Oh yeah. Even if you aren't confronted by a mythical creature or an extinct giant you can always use these things for other purposes like fishing, tearing down walls, removing unsightly bodily growths and settling sibling disputes.
Extreme is producing an environment wherein superbugs can form because there isn't sufficient competition over the environment and because they have formed a resistance to the chemical agent (i.e. MRSA and triclosan). The FDA reports: "studies in bacteria have raised the possibility that triclosan contributes to making bacteria resistant to antibiotics."
Being too clean can pose serious health risks otherwise when our immune systems are not kept up-to-date by routinely fighting off infection.
Nice, this comes up at the same time a Que. woman's cat ripped her face open and attacked her children because he purportedly suffered from "feline schizophrenia". She had to have reconstructive facial surgery and is not advocating declawing cats. Oh, how the world turns!
The worst thing about this show is probably the way they purport to be doing "science" and using the "scientific method" and the fact that masses of fashionable "rationalists" actually believe this to be true.
For people who can be seen endlessly supporting "science" and proclaiming its superiority the actual methods used in the show are more like "Trial and Error". The same kind of techniques a "special effects" expert might use. There is no "double blind" or satisfactory "control" in most of their experiments. But people believe this to be "science". Shooting a ball out of a cannon does not equate to an experiment rigidly holding to scientific methodology. It's just a bunch of people who like explosions blowing stuff up to see what happens.
Take a look at CERN or Fermilab. Could these particle colliders be operated in the same half-ass way? What happens if they start leaking gamma rays and other radioisotopes into the surrounding area? Even with crunching all the numbers and decades of planning there are occasional mishaps and meltdowns. Chernobyl. Fukushima. This stuff happens for the same reason, poor planning, lack of oversight and cutting corners.
BTW I've seen every episode of Mythbusters on Netflix. I enjoy their show, I'm just not one of these people who shows absolute approval or disapproval of anyone or their actions. Mythbusters would be a much better show if they spent more time designing their experiments than designing the scene-changes and coming up with half-witty dialogs between the mythbusters. Their acting is horrendous anyway. Spend less time with bad puns and more time running extra trials to smooth out the results.
In their experiment where they wanted to see if slapping someone would "wake them up" and make them more capable cognitively, there never was any "blind" or similar controls. "Experimenter Expectancy Effect" is a HUGE problem for science. This is made infinitely more important when the experiment depends on "self-reports" as that experiment did. It doesn't matter that they all did (3 trials), they all knew what the experiment was about and even described their "expectancy" prior to the experiment. Then their self-reports were entirely consistent with their expectancy. No surprise considering Rosenthal identified this failure in experimentation decades ago.
This can be seen in their gross indulgence in "explosions" as Adam likes to say "Let's blow something up" with a big giddy smile and his fists raised and clenched beside his ears. This outward expression of emotion is indicative of a state of mind that is not cautious or thoughtful, but teeming to destruction.
Viewers like it because violence and destruction (next to sex) is the content viewers most like to consume. This video would have twice as many views if someone had died.
@Jolly No, I am not more likely to do that. I drive cautiously and have never caused any accidents. I have been the victim of multiple accidents but I have never caused one.
What makes most people dangerous behind the wheel is that they like to forget they are doing something potentially dangerous and instead focus on their pride and sense of power over the vehicle.
Likewise Mythbusters do not treat these things cautiously enough and they are not quite as thoughtful and rigorous as they would need to be if they were actually scientists.
Being too clean can pose serious health risks otherwise when our immune systems are not kept up-to-date by routinely fighting off infection.
For people who can be seen endlessly supporting "science" and proclaiming its superiority the actual methods used in the show are more like "Trial and Error". The same kind of techniques a "special effects" expert might use. There is no "double blind" or satisfactory "control" in most of their experiments. But people believe this to be "science". Shooting a ball out of a cannon does not equate to an experiment rigidly holding to scientific methodology. It's just a bunch of people who like explosions blowing stuff up to see what happens.
Take a look at CERN or Fermilab. Could these particle colliders be operated in the same half-ass way? What happens if they start leaking gamma rays and other radioisotopes into the surrounding area? Even with crunching all the numbers and decades of planning there are occasional mishaps and meltdowns. Chernobyl. Fukushima. This stuff happens for the same reason, poor planning, lack of oversight and cutting corners.
In their experiment where they wanted to see if slapping someone would "wake them up" and make them more capable cognitively, there never was any "blind" or similar controls. "Experimenter Expectancy Effect" is a HUGE problem for science. This is made infinitely more important when the experiment depends on "self-reports" as that experiment did. It doesn't matter that they all did (3 trials), they all knew what the experiment was about and even described their "expectancy" prior to the experiment. Then their self-reports were entirely consistent with their expectancy. No surprise considering Rosenthal identified this failure in experimentation decades ago.
Viewers like it because violence and destruction (next to sex) is the content viewers most like to consume. This video would have twice as many views if someone had died.
What makes most people dangerous behind the wheel is that they like to forget they are doing something potentially dangerous and instead focus on their pride and sense of power over the vehicle.
Likewise Mythbusters do not treat these things cautiously enough and they are not quite as thoughtful and rigorous as they would need to be if they were actually scientists.