A lot of this type of content being produced and/or promoted by an internet company based in Boulder, and I can assure you they are all in on the con. Some of them want to focus more on yoga and health food, but the audience numbers have pushed the whole operation towards aliens, crystals, and anti-scientific thinking. I've come to see it as a purposeful attack on humanity's rational faculty.

Gaiam?

IIRC the media arm is a separate company now, but that's an excellent example.

Cosmic charlatans in Boulder aren't all that out of the ordinary. There's a lot of well-off yet surprisingly naive people to pray upon.

http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_29300615/boulder-p...

"If you see the Buddha on the road..." advice I guess never made a great impression.

It's super frustrating. I used to enjoy watching legitimate documentaries - often featuring real-life witnesses of events from WW2, the great depression, various disasters, etc.

I suppose that was many years ago now, but I still miss that. I haven't been able to take history channel seriously in at least a decade. At this point the name is totally misleading and it really frustrates me to see that people take it seriously.

>Initially, Mr. Burns included skeptics on the show. But, he said, “we found that they had nothing to say, other than, ‘There’s no proof, there’s no proof.’ If we were going to do a show about the birth of Jesus, would we have people who say, ‘This is ridiculous?’ No.”