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If we're reviving everything then start with Mythbusters (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kari is a big oil sell-out,

I watched the video and a behind the scenes how an off shore rig works isn't much of a sell out. Showing the behind the scenes complexity of drilling makes solar even more appealing.

Mythbusters regularly featured weapons but they weren't shilling for the US Military Industrial Complex.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

The U-2 Bomber episode was a little shilling, there wasn't even a myth. But what were they gonna do, not take a cool ass ride to the edge of space?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, but getting a respected "science person" to go on camera and repeat their clean-sounding PR "Deepwater Energy" name is just one of the ways that Big Oil legitimizes their actions to the public, and I'd have hoped someone who spent a decade plus in both the entertainment and soft-science industries could've seen through it. It would be like if Bill Nye or Neil DeGrasse Tyson made a multi-part webseries about Clean Coal.

Regardless, it wasn't the first time the MB cast was tricked into shilling for fossil fuels, but an episode about clean-burning diesel in 2009 is a lot less aggregious than an episode about underwater oil drilling in 2023, in my opinion.

Mythbusters regularly featured weapons but they weren't shilling for the US Military Industrial Complex.

Not the MIC, but I have no doubt that the NRA or other gun lobbyists helped produce those episodes.