I just saw their documentary on the “crop circles”! Talk about idiotic…they funded three MIT undergrads to duplicat a cropcirclein Ohio! Not only that , but they dredged up every new age imbecile to mutter on about “energy fields” and “alien intelligences”…talk about stupid!
I wonder how much they spent on this…as far as I know, crop circles are made by alcoholic, retired english farmers with a rope, board, and entirely too much time on their hands!
Can I get a grant to study crop circles? 
Well, unfortunately, they are a lot of “less informed” people out there that want to believe in these type of things. As hard as it is to most to accept, these people are part of the viewing audience that help the Discovery Channel keep their ratings up. So I guess that if they want to stay ahead of their competition, they sometimes have to present things like this to the general public…I myself am sort of fond of the Discovery Channel…but I do understand your point
You obviously haven’t seen the various UFO-Bible Code-Whatever crap documentaries on The History Channel…
Answer: Yes.
No offense, but where have you been?
Discovery Channel’s been doing this kind of thing for a few years now. I quit watching when every time I tuned in there was a 70% chance of seeing a show about aliens, crop-circles, Bigfoot, ghosts, or some other paranormal bullshi–I mean “phenomenon.”
The Learning Channel has become “The Home Decorating Channel.”
The last time I watched Animal Planet, they were featuring “The Pet Psychic.”
I’m a science teacher and I weep for the children who are growing up watching this garbage.
Watch PBS!
LOL. I love their bad science shows. They are more entertaining than the sci-fi channel. Of course, you gotta go into them knowing it is nonsense…
You call THAT scraping the bottom of the barrel? I remember about a year ago the Discovery Channel aired a show called WEIRD ACCIDENTS or something like that. They devoted an entire hour to stories about people getting trapped in outhouses and the like.
I hate the pandering that goes on in all of the Discovery Channel/TLC (same owners). What’s particularly frustrating is when they’ll take a great premise (the story of Abraham, or voodoo) and try to work in UFOs or ghost stories or some other nonsense. The worst part is that they used to be truly educational but now they’re just “history for folks who don’t like history”.
And of course the Travel Channel, which could offer plenty of programs about unusual and interesting places to visit, plays thinly disguised Las Vegas advertisements and hour-long infomercials for various hotels.
No mention of Discovery’s “The Future is Wild” mockumentary? C’mon, what’s not believable about a 4-foot-tall, desert-dwelling, hopping snail? Or a gigantic tortoise that’s “bigger than any land animal that has ever lived,” and somehow doesn’t sink up to it’s neck in the marshy swamp it lives in? Or an elephant-sized terrestrial octopus? Truly an informative program.
I’m sorry I missed that Six Dirx. It sounds like it was a lot of fun. No matter, they recycle everything…
Did the crop circle program feature that imbecile from the UK? Colin someone. He always gets “Crop Circle Expert” on the screen, and he talks in a really tortured grammatical style in an oo-arr accent: “What it is, is; is that very soon we will see the cirrrrcles representing a message from alien life forms”.
He’s an absolute tool, and therefore a joy to watch.
Here he is. Colin Andrews. He’s such a plum.
I would have seconded this, until seeing this recent gem on one of my local stations.
“Just as the Earth’s spin on its axis causes day and night and our planet’s annual orbit around the Sun is responsible for the ongoing cycle of the seasons, what if there is some greater celestial cycle, lasting thousands of years, slowly influencing the rise and fall of civilization across the globe? Where is the evidence? What could be the cause?”
I’m still waiting for the answers.
I think the “experts” that appear on Discover’s pseudo-science shows are about as convincing as the “doctors” that appear on mattress ads and diet plan ads. It really is a black eye for Discover that they show such tripe, it makes me take their legitimate science shows less seriously.
National Geographic Channel has much more limited selection of shows, but at least they don’t show hogwash.
I think that human beings have a strong desire to believe things that all rational thought TELLs us must be wrong!
Take “parapsychology”-over 150 years of research, with NOTHING to show for it…still we see people running the same old card guessing experiments, HOPING that somebody can score above chance
-Ghosts and Hauntings: if nothing has shown up by now, I’d say forget it!
-UFOs, extraterrestrials: see above
Like this “crop circle” nonsense: WHY would any advanced civilzation, able to travel huge distances, amuse themselves by trampling wheatfields down in geometric patterns? The MIT students went so far as to MICROWAVE the trampled wheatstalks(because the imbecilc “expert” TOLD them that the “real” crop circle wheatstalks were cooked by microwaves!
Man, MIT has a BIG problem when they admit idiots like those three! 
Oh, yea, I saw that, it was just bizarre. The chicken-vultures (that acted as evil as the velociraptors from Jurassic Park) hunting monkeys were kind of amusing, though.
But for God’s sake, don’t pledge any money! If they had real cash, they would be just as bad as the rest!
Discovery/TLC were long ago co-opted by the tinfoil hat brigade that sadly makes up the majority of the viewing public. All the “legit” science programming got shifted off to its own home, The Science Channel (which used to be called Discovery Science until someone apparently looked up “ironic juxtaposition” in the dictionary). That’s got some pretty good stuff; you can also find occasionally decent “history of space exploration” type docus on Discovery Wings.
But yeah, the fact that Discovery/TLC started out as ostensible science-and-nature-documentary style channels and then got polluted with psychics and exobiologists in a quest for ratings says something very sad about the mindset of the average viewer.
If we give em cash, they’ll just do more pledge drives!