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The Politics of Fake Documentaries
This piece originally appeared on Zócalo Public Square.
“If NOAA is lying to us about the existence of mermaids then they’re definitely lying to us about climate change.”
It was August 2014 and I was flying home from the Third International Marine Conservation Congress in Glasgow, Scotland, where I has just chaired a session on the impact of fake documentaries on public understanding of science. When my seatmate—a fifth-grade schoolteacher—found out that I’m a marine biologist, she decided to share this insight with me.
She was referring to Mermaids: The Body Found and Mermaids: The New Evidence, a series of Animal Planet specials that aired in 2012 and 2013. Mermaids: The New Evidence was, at the time of airing, the most successful show in Animal Planet’s history. The conceit: that mermaids were real and that scientists from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration were actively hiding their existence from the world. A few dedicated scientists, hunted and harassed by government agents (at one point, security footage literally shows men in black removing evidence from a lab), were fighting to expose the truth.
The shows were fake, though you could be forgiven if you didn’t realize that. Animal Planet, like many D
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Mermaids
John McIntyre
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Ryan Anderson
This show presents itself as a documentary, and leads you to believe it's recounting supposedly-true events. There's just a short "disclaimer" at the very end telling you it's fictional (in case you didn't already know). Crap like this masquerading as actual science is misleading and contributes to the dumbing-down of our society. Giving it one star, because I can't give it zero. Meanwhile, wishing the "Science" and "Discovery" channels would go back to science shows, "History" would go back to history shows, and whoever invented the "let's follow a shop full of morons"-format Reality Show dies in a fire.
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Mermaid hoax drowns Animal Planet's ratings record
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