Thursday, July 24, 2014

Discovery - messing with the Researchers!


The Shark researchers are up in arms.

And Discovery are having a ball.
They keep pushing the right buttons, elicit the usual indignant verbose Pavlovian responses, and are being handed heaps of free advertising for Shark Week in the process.

Guys, seriously - you gotta stop being suckers.
Just ignore those provocations and simply stop mentioning that shit.

8 comments:

I made the PT Barnum analogy years ago said...

In 1842, the infamous showman P.T. Barnum unveiled a truly bizarre creature. In his autobiography, Barnum described it as “an ugly, dried-up, black-looking, and diminutive specimen… its arms thrown up, giving it the appearance of having died in great agony.” The Feejee mermaid, as the mummified remains were called, possessed the torso of a monkey with the tail of a fish. Naturalists from around the world came to examine the specimen, enticed by letters explaining how a Dr. J. Griffin had hooked the strange creature while fishing in the South Pacific. At first Griffin was reluctant to share his find, but somehow, Barnum convinced him to reveal the mermaid to the public. Huge crowds swarmed the Concert Hall on Broadway just to get a glimpse.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2014/07/18/fraud-deception-lies-discoverys-shark-week-became-greatest-show-earth/#.U9EZRLGmXB8

DaShark said...

Yeah... seen that...

Great intro - and then she swallowed the bait, hook & sinker...

jsd said...

Though I don't watch Discovery -- so don't know how execrable their programs are -- there is another disturbing element to this.

Vast swathes of the population are clueless about the scientific method(s) and how plausible / powerful positions are established. This being the case, presenting nonsense as science not only undermines the status of science, but also reinforces the widespread view 'out there' that science / truth is whatever the hell you want it to be.

Given the poorly educated / gullible / conspiracy theorists / deluded snippets of absurdity to feed their fantasies is frankly to feed them poison.

jsd said...

'Given the poorly educated / gullible / conspiracy theorists / deluded snippets of absurdity to feed their fantasies is frankly to feed them poison.'

Oops: typo:- that should be...

GIVING the poorly educated / gullible / conspiracy theorists / deluded snippets of absurdity to feed their fantasies is frankly to feed them poison.

DaShark said...

Yes, but the unwashed masses want panem et circenses, and Discovery keeps delivering - whilst laughing all the way to the bank and thumbing their nose at all that verbose outrage !

In the big scheme of things, it matters not anyway - so far, the successes in Shark conservation were not democratic processes but the result of the right people talking to the right people at the right time.

What really continues to rile me, however, are all those pathetic media whores who on the surface hail from our ranks but upon closer inspection, are the very people that continue to aid and abet that shit in the first place!

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DaShark said...

Considering the precedent, I would NOT AT ALL be surprised!

Doppler shift said...

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When I asked him about it he said "That's MY thing dude!"

I wondered if he ever met Eli Martinez...