Hacker News Reader

"MythBusters" is an unscientific television show run by stunt men. Imagine someone holding a candle underneath a gas tank for five seconds, not exploding, and concluding with cheesy sound effects that the flammability of gasoline is a "Myth". That's "MythBusters".

View on HN

XKCD responds to this better than I can: http://xkcd.com/397/

That aside, I've yet to see a conclusion on that show that wasn't reasonable.

"That aside, I've yet to see a conclusion on that show that wasn't reasonable."

Whenever the myth is about a secret project to such-and-such, they regularly use "we couldn't figure out how to do it" to conclude "it can't be done"; that isn't reasonable.

I'm generally a fan of the show, mind you.

It's kind of disturbing that the mythbusters link posted is better quality nutrition science than a lot of the nutrition that gets upvotes on HN.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com