Posted on 04/30/2013 at 06:55 PM
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Hey Wayde
! I'll give you the short version of my issues with Bones: piss-poor science. Several months ago, I watched an episode where Hodgins comes back to the group with "the win scales come from a rare beetle called the emerald ash borer that is only found in the blah-blah highlands of blah." The emerald ash borer is not in the least rare, we should only wish it were. It's an invasive beetle from Asia that is munching its way through the east, destroying ash trees as it goes. I fumed and sputtered, and Jason pointed out that not everyone knows about that particular bug. But it still bothered me, I mean, with the internet so readily available, it wouldn't have been particularly difficult to check. Then, about a month or so ago, there was an episode where Hodgins identified a substance as bird poop from a peregrine falcon. Now, I have doubts as to whether it's actually possible to figure that out from some bird poop, but I don't know enough about the subject. What I flipped out about was when they went to a crime scene location at night and the falcons were on the ground guarding a rotten foot. Peregrines don't roost on the ground. Peregrines don't eat carrion. Peregrines are not at all active at night. Just about any birder can tell you those three things, and it took me 30 seconds on the computer to double check my facts, and all I did was put "do peregrine falcons eat carrion?" into the search box. Nothing fancy, no secret decoder ring needed. Now you have my rant, lol. I find it ironic that they do such a bad job with their scientific fact checking on a show where the main characters are all so devoted to science.
Glad you liked Meteora. I wish I could find a video of them doing that eastern European hymn a capella in three part harmony. That was transcendently beautiful.