Comments on: mythbusters! http://www.somestrangeideas.com/2004/07/27/mythbusters/ theophile | bibliophile | technophile Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:56:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: john http://www.somestrangeideas.com/2004/07/27/mythbusters/comment-page-1/#comment-314 john Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:40:18 +0000 http://www.subvergence.org/wordpress/?p=7#comment-314 I just had to comment on this old post, because I'm watching this show right now. Everytime I watch it, it brings me to a happy place. I just had to comment on this old post, because I’m watching this show right now. Everytime I watch it, it brings me to a happy place.

]]> By: guest http://www.somestrangeideas.com/2004/07/27/mythbusters/comment-page-1/#comment-3 guest Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:51:39 +0000 http://www.subvergence.org/wordpress/?p=7#comment-3 I posted something about Penn & Teller's show Bulls&!$, and how it sounds like MythBusters is doing a better job on that beat. P&T's show bothers me because their methodology is as specious as that of the people whose work they are dissembling. Watch any of their shows and you'll see how they use faulty logical constructs to pick apart their victims. Even if their subjects *are* charlatans, P&T don't help us develop a more critical faculties when they are doing so much arm waving, themselves. -Rushkoff I posted something about Penn & Teller’s show Bulls&!$, and how it sounds like MythBusters is doing a better job on that beat.

P&T’s show bothers me because their methodology is as specious as that of the people whose work they are dissembling. Watch any of their shows and you’ll see how they use faulty logical constructs to pick apart their victims. Even if their subjects *are* charlatans, P&T don’t help us develop a more critical faculties when they are doing so much arm waving, themselves.

-Rushkoff

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