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Busting Mythbusters

Is Mythbusters science?

  • Yes

    Votes: 125 51.4%

  • No

    Votes: 51 21.0%

  • Hello Hot Redhead Don't Care!

    Votes: 67 27.6%
  • Total voters
    243
Mythbusters has gone back and redone experiments after viewers commented that their set-up was in some way faulty.

In any case, the mere attempt to replicate a perceived effect is science.
 
rjh01 said:
You could say the viewers review the results of the experiments. Ok the Mythbusters got a wooden cannon to fire. Was that a fluke? Or maybe it was fraud? But if someone else did it and got the same result then we can say that it is possible to build a wooden cannon. Until then the answer is uncertain.
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Yes because engineers have to build multiple buildings to know that they will work. Stop trying to shoehorn science into every single dam thing.
Though I have to admit, the breathalizer test has always been suspect as far as I'm concerned. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but there's that little voice in the back of my head asking "Would the cops allow them to air the results if they worked?"
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They actually explained that on the air. They said that even if any of those tricks work ( Remember at one point Adam was giving off a BAC that would imply he is dead) they would just do a blood test.
 
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Loss Leader said:
Mythbusters has gone back and redone experiments after viewers commented that their set-up was in some way faulty.
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That's what I was looking for. Nothing could be more scientific than that one action.

But everything else ... any spare grains of salt?
 
Sledge said:
Interestingly, Penn & Teller have done an episode on alien abduction. Myth Busters hasn't, so far as I can tell, covered anything UFO-related. I wonder if your opinion will change if Myth Busters bust some UFO stories?
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interesting point, although the way the show is setup, highly unlikely.

Although, it would be interesting to see them test plausibility of being anally probed by aliens. (somehow I don't imagine such an episode ever airing, even if filmed).
 
Howie Felterbush said:
No kidding. What kind of scientist uses a cheap-ass microwave like that one?
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One testing whether standing too close to a cheap microwave can make pants evaporate?

Okay, I'm just making stuff up, but I would watch an episode experimenting with making Kari's pants evaporate whether it contained scientific rigor or not.
 
Hitch said:
One testing whether standing too close to a cheap microwave can make pants evaporate?

Okay, I'm just making stuff up, but I would watch an episode experimenting with making Kari's pants evaporate whether it contained scientific rigor or not.
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Because it would cause non-scientific rigor?
 
Sledge said:
Interestingly, Penn & Teller have done an episode on alien abduction. Myth Busters hasn't, so far as I can tell, covered anything UFO-related. I wonder if your opinion will change if Myth Busters bust some UFO stories?
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Adam quite plainly stated that he didn't want to do any more woo stories. This was at the end of the show with the pyramid power, etc. He seemed pretty disgusted with the whole idea.
 
JCM said:
Comments on "Mythbusters" scientific setup. What do you all think? Two special effects guys and a girl that all do math. What science degrees do they have? Is the show presented as science to the general/ do they accept it as such? I always thought of it as entertainment but a lot of people i know take it as science and think the hosts are all PhD'd.
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It's intended as entertainment. It may help interest young viewers in science and engineering.
 
JCM said:
Comments on "Mythbusters" scientific setup. What do you all think? Two special effects guys and a girl that all do math. What science degrees do they have? Is the show presented as science to the general/ do they accept it as such? I always thought of it as entertainment but a lot of people i know take it as science and think the hosts are all PhD'd.
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what does it matter, it's a TV show, it's fun to watch them blow stuff up.
 
Mythbusters is not perfect, particularly in the last couple of seasons, as a Science Teaching show, but compared to the hysteria and ignorance we have been getting from TV news over the Japanese tragedy the last couple of days.......
 
Halfcentaur said:
I usually find the show a bit too boring to watch, outside of the eye candy.
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I agree. It's not the content (for me), but the friggin editing. It all seems to be done on the presumption that people are just looking for a tiny excuse to flip channels, so they try to build 'suspense'.

They start 3 different story lines, finishing none.. Before every commercial break you get a 'coming up' description. Then, they come back and recap what they've done so far. Then they switch to a different story line. Ad nauseum. Just drives me crazy, and builds my desire to switch the channel.I'm not on the edge of my seat to find out if you can build a bridge from duck tape, believe it or no, I'm just watching for gentle amusement, and if you switch topics, force me to sit through a "what we've done so far.." segment, well, no, I'm switching channels to a show that stays on topic and doesn't treat me like an Alzheimer's patient.
 
Hitch said:
I would watch an episode experimenting with making Kari's pants evaporate whether it contained scientific rigor or not.
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Am I the only person who watched the episodes where she was eight months pregnant and just crossed the woman off my list?
 
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