After patiently observing CCTV for a few days, I found that the science-and-education programs are indeed a breeding ground for pseudoscience! Easter Island stone statues, wild men, Atlantis, UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles… they’ve aired almost every one of those classic, famous pseudoscientific cases. 《Approaching Science》 is basically “Entering Pseudoscience”; “Exploration · Discovery” is 50% pseudoscience; “Mystery Tracking” is 100% pseudoscience—utterly irresponsible pure pseudoscience! Even the programs that are not openly promoting pseudoscience never show the slightest trace of, or even an implied, promotion of the scientific spirit; everything is spreading pseudoscience! The popularity of pseudoscience in modern society: the media must bear 90% of the responsibility!
If you want to learn scientific knowledge, rather than watching science-and-education programs, you’d really be better off watching things like Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: 3000 Questions~!
Chigua Wang
2009-11-21 20:45:38 Anonymous 210.77.5.79 [Reply]
According to inside sources, the program 《Approaching Science》 actually has its own unspeakable difficulties: if it doesn’t broadcast this “pseudoscientific” content, the ratings are truly not optimistic, and the program would very likely be eliminated!
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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