Skeptoid #580: Amelia Earhart Redux: Competing Networks, Competing Craziness
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Through their constant promotion of false history, TV networks may have done Amelia Earhart's legacy irreparable harm.
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| 0:00.0 | Long time skeptoid listeners have heard me, multiple times, rail on about the flagrant |
| 0:09.2 | Amelia Earhart misinformation that the TV networks tirelessly promote. |
| 0:14.7 | There never was a mystery, nothing about it was ever unsolved. |
| 0:18.8 | But as soon as you turn on the TV, you hear half a dozen competing, contradictory, false |
| 0:24.4 | histories. |
| 0:25.7 | That isn't about this pioneering aviator that makes her the magnet of so much misinformation. |
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