William Shatner's Weird or What

[CMacDady]

Has anyone watched this show?

I have seen the adverts on TV a few times now and witnessed some of the 'enticing questions' used, and was taken back at some of them.

I have not had time to watch any episodes but does this show take any skeptical approach at all, or is really not critical at all?

For example one question posed to entice viewers was "Can thousands of people really be wrong about contact with other life?"

Paraphrased I think, but the idea is there.

The advert made it sound like witness accounts were credible evidence, apart from the fact that the word evidence was being used left and right.

 

[Drs_Res]

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212004

 

[Brattus]

I would guess that at least 60% of so called reality shows are about ghost hunters, child psychics, space aliens, psychic detectives, bigfoot hunters and has been "celebrity" ghost stories.
With all that there is exactly zero skeptic shows since Bullsh*t stopped.

So what are the odds?

 

[CMacDady]

Thanks Drs Res. I did a search but couldn't find thread.

 

[Baloney]

With all that there is exactly zero skeptic shows since Bullsh*t stopped.

Mythbusters?

 

[Tacita]

They've pretty much stopped with all paranormal myths and focus more on how big of an explosion they can get out of a water heater.

They did pyramid power and such one day and Adam Savage says, on camera, "please don't make me do this again". He is a true skeptic and felt it was all a waste of time.

There's a show called "Fact of Faked" that toes the line between "is it real?" / "no we couldn't find anything but we did a ghost search anyway and it was spooky!" Once they tested a mermaid clip, which I googled and found the answer to while they were still putzing around filming dolphins, trying to "recreate the shot".