Viewers against scientific errors

[Jack Crenshaw]

Apologies in advance if this post is seen as OT.

I'm mad and I'm not going to take it anymore. I'm launching a campaign
against science programs -- seen mostly on Discovery, Science, and
History channels -- with egregious technical errors. Since I'm just
started documenting them, I can't reference specific shows and channels,
but here are a few I've come across lately.

o Discovery Channel, "Cosmic Collisions". Narrator says
"No dinosaur bones exist _BELOW_ the K-T boundary" (should be
above").

o "Beyond the Big Bang" (I forget the channel). In discussion of
Einstein's prediction of light bending around the sun, the curve is
shown as a zig-zaq path -- right, left, right. In fact, it's a
hyperbola. I've seen this one a _LOT_!

o More egregious, and amanzing: On a Science Channel program
discussing search for extraterrestrial planets, a graphic shows
a planet and star "orbiting" each other. But they are not orbiting
a common center of mass. They are both on the SAME SIDE of some
imaginary fixed center. To illustrate the effect, the program
shows two kids on in-line skates, holding hands as they spin in
a circle. This is an easy move, for skaters. Ice skaters do
it all the time, and it's pretty effortless. But in the show,
some producder apparently saw the graphic first, and wanted the
kids to emulate it. So you see the "planet" kid orbiting relatively
effortlessly, on his outer orbit, while the poor "sun" kid is
peddling like mad, trying to stay on the same side of the common
center

o Most egregious of all: An educational program (Mumble Classroom?)
devoted to Newton's laws. Video shows a space shuttle being
launched. Narrator says, "The rocket shows an example of Newton's
third law. The rocket exhaust pushes down on the earth. The earth
pushes back on the shuttle."

I have two questions:

1) Don't these shows and networks have a technical advisor who can keep
them from making such ridiculous errors? If not, why not?

2) Would anyone else like to contribute errors they've seen? We have to
keep these idiots honest. Their shows get viewed in school classrooms,
where they tend to get accepted as gospel.

Jack