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Science Bloopers
Posted 9/24/2009:
Aliens, Humans and Crossbreeds, Oh my!
The link below contains a youtube video clip of Star Trek's Dr. McCoy and Spock in a fight where Dr. McCoy insults Spock calling him names such a...
Posted 4/27/2009:
No Sound From the Death Star
Sound waves can't propagate in space, so the missiles would not make noise as they flew, nor would the ship exploding. http://www.youtube.com/wat...
Posted 4/24/2009:
Even space needs a reference point
This McDonald's cup advertises you can jump 6 times higher in space! However, space is a pretty large place and gravity is in respect to a certa...
Posted 4/24/2009:
Dinosaurs and Mammals?
What is wrong with this picture? Among other things: the dinosaurs and mammals depicted in the movie did not cohabited the Earth at the ...
Posted 4/24/2009:
Misused Statistics
In this advertisement, statistics and the graph set up skew the results. By making the axis only go to 10%, the results seem m...
Posted 4/24/2009:
Nemo's father should be his mother
In Finding Nemo, the two Clownfish are male the whole time. Clownfish are a protoandrous species, where they're born male and, if there's no fem...
Posted 4/24/2009:
Stamp Error
Stamp Error!
A commemorative stamp was released in the US last year to celebrate the life of Gery Cori, a Biochemist who worked on glycogen met...
Posted 4/24/2009:
Basic Engineering Boo-boo
An odd number of gears in a circle simply cannot turn. However, the British government still approved the coin. ...
Posted 4/24/2009:
Doctors Approve!
"Doctors Approve!"This advertisement misuses survey results administered by Camel across the country where "doctors were given packs of cigarettes a...
Posted 4/23/2009:
It's great to be a Florida Croc!
The cover of the 2003 Gator football media guide showed a photo of a crocodile by accident. It even inspired some t-shirts to be made that said "Go Fl...
Posted 4/23/2009:
Energized water? I think not.
http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2006/12/29/popular-science-has-a-ways-to-go/This add claims some ridiculous stuff. First it claims that the water filter ...
Posted 4/23/2009:
The Case of the Mistaken Tissue
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Posted 4/23/2009:
East is West?
This 1969 movie is wrongly entitled "Krakatoa: East of Java.“ Krakatoa is in fact WEST of Java (see map) not East as the title declares. Howe...
Posted 4/22/2009:
DNA helix?
This is the cover of a creationist textbook that is aimed at disproving Darwin's theory of evolution. I think the cover is a good metaphor for t...
Posted 4/22/2009:
A "new" Physics
In this book cover Newton's law of conservation of Force is incorrectly portrayed because the two objects (of whatever masses,) will actually effect e...
Posted 4/22/2009:
doing a 360 degree turn
http://www.doinga360.comThe author of this website talks about doing a 360 degree turn and changing his/her life completely. If you make a 360 degrees...
Posted 4/22/2009:
Reporting from the wrong angle
This is a report on a study that found a higher rate of birth defects in children whose fathers underwent vasectomy reversal surgery. The visual prese...
Posted 4/22/2009:
Blinking, so easy a gecko could do it.
In the commercial, the Geico Gecko has eyelids and blinks. In reality, most geckos do not have eyelids or blink and instead clean their eyes with thei...
Posted 4/22/2009:
(Not) working together
For systems of gears to work properly they must function in pairs. Apparently a set of three gears is visually appealing and is often used in adv...
Posted 4/21/2009:
Gun Fight Drama
In many movies, such as The Ok Corral, gun fights are exagerated, with people flying through the air. In reality, the momentum of the bullet would not...
Posted 4/21/2009:
Protopic Ointment
In tiny words at the bottom of this website there is a warning that Protopic may cause "rare cases of malignancy" when in fact use of Protopic has bee...
Posted 11/19/2008:
Uninformative Graph Used in Advertising
X-axis is undefined, making graph impossible to interpret. Data were provided as part of a marketing campaign.
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Posted 11/19/2008:
Amino Proteins?
This Pantene bottle advertises that it contains “amino proteins”. But are these beneficial? Does the label mean anything? ...
Posted 11/19/2008:
Physics, What Physics?
Total lack of regard for physical laws, but this is Wiley Coyote, so he can get away with it.
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Posted 11/19/2008:
Exaggerated Claims
These sites mistakenly portray Gardasil as the "cervical cancer vaccine" in their titles when in reality it is a vaccine that protects against certain...
Posted 11/19/2008:
Go West
Article from PRACTICAL TRAVELER | ROUND-THE-WORLD TRIPS; Traveling the Globe on a Single Ticket
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Published: December 30, 2007...
Posted 10/15/2008:
The Wrong Tool for the Job
TV show scientist examines his date's DNA under a light microscope. DNA is too small to be seen with a microscope like this, and even if you co...
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