan was hijacking a conservation success story to spin a tale of climate disruption.”
My bad.
I took your reference and ran with it in the Post comment section. Got on emotional response right away. 😉
I should be doing something useful, even if this is fun.
Yeah well, it’s pretty hard to prove a negative…especially in a court of law.
Declaring an alleged 1 million year extinct critter extinct is pretty shakey compared to the earlier alleged 65 Million year extinct coelacanth…..
But then:
http://www.dinofish.com/
Although I am doubtful a remnant Megaladon population exists, there is that Great White carcass, that washed up in OZ with a Megaladon sized bite out of him….
I recall the mockery that ensued after “Jaws” was released….then Great Whites were sighted all the way up the US eastern seaboard.
A lot of speculation about the cause of the alleged Megaladon extinction is linked to the formation of the Ismus of Panama. That the main food supply, whales, moved north into the cooling polar seas….much speculation…
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2508
Several years ago, I started referring to the Discovery show “Daily Planet” as “Daily Panic” after it became the “All Global Warming, All the Time” show. My wife was suitably amused, and I stopped watching shortly thereafter.
Although, from the ads I’ve seen, the new female host is extremely cute. 😉
I can’t wait till they do a show on Unicorns in the White House, or Capitol Hill.
Their natural habitat I here.
Nope … that’s the natural habitat of large slimey shape changing blood suckers…
So their problem wasn’t the woefully dramatised “documentary” of a rogue megalodon at all?
Oh boy….
Clicked it on and watched for about a minute.
My BS detector kept overheating.
So I moved on.
Was Globull Warming the reason for his return?