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Revision as of 05:39, 19 May 2010
The History Channel is a US based cable television channel that airs some really strange shows.
All Hitler, all the time
The channel had earned the unfortunate nickname of "The Hitler Channel", due to its need to fill the schedule with content related to World War II.[1] Military programming has since moved to its sister channel, the Military History Channel, leaving the channel to fill their programming gaps with shows about old stuff like Pawn Stars and American Pickers, utterly non-historical content such as Ice Road Truckers, Ax Men, Life After People, and the topic of the next section...
Ancient aliens
One of their classic intellectual achievements is their incredibly embarrassing series, Ancient Aliens.[2] Sadly, it namechecks huge numbers of our articles, so rapidly as to be difficult to keep up with, such as:
- 2012
- Ancient astronauts
- Baghdad battery
- Bermuda Triangle
- Crop circles
- Crystal skull
- Dendera lamp
- Erich Von Däniken
- Fermi paradox
- Jungle hypothesis
- Native American woo
- Noah's Ark
- Pangea
- Pyramids
- Spinning plasma vortex!
- Zoo hypothesis
To quote a typical Ken-like talking head featured on the show, discussing of all things, the coming 2012 apocaplypse "you would think that had to come from extraterrestrials" - sure, but only for very small values of "think".
At least near the end, Michael Shermer (founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic) gets a few moments to call it all rubbish.
Otherwise, it is so much non-stop woo, it sounds like a train whistle! So much bullshit, even the farmers are complaining!
Every segment has the announcer saying "could it be that ... this is evidence of ancient aliens ... maybe!"
At least Ghostfinders is on the Sci Fi channel, where it belongs.
See also
Parallel universes
An episode of the channel's show The Universe (which you would think would have real science) went so far as to promote parallel universes as being solid scientific fact.[3]
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ All Hitler, all the time A viewer of History could be led to believe that nothing of note happened in recorded history outside of World War II and ancient Egypt.
- ↑ Yes, this is really on the "history" channel The show's webshite. Warning: You will laugh hysterically.
- ↑ The episode entitled Parallel Universes, in fact