Is It Real?

[Bikewer]

Watched most of a new Discovery entry last night; Is It Real?. Has a fellow apparently investigating primarily internet/YouTube items.
This episode dealt with the "skunk ape" sightings in Florida, and also the "one-wing landing" video that's gotten a lot of airplay.

Not badly done; they did put the skunk-ape video guy on a polygraph (he flunked) and subjected some of the hair supposedly found from the critter to examination (but not DNA tests). Conclusion...Likely fake.

They pretty well tore up the one-wing landing, showing that the film was spliced together with RC aircraft footage, and demonstrating a one-wing landing with an RC aircraft.

Has promise, at any rate.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Isn't the program, "Is it true"?

I thought it was a tad better than the usual fare for this genre like the History Channel's, "Monster Quest". But, only a tad.

 

[GT/CS]

Nope, it's, "Is it Real?".

 

[kitakaze]

Not badly done; they did put the skunk-ape video guy on a polygraph (he flunked)

Dave Shealy, right?

 

[arthwollipot]

If it's the show Is It Real? presented by William B. Davis, then it's hardly new.

Whoops. Mixed it up with Critical Eye. Elementary mistake.

 

[dropzone]

Whoa, how could somebody expect to win a contest with so many scale points lost?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Nope, it's, "Is it Real?".

From my Yahoo TV Guide, Discovery Channel, 10pm PDT yesterday:

"Is It True?"

Are we talking about different shows? The one I watched had 30 min on the skunk ape and 30 minutes on the plane flying sans one wing.

 

[JcR]

Must be talking about this show
Is It True? Skunk Ape and One-Wing Landings



The one winged flying wonder.

 

[rjh01]

If its is it real then it has been around for awhile as a National Geographic show. See the tag I just gave this thread http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/tags.php?tag=is+it+real

Edit. Changed the tag to Is it true. There are currently no other threads with that tag.

 

[kitakaze]

The show is Is It True? Can a mod please fix the thread title and we'll carry on?

Dave Shealy has long been considered a hoaxer. I'm surprised he agreed to take the polygraph. Wait, no I'm not. It's Dave Shealy. He'll take whatever hype he can get.

 

[Bikewer]

I apologize for cleverly inverting the title with that of the National Geographic show. (which is pretty decent)

 

[bryan]

Hello...

The name of the show is "Is It Real?"

I know this because I was on it.

We were on the episode about "Ghosts", this first half of the show featured people chasing "orbs" around haunted locations and psychics "talking" with ghosts, etc..

We were on the second half of the show explaining how "Orbs" are not ghosts, that there has never been a credible image that we could call a ghost and we even went as far as to debunk the infamous Puckett's Junkyard Ghost video.

This is a show that we were proud to be featured on due to the fact that we shared the skeptical side of the show with James Randi.

Even though the show did have a lot of woo, it did offer a good skeptical viewpoint as well.

 

[Drudgewire]

I apologize for cleverly inverting the title with that of the National Geographic show. (which is pretty decent)

Yeah, I was confused since Is It Real? has had Randi on it and does a pretty sound job of debunking (although it spends the first forty minutes teasing before dropping the hammer).

 

[ugot2bekidding]

Nope, it's, "Is it Real?".

For me, it shows up as Is It True on the cable guide the day it's on, but it's listed as Is It Real if I do a search on a day it's not on. Damn Comcast....

edit: Oh, so there are two different shows? I guess Comcast has them confused.

 

[Bikewer]

The one is a fairly long-standing National Geographic series. The other is a brand-new Discovery offering; so much so that they don't even have it featured on the official website yet.

 

[JcR]

National Geographic's "Is it Real?"



ETA, here is a RC plane that loses it's wing in flight, continues to fly, then lands.

 

[bryan]

OK.... Lets see the Skeptical side of that show

That was the Woo side of the show.

Here is the better part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdRrrw_I-I&feature=channel_page

Thanks,
Bryan

 

[Drudgewire]

That was the Woo side of the show.

Here is the better part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdRrrw_I-I&feature=channel_page

Thanks,
Bryan

That's the best example of why I love the show. It's the first episode I watched, and was sitting there stunned at how much legitimacy they seemed to be giving Ghost Hunters and photographs/security cam footage/orbs/etc.

Then at the end they deliver the smackdown.

 

[JcR]

That was the Woo side of the show.

Here is the better part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdRrrw_I-I&feature=channel_page

Thanks,
Bryan

Actually I posted Part 1 out of 5 of National Geographic's "Is it Real?" to give an example why it isn't The same show as the Discovery Channel's "Is it True?"
Here is another example, "Is it real"

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Hello...

The name of the show is "Is It Real?"

I know this because I was on it. ...

That's fascinating.

But it's clear now there are 2 different shows. I was about to post the TV guide evidence and declare absolute knowledge. At the last minute I softened my declaration with a more reasonable, "are we talking about the same show?" Now I'm glad I did.