If you watched the documentary on the Discovery Channel titled: Megalodon you may have noticed some too good to be true pics and some questionable marine biologists statements. You are not alone. George Monbiot has noticed these oddly unquestioned claims and has taken a closer look.
http://www.theguardian.com/environme...george-monbiot
Did Discovery Channel fake the image in its giant shark documentary?
Image showing Megalodon swimming past U-boats off Cape Town was doctored. Come clean, or prove me wrong
Image purporting to show a giant shark swimming past German submarines. Photograph: Sharkzilla/Discovery Channel
"The suspicion that the Discovery Channel had abandoned its professed editorial standards was a powerful one. As I mentioned in my earlier blog, its documentary claiming that the giant shark Carchardon megalodon still exists contained images which gave a strong impression of being faked; reports of incidents which don't appear to have happened; and interviews with "marine biologists" no one has been able to trace.
But allegations of fakery are very hard to prove. As you know, absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence. Just because no one has been able to find the news reports the Megalodon show claims to have found, or any record of the deaths of four people in an attack by a giant shark off South Africa last year, or any trace of the suspiciously handsome experts it used to confirm its thesis doesn't prove definitively that all of them are inventions, even though it's hard to see how they could not be."
(read the rest at the link above)
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Originally Posted by Doc
