# educational tv garbage
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 31, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834 "2009-10-31T11:56:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Shig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shig)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/1 "2009-10-31T11:56:20Z")
Have the History and Discovery channels gotten on anyone else’s last fucking nerve with all these shows on ghosts, psychic phenomena, Nostradamus prophecies, etc, etc?? Ghost Hunters is on SciFi Channel (or Syfy as I guess it’s called now, and that’s where it belongs if it must exist). I won’t ramble here, just looking for other’s thoughts on this.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/2 "2009-10-31T12:10:08Z")
Yes, that complaint comes up here very often, especially in the Cafe Society forum when those channels are mentioned.
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### Author:  [@Shig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shig)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/3 "2009-10-31T12:39:39Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> Yes, that complaint comes up here very often, especially in the Cafe Society forum when those channels are mentioned.
Well shucks. T^hought I was bringing up something new. ☹
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/4 "2009-10-31T15:21:11Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/5 "2009-10-31T18:50:17Z")
The good news is that, AFAIK, the National Geographic Channel is still entirely fact-based, and actually has some shows that debunk ghosts, UFOs, and all that crap.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/6 "2009-10-31T19:08:25Z")
Coming soon ti History Channel: Chupacabra / Nostrodamus cage match.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/7 "2009-10-31T19:12:15Z")
> [@Shig](#):
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> or Syfy as I guess it’s called now
‘Siffy’? Can’t that be treated with penicillin?
‘Go out with her if you want, but she’s a mite siffy.’
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/8 "2009-10-31T19:14:47Z")
TVTropes lists TMC as one of the only channels to mostly avoid “network decay”, which is the term for this.
Hey, even the Weather channel is going to show weather movies.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/9 "2009-10-31T19:22:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> ‘Siffy’? Can’t that be treated with penicillin?
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> ‘Go out with her if you want, but she’s a mite siffy.’
I always thought Siffy was that thing where furries sniff each other’s crotches.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-tv-garbage/515834/10 "2009-10-31T19:40:28Z")
> [@commasense](#):
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> The good news is that, AFAIK, the National Geographic Channel is still entirely fact-based, and actually has some shows that debunk ghosts, UFOs, and all that crap.
Well, actually Ghost Hunters seems more into debunking that finding ghosts …
Although I admit to watching Destination Truth on the railroad wreck theory … take a bunch of people, put them in the ass end of nowhere at night and have them run around with no lights.
Nope, didnt fall off a cliff this week … 😃