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Discovery Channel’s ‘Shark Week’ Is Packed With Misinformation and Junk Science Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with unreliable information (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I don't have cable anymore but while I still did I swore off Shark Week and Discovery Channel as a whole after they deliberately tried to pass off a fake "documentary" called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives as real. I did the same with Animal Planet a year prior when they aired that fucking Mermaid "documentary."

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I swore them off after the fake mermaid "documentary" that had the fakest, ugliest CGI they tried to pass off as real.

Edit: this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaids:_The_Body_Found

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