Talk:Brainiac: Science Abuse

message: Were these half-hour episode or hour episode that are being cut in half for Americna television? And how many of them are there? Sweetfreek 06:31, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can tell you that in the UK, that they are a hour long including the commercials. And I cannot think of how many there is. --eddie 20:44, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode Length

message: In case any of you were wondering like I was, Peter Logan's Exploding Paste is NI3.  Al-Kadafi 05:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NI3

message: I was just wondering if anyone who is a large fan of Brainiac: Science Abuse could write an episode list. I would but I only watch it occasionaly. --DChiuch 08:04, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Requests]] 

message: It has already been hinted in the current article, but I think it would be appropriate to point out how unreliable the results of the experiments carried out in the shows are. The show is, of course, mainly meant for for entertainment, but unreliable results may give the viewer false ideas. Hauberg 18:53, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Validity and Reliability 

message: This show completely rips off, or should I say attempts to rip off Mythbusters. However, being complete retards with no knowledge of anything, brainiac had to add semi naked woman to make their show seem cooler. I hope you all die of bird flu
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Congratulations for completely missing the point. I've now removed your blatant trolling from the Brainiac page.
Sigh this show does not rip off mythbusters, it hardly EVER puts myths to the test, in fact I'd say this show is more like Bill Nye than Mythbusters. How would I know, I see both shows. This show is more about experiments, in fact in one episode they tested to see which type of packaging material is the most effective, they did this by chucking TVs out of a van going 65 mph (each one coated with a different protective packaging). I should also remind you about their attempts to destroy a black box flight recorder and of course electrocution now does that sound like mythbusters?
Has anyone else noticed that the show's experiments lack any scientific analysis?  The Brainiac team tends to use random guesses and sporadic pieces of inconsistent data to prove uncertain points.  Or is that the humor behind the show?
* I question the inclustion of a link to the Mythbusters article due to the above valid reasons. It's just another TV show that performs experiments and has no relationship to Brainiac. The only reason I can imagine for the cross-reference is due to the oft-heard "Mythbusters Rip Off" argument. As this argument is debunked above, I think the cross reference should be removed --RickMeasham 07:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mythbusters 

message: Without going into too much detail (because it's fairly clear from the article), the content appears to reflect a negattive bias againts the show. Whilst it's fairly conclusively been established that much of the "science" is either faked or embellished, it should be presented in suh a way that reflects exactly that - that it's not actually been proven. This comment was added 15 July 2006 by User:81.170.50.65
I think most people realise that Brainiac is an entertainment show first, and a science show second. For good or for bad, that's why it is a ratings success. So any alleged "embellishments" are not so bad as they might be on a serious science show. There are some proper scientific segments, but I suspect there are a lot of viewers who just want to see a caravan explode.
I think it's similar "controversy" as to Have I Got News For You being scripted. 
--Ritchie333 10:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious bias 

message: This section is getting huge and is basically a list. Would it be sensible to split it into its own article List of Tickle's Teasers from Brainiac since it's not adding much to the article? Pseudomonas 01:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tickle's Teasers section 

message: I thought the fourth season was still airing, and if it is shouldn't that be notified? Wikisquared 19:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fourth season

message: Could someone please sort out the copyright info on this image? It clearly isn't public domain. Mahahahaneapneap 17:42, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image:BrainiacLogo.jpg

message: It says Hammond was injured during an attempt at the land speed.. this is not confirmed and not that relevant. It should be removed (RuSTy1989 22:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hammond Land Speed

message: If you look here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,,1826518,00.html
you'll see that they have admitted to faking some of their experiments without informing their viewers of this. I think, maybe it should be in the article?
: I fully agree that this should be added to the article. Additional references are here: http://www.badscience.net/?p=270 . Seriously the explosions in this experiment: ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=m55kgyApYrY ) was done purely through dynamite, and not through the chemicals they put in the bath. You can even see the detonating wire going into the bath in some of the shots.
:: http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/AlkaliBangs/ -Explains what really happens in those experiments and links to 3 Guardian articles on the state of Brainiac: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,,1821144,00.html , http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,,1826518,00.html , http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,,1832906,00.html
*Brown note article also says that their experiment was clearly faked. Mieciu K 21:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faking Experiments 

message: This show has very little scientific base , i think the articial should say  pesudo-scientific (Gnevin 21:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  scientific  

message: Currently that's a huge list, I suggest trimming it down to about ten examples. I don't watch the show regularly, so I wouldn't know which ones best exemplify the show. 84.71.13.145 17:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Experiments - trim down list 

message: Since the show is created in the UK, would it not be best to put the page in the British spellings? It seems strange seeing "the nation's favorite granny", when really, it's the UK's (being the nation) favourite granny 82.19.143.23 22:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  en-US/en-GB 

message: With the many musical hits played in the show, I propose an article be created with a list of songs played on the show and which episode they are in. --Ted-m 22:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music featured in the show 

message: ATHENS 8/6/07 
Dear brainiac
 I am watching your TV programme from greek TV (ΣΚΑΙ) and I have not lost it zny time .
 The cause I sent this letter is because I want to learn how much sound waves come in to our ear per second.
Yours faith fully Diitris Sapikas
P.S. excuse me if I have write any word with wrong way because I do not know very good the English language
:Hello. This is not the best place to ask this, but I'll do my best to help. You'll want to look at the article hertz. a single Hz is 1 per minute. the average human can hear sounds between 10 Hz and 20,000 Hz. So, to answer your question, when listening to music, anywhere from 7000 to 15000 sound waves per minute. 24.205.34.217 00:24, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SAPIKAS DIMITRIS 

message: Every other TV show on wikipedia has a full episode list, and brainiac's entry is sorely missing it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.107.200.200 (talk) 08:00, July 13, 2007 (UTC)
:Agreed.  That's what I came here looking for. -- HiEv 11:23, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No list of episodes!!! 

message: This is a dead link. Please fix.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.71.65 (talk) 22:59, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference #9 

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