How "Shark Week" distorts reality

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The popular Discovery Channel programs and their imitators may do a disservice to conservation, John R. Platt writes for Scientific American: "Undoubtedly these programs will attract their usual massive ratings, but they may be guilty of the same kinds of film fakery that plagues many wildlife films, where the images on your screen don’t tell a full or even truthful story." More from David Shiffman and Brian Switek.

August 20, 2013

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