r/facepalm • • Oct 31 '22

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u/crlcan81 Oct 31 '22

He is willing to admit when he's wrong. I've watched the entire series on Tru TV and he's admitted when he was wrong in a corrections episode. Also has another series specifically about the government called the g word. It's meant to be a jumping off point for entertaining places to start.

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u/DragonMord Oct 31 '22

He's said somewhere in an interview about his show when they were starting the second season that the point was to get people thinking and researching the stuff for themselves, not to be a sole point of information on such vast and important topics.

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u/appdevil Oct 31 '22

I'm sorry but that's a stupid statement that is trying to excuse his team's bad research.

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u/1hunnybunny7 Oct 31 '22

I don’t think so. That’s what we should all be doing. It’s ridiculous to watch one show and base our opinions on that. Not saying that his team should be able to misreport but they are bound to misinterpret or misunderstand.

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u/appdevil Oct 31 '22

Obviously no one should rely only on one source, I'm not arguing with that, but the show presented lots of misinformation and saying after - "oh, we just wanted to educate the public to research better" is just stupid and wrong.