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Re:Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010) by infra178 on Sunday August 17, 2014 @03:31PM (#8190191)
"MythBusters" is an unscientific television show run by stunt men. Imagine someone holding a candle underneath a gas tank for five seconds, not exploding, and concluding with cheesy sound effects that the flammability of gasoline is a "Myth". That's "MythBusters".
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Re:Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010) by Karunamon on Sunday August 17, 2014 @04:13PM (#8190304)
XKCD responds to this better than I can: http://xkcd.com/397/

That aside, I've yet to see a conclusion on that show that wasn't reasonable.

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Re:Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010) by dllthomas on Sunday August 17, 2014 @06:21PM (#8190663)
"That aside, I've yet to see a conclusion on that show that wasn't reasonable."

Whenever the myth is about a secret project to such-and-such, they regularly use "we couldn't figure out how to do it" to conclude "it can't be done"; that isn't reasonable.

I'm generally a fan of the show, mind you.

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Re:Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010) by DanBC on Sunday August 17, 2014 @04:45PM (#8190407)
It's kind of disturbing that the mythbusters link posted is better quality nutrition science than a lot of the nutrition that gets upvotes on HN.
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