Phrost
The Fighting Skeptic
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The thing that irks me is that these channels which portray themselves as educational keep putting on shows like this which continue to spread misinformation about the martial arts to the general public.
Most of the show was decent, despite the obvious fact that Mr. Hayes 'infiltration' wouldn't have worked as planned without the fact that the scenario was a just that: a mockup. In a real situation, there would have been no pretense of going in there to clean the cameras and such.
Still, as I said, all that could have been worse until they started the bit about the clarivoyance. They did mention a few times that the Ninja encouraged the myths about their abilities, but the show never outright linked the statements to the bits about the remote viewing. Instead, they played it up.
For the most part, we didn't even bother to cover this over at Bullshido. These channels (TDC, TLC, etc) have put out such garbage about the martial arts that this is just par for the course.
For example, their "Top 10 Martial Arts" show, which apparently wasn't judged by any criteria other than possibly the popularity of movies which feature the arts in question.
Most of the show was decent, despite the obvious fact that Mr. Hayes 'infiltration' wouldn't have worked as planned without the fact that the scenario was a just that: a mockup. In a real situation, there would have been no pretense of going in there to clean the cameras and such.
Still, as I said, all that could have been worse until they started the bit about the clarivoyance. They did mention a few times that the Ninja encouraged the myths about their abilities, but the show never outright linked the statements to the bits about the remote viewing. Instead, they played it up.
For the most part, we didn't even bother to cover this over at Bullshido. These channels (TDC, TLC, etc) have put out such garbage about the martial arts that this is just par for the course.
For example, their "Top 10 Martial Arts" show, which apparently wasn't judged by any criteria other than possibly the popularity of movies which feature the arts in question.
I didn't see this particular show, and I know Discovery, TLC, etc usually put on garbage shows, but Unsolved History seems to be pretty good for the most part. They seemed to take Kennedy's assassination apart pretty well, running experiments, and the recreations seemed pretty accurate. Of course, it all comes down to ratings, but I'd trust Unsolved History before I'd trust the shows about UFOs.