A New Reality Show Will Pay Cash if Players Can Convince Experts the Earth Is Flat
A New Reality Show Will Pay Cash if Players Can Convince Experts the Earth Is Flat
'Flat Earthers,' a new docuseries and competition show on The Network, will offer a cash prize if people can convince experts the Earth is flat.
Don't play games with disinformation.
Treating disinformation as worthy of equal-validity debate, itself "sends a message", validating the disinformation.
Bias towards fairness means that if the entire congressional Republican caucus were to walk in to the House and propose a resolution stating that the Earth was flat, the Times would lead with "Democrats and Republicans Can't Agree on Shape of Earth."
Will McAvoy, The Newsroom
I understand why you're saying that, but I also think a show like this might convince fence-sitters that flat Earth ideas are nuts.
And James Randi and Penn Jillette could both say a lot about the benefits of using TV to mock pseudoscience. Adam Savage too, while we're at it.
James Randi and Johnny Carson have some takedowns of fake psychics that are some of the best things ever shown on television.
what concerns me is they’re never going to make a show where the players never win, so that means sometimes “experts” are going to supposedly be convinced that the earth is flat. that eventuality is not going to be worth whatever benefit there may be of making flat earthers look silly (as if that hasn’t been done enough already).
What would you think of a show with basically the same premise superficially but it also just constantly and blatantly ridicules the flat earthers?
you can only do that so much, it would get stale very quickly.
You just don't see the elephants and the Great A'Tuin under there
It’s kind of A Perfect Awful