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Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male 'experts' named Mike
The Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week is the longest-running cable television series in history, filling screens with sharky content every summer since 1988. It causes one of the largest temporary increases in U.S. viewers’ attention to any science or conservation topic.
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I never watched Shark Week even when I had cable tv.I don't care about seeing programs about sharks,sharks,and more sharks...No junk science either. But yeah,Discovery was scraping the bottom of the barrel when we cut the chord and that was ages ago.