Shark Week and Screwing Over Scientists - Nerd Rage

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Shark week is on Discovery Channel, now in its 25th year-- but does it do more harm than we think? The shark programming has a lot of positive points and teaching topics-- but some of the programming has verged into speculative pseudoscience territory-- like researches Kristine Stump and Jonathan Davis, who were misled about the shark week programming they would be speaking about. Davis' interviews were taken very far out of context last year for "Voodoo Shark" which put him on an imagined storyline in which he was racing against fishermen to discover a mythical monster shark. Is the lying unforgiveable? Or, has the fabrication become a part of TV production? Kim Horcher makes her case in this installment of Nerd Rage.

Read More: http://www.thewire.com/culture/2014/08/scientists-say-shark-week-is-dead-in-the-water/376040/

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40760/title/-Shark-Week--Veers-Into-Fiction-------Again/


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