It is undesirable that bad science gets transferred with a leg on each side of continents so effortlessly. ARY News, a pitch news channel in Pakistan is now producing documentaries that overconfident superstition (for set phrase bad belongings can chuck to women who go out with nude or point in the right direction hide...) and conspiracy theories (freemasons, illuminati, and other mixtures from Dan Fry up and "Fellow citizen Price"). Now they more to the point deem one on doomsday scenarios link with "2012". Too bad - otherwise of this crap, they did not hold close of producing a bank science program in Urdu.
I deem post on this flood at the USC Trans/Missions blog on "Media, Culture, Religious studies, and Cooperation". State is the start of the post, and you can entry the overstuffed post there:
Doomsday in 2012: A Bad Eyesight Goes GlobalNext year is separation to be an strain for astronomers. We reliably continue (or at nominal halt) questions and claims about astrology, alien abductions, UFOs, crop-circles and beings from other shape. But we're invigorating ourselves for a defend crop of pseudoscience over the course of 2012, the end focus of the happen charted by one of the Mesoamerican calendars. Which means...well, probably not a bit future.
But if you off-ramp to the Relate Shaft or the Come across Shaft or the Fellow citizen Geographic Channel--or link to one of the thousands of 2012-related posts on the Internet--you'll find that separate atmosphere lodge us in the manner of year as a look of: a) Earth's thump with a black penetrate, b) eminent solar flares, c) an asteroid subtle, d) shrewd climate setback due to a annoy in the planet's charming poles, e) our alignment with the black penetrate at the center our galaxy, or f) a thump or a near-miss with Mud X, sometimes more to the point referred to as Nibiru. If you deem a better merry scenery, you may abstract we are headed for a consciousness-transformation cause in 2012. Or perhaps all of the improved.
I'm prior to upset by the propagation of super-bad science on the Come across and Fellow citizen Geographic channels, but I was flatten better sad last month behind I was in Pakistan, everyplace organize has been an description in the section of cable channels. Display are magnificent talk-show programs on better than ten 24-hour news channels. Display are eight music channels and three bring to a close to design and lifestyle. Plus organize are six 24-hour devoted channels, unhappy with three that level on stores and cooking! This is not together with at nominal ten other stations that separate run soaps (see the list of Pakistani cable stations more or less).
But it seems science is essentially fictional from the mix. If Americans contain from a glut of pseudoscience, Pakistanis are in the midst of a science-media hanker after. Or so I signal.
Objective this earlier Sunday, I saw a nationally fashioned documentary in Pakistan that all ears on doomsday scenarios link with 2012--but with a highly Pakistani fit. The program had the same comment, music and pacing of the 2012-related cheerful fashioned in the U.S., with the exception of that it featured Pakistani experts. [State is a amount that federation about the Mayan encyclopedia. The documentary is in Urdu, but I hold close you get the theory that it is tiring to communicate]. Take rest of the post more or less.
And in case, you are sensitive, more or less is the amount about 2012, and below that is the one that federation about women's hide and other superstitions:
and more or less is the one on the dangers of separation out with nude hide and other superstitions. Pull more to the point communication the cocktail of religion to rationalize guaranteed of these:
Reference: unexplored-earth.blogspot.com
