Comments on: What will it take? http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/ The official blog of the Skeptologists Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:38:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stargate Atlantis http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-9418 Stargate Atlantis Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:47:27 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-9418 Like to watch Stargate Atlantis episodes and also Lost. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. Like to watch Stargate Atlantis episodes and also Lost. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

]]> By: ejdalise http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1506 ejdalise Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:09:04 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1506 Might one possible venue be to offer it On Demand, where content can be selected by topic. Your half hour (hour?) show could be broken up by individual topic and offered in a menu. Just wondering if this is of interest, as I know on demand has been used as an avenue to offer content that would otherwise no likely see the light of day in regular broadcasting. Not to say you guys won't get there, but . . . I don't know; perhaps it's where I live, but I don't often meet people who would be considered your target audience. Quite the opposite, in fact. Either way, good luck with your efforts. Might one possible venue be to offer it On Demand, where content can be selected by topic. Your half hour (hour?) show could be broken up by individual topic and offered in a menu.

Just wondering if this is of interest, as I know on demand has been used as an avenue to offer content that would otherwise no likely see the light of day in regular broadcasting.

Not to say you guys won’t get there, but . . . I don’t know; perhaps it’s where I live, but I don’t often meet people who would be considered your target audience. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Either way, good luck with your efforts.

]]> By: Beelzebud http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1505 Beelzebud Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:57:58 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1505 Will you be featuring free market, free trade, libertarian propaganda on the TV show, like Mr. Shermer does in his posts here? If so, thanks but no thanks. I find it quite disappointing that you have let this site, and possible TV show be tarnished with posts like that, which distort figures to make purely ideological points that really aren't grounded in skepticism or science. Will you be featuring free market, free trade, libertarian propaganda on the TV show, like Mr. Shermer does in his posts here? If so, thanks but no thanks. I find it quite disappointing that you have let this site, and possible TV show be tarnished with posts like that, which distort figures to make purely ideological points that really aren’t grounded in skepticism or science.

]]> By: Ian Mason http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1481 Ian Mason Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:55:27 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1481 Get Gil Grissom to wear a Brights badge? Seriously, my main source of accessible science is National Geographic TV (Europe). Naked Science, Bible Revelations etc. are really good. Are they re-edited for American consumption? Otherwise, I can only echo the others. Keep on keeping on and the break will come. Self promotion: Use the link and see my poetry site! (Sorry about that but I'm trying to break through too, in my own field) Get Gil Grissom to wear a Brights badge?
Seriously, my main source of accessible science is National Geographic TV (Europe). Naked Science, Bible Revelations etc. are really good. Are they re-edited for American consumption?
Otherwise, I can only echo the others. Keep on keeping on and the break will come.
Self promotion: Use the link and see my poetry site!
(Sorry about that but I’m trying to break through too, in my own field)

]]> By: Courtney Franklin http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1373 Courtney Franklin Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:17:38 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1373 Maybe you can get Discovery channel to air the series, they could always drop crap like Smash labs and all those crime shows they have. Maybe you can get Discovery channel to air the series, they could always drop crap like Smash labs and all those crime shows they have.

]]> By: Pat in Montreal http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1360 Pat in Montreal Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:31:50 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1360 Anything reasonable than can balance out the woowoo like "Ghost hunters" and other silly shows like that will be more than welcome!!! Pat Anything reasonable than can balance out the woowoo like “Ghost hunters” and other silly shows like that will be more than welcome!!!

Pat

]]> By: LovleAnjel http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1296 LovleAnjel Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:35:06 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1296 I have to give out some fictional kudos to NCIS, Law & Order:SVU and House. Putting aside the overwhelming lack of forensic and medical accuracy (a pet peeve of mine), every time something supernatural or psuedoscientific happens, the shows come down on the side of reason. The UFO landing is a cover-up for a murder, the homeopathic doctor is put on trial for negligent homicide, the psychic is a charlatan AND the murderer. Every 'spooky' plot point ends up having a rational explanation, which just warms the cockles of my little black skeptical heart. I have to give out some fictional kudos to NCIS, Law & Order:SVU and House. Putting aside the overwhelming lack of forensic and medical accuracy (a pet peeve of mine), every time something supernatural or psuedoscientific happens, the shows come down on the side of reason. The UFO landing is a cover-up for a murder, the homeopathic doctor is put on trial for negligent homicide, the psychic is a charlatan AND the murderer. Every ‘spooky’ plot point ends up having a rational explanation, which just warms the cockles of my little black skeptical heart.

]]> By: Devil's Advocate http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1293 Devil's Advocate Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:00:44 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1293 Alt-marketing - If networks or cable won't pick up The Skeptologists, or even if they do, get it listed with Netflix, then market the crap out of it. Alt-marketing – If networks or cable won’t pick up The Skeptologists, or even if they do, get it listed with Netflix, then market the crap out of it.

]]> By: David Vanderschel http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1282 David Vanderschel Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:59:53 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1282 In a fictional vein, The Mentalist on CBS is a step in the right direction. The important fact is that this new show is popular! I even enjoy it myself. The hero in the Mentalist is sort of a modern day Sherlock Holmes who solves cases with clever observation and, yes, even guile. He says things like "There are no such things as psychics. I used to pretend to be one myself." A good dose of skeptical thinking is woven into all the scripts. I am very pleased with the success of this show. (FWIW - Though it also promised to be similarly enlightening, I was very disappointed with CBS's Numbers show when it premiered last year.) In a fictional vein, The Mentalist on CBS is a step in the right direction. The important fact is that this new show is popular! I even enjoy it myself. The hero in the Mentalist is sort of a modern day Sherlock Holmes who solves cases with clever observation and, yes, even guile. He says things like “There are no such things as psychics. I used to pretend to be one myself.” A good dose of skeptical thinking is woven into all the scripts. I am very pleased with the success of this show. (FWIW – Though it also promised to be similarly enlightening, I was very disappointed with CBS’s Numbers show when it premiered last year.)

]]> By: MIke B http://www.skepticblog.org/2008/12/09/what-will-it-take/#comment-1269 MIke B Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:18:55 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=626#comment-1269 Good to hear there's a chance of this actually going on the air. I think it's the perfect time for it; the general public is getting cynical (in a good way) and just about ready for a nice does of critical thinking, as long as it's packaged in an entertaining wrapper. Good to hear there’s a chance of this actually going on the air. I think it’s the perfect time for it; the general public is getting cynical (in a good way) and just about ready for a nice does of critical thinking, as long as it’s packaged in an entertaining wrapper.

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