Possibly the dumbest thing I've heard on television

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1

I have no idea what was on. I was watching the DVR, and when my show ended I was treated to this:

“He died of smallpox.”
“I thought smallpox had been eradicated.”
“You can’t believe everything you read on the internet.”

I let it run a little longer, and when whatever show it was (which I didn’t want to know) sounded like it was going in the direction of “he got vaccinated for smallpox, and got the disease from the vaccination,” I put something else on. Anything else. Specifically, Criminal Minds, which was on a channel a few away, and also has pretty stupid science sometimes, but usually more along the applied phlebotinum type.

Serves me right for not being in bed at 1am, I suppose.

2

That’s the stupidest thing you heard on television? I guess you weren’t watching during the 2012 campaign. :wink:

3

I try to avoid that stuff. It might make me to depressed to go to the polls.

4

Or found yourself watching Fox News or stumbled onto a viewer call-in segment on C-SPAN.

5

I won’t watch any television medical, legal, or crime drama. I don’t work in any of those fields and know little about them, but it’s obvious that the writers know even less.

6

Hahaha, bloody hell. That host has obviously transcended into some sort of exalted zen state.

7

Without clicking through, is that the clip from John Oliver’s show?

8

Yes, yes it is.

9

If that’s the stupidest thing you’ve heard on TV then you’re not watching CNN. I know FOX is the easy target, but that stuff is supposed to be fiction.