SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Sad news from Variety today, the next season of Mythbusters will be the last.
"'Mythbusters' is — and will always be — an incredibly important part of Discovery's history," said Rich Ross, group president of Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel. "Adam and Jamie are enormous talents who have brought learning and science to the forefront of this network, and their legacy will continue to live on over at Science Channel. The 'Mythbusters' library will be moving over to Discovery's sister network in 2016, where I know audiences new and old alike will be able to experience and learn with Adam and Jamie and the rest of the 'Mythbusters' family."
I guess we'll just have to try it at home now.
[Ed: Headline updated, show was not "canceled".]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2015, @10:07PM
Mythbusters was also a military propaganda vehicle. Especially note their episode on not being able to get microwaves to do anything at all once the magnetrons were taken from the enclosures. Meanwhile, in LA County jail... [youtube.com] Hell, they could have just searched the US patent system or even just youtube for valid designs.... but "remote microwave gun == busted" according to Mythbusters.
Fuck Mythbusters. Their "science" wasn't even such. They had reproducibility problems themselves when people called them on the carpet for their own "busted" myths. A sample size of one and below average ability to reproduce many of their own "findings" demonstrates the show was pure entertainment and propaganda.
Pseudoscience should be ignored. The fact that their stars were "special effects" gurus instead of scientists should have tipped you off. It could have been a much better show, but that would have meant not lying to the public. I'm not glad the show is dead, but I'm glad they're gone.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tathra on Saturday October 24 2015, @11:34AM
because only "scientists" can do science and think critically? no, as somebody else already said, them not being certified scientists is very much in their favor because it promotes the idea that anybody and everybody can think critically and do experiments to verify things for yourself. people are put off of science by Bill Nye the science guy because he's a geeky science nerd, non-scientists doing science is more likely to get the masses thinking and experimenting.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday October 24 2015, @05:44PM
non-scientists doing science is more likely to get the masses thinking and experimenting.
And not dismissing science as elitist.