I think some of there tests are bogus...you?
2007-01-24 08:18:27 · 14 answers · asked by Myra G 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I did not mean they are faking it, I mean that some of their tests are not the best way to bust a myth.
2007-01-24 08:24:13 · update #1
They sometimes bust myths, but mostly they blow stuff up. Most of the tests are to see if a given myth is possible in real life, not necessarily whether it's true or not. For example, they showed you could make a cannon out of a tree trunk, but never determined whether someone actually did. IOW it's engineering, not historical research.
2007-01-24 08:26:20 · answer #1 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you don't think some of the tests are really effective, go to the Discovery Channel website and leave a message saying so on the Mythbusters discussion forum. They do listen to feedback like that ... in response they've done a few "Myths Revisited" shows where they take another look at myths where the viewers felt they didn't quite do it right. They've overturned some, but by no means all, of their original conclusions that way.
So, drop 'em a line and tell 'em what you disagree with ... you may eventually see your feedback on TV! :-)
2007-01-24 09:07:00 · answer #2 · answered by Navigator 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No way, the Mythbusters rule!! They're absolute geniuses. I believe in all the myths they test. They are very scientific and thorough. Nothing fake, they do it and do it right.
You say some of their tests aren't the best way to test myths. How do you know? I highly doubt there's too many people out there doing what they do. Who's to say they're doing it wrong? Besides, they get the job done. And in the end they love to go a bit overboard, but that's for the fun of it.
For those of you here saying they're doing it all wrong I'd say this, call up The Discovery Channel and tell them you could do a better job. Maybe they'll hire you.
2007-01-24 08:26:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The only ones that I question are the ones where the either don't tell what all the steps were in the process, or where they leave out the names of ingredients in the formulas they are using (missing chemical names). Leaving that information out is acutally more dangerous than telling it as it encourages the curious to find the info and do their own tests, or to test with different things until they find the right one. Other than that I think that they use the best means available to determine the legitimacy of some of the ideas they have "busted".
2007-01-24 08:39:13 · answer #4 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they try their best to make it look like they're in the myth If it doesn't work, they'll just do it the Mythbusters way.Im a Mythbusters fan and i just know that the test aren't fake.
2007-01-25 11:20:39 · answer #5 · answered by Falcon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they do. Myth busted! lol
If you think they should use a different test for a particular myth, you can e-mail them with suggestions. (Watch the show, and they'll give the e-mail address.) How cool is that?
2007-01-24 08:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by Gee Wye 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the parable i could particularly opt to work out busted is that horses are 4-legged angelic beings with supernatural powers of niceness and love that go beyond species. i could opt to work out horses dealt with greater as persons HORSES and much less as stereotyped pets. some Arabs and TB are loopy. some are not. some mustangs are so inbred they are brainless. some are surprising. As for blue eyes - I experienced a collection of complete brothers. One had a blue eye on one component, the different had the blue eye on the different. apparently, the two have been spooky of issues on the blue-eyed component. turn their heads so as that they might see it out of the brown eye, and that they have been ok. in addition they could hop over a shadow if it became on the blue eyed component. yet turn their heads and that they might tell it became a shadow. Kinda unusual. And saved me hopping as i became coaching one as a three yo and the different as a 4 and had them the two on a similar time. WHich eye! became my significant concept for a number of weeks. i attempt to discover jobs horses take exhilaration in. I had a qh colt who became scared to death of cows, yet enjoyed to chase a ball. he's enjoying polo now. Had a TB mare that hated to be ridden, yet became an awsome buggy horse. My appy gelding loves fastened shooting. I pull that pistol out and he starts dancing. He leaves the line like a shot and places me in precisely the appropriate distance to pop each and every balloon if i will artwork the triggers rapid adequate. and because i've got not got ahold of the reins at any time interior the technique and he's working thoroughly off leg cues, i could say he likes it or he'd blow the trend.
2016-11-01 04:40:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing they don't do to bust a myth. If you can do better, email them and tell them they're wrong. Evidently you don't watch the show too closely....
2007-01-24 08:34:30 · answer #8 · answered by flstc88 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah they do and if you think that a test could have been improved they usually take the advice of the fans and redo them
2007-01-24 09:03:08 · answer #9 · answered by msX 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love MythBusters and I learn from it, too.
2007-01-24 11:06:55 · answer #10 · answered by nowyouknow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋