<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/US-Army-Base-Camp-Arifjan-Kuwait/246705525356297">US Army Cpl. Trisha Betz</a></span></p><p class="caption">US soldiers march on base in Kuwait.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Not everything in the military is all action. And not all action in the military is actually as it is portrayed in Hollywood at all. </p><p>Responding to a recent Reddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/">question</a> "what things do movies get hilariously wrong about the military," hundreds of military service members from a number of countries chime in on how their military experience was nothing at all like what is displayed on the silver screen. </p><p>The answers range from the technical, such as how uniforms are often incredibly wrong, to the critical, such as how an artillery strike extremely close to a soldier's position will likely result in death or injury. We've collected some of the most eye opening answers about what the military is actually like below. </p><p>Reddit member endlessbloodorgy <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d11yzog">shared</a>: "<span>Not enough cussing. Not even close." </span></p><p><span>And Newguy6962579 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d11xqjr">chimed</a> in that what bothered him most was: </span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">When no one knows their job and the lead folks are always micromanaging. You don't have to tell marines to shoot at the bad guys.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Also, "That's an order!"</p><p>Pyronaut44 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d12240g">noted</a> that the ages in the movies never seem true to life:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>Ages always seem well off, movies and TV shows seem to have Private soldiers averaging in their 30's whereas reality is more 19/20 years old. A realistic depiction of your typical infantry platoon would have audiences wondering why all these kids are running about playing soldiers.</span></p><p><span>Commenter rick7475 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d121au0">noted</a>: </span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">What I hate the most is how easy it is to kill or take out trained soldiers or mercenaries who were probably veterans. Some spy or hero sneaks on base, a few kicks and hits, and the guards with automatic weapons are down for the count. Also, one shot takes out a soldier when the hero gets wounded a dozen times and still has strength to defuse the fakest looking bomb ever or save the cute honey trapped in a high security cell.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">When its a military picture or TV show, they always focus on the officers as heroes, never the squad members or NCO's that most officers give credit for getting the job done.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Or even the tactics, and I'm looking at you "Saving Private Ryan", sending man after man to take out a pill box and only after a dozen are dead deciding on using a sniper.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/6441837115/">Flickr/Official US Navy Imagery</a></span></p><p class="caption">US sailors wave goodbye as they leave port.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>For user bleachmike51, his complaints were much more <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d121a8e">technical</a>:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>Popped collar on ACU's, no patches, soldiers running into combat with patrol caps and berets.... list goes on. Try watching the military in the flash and not cringing.</span></p><p><span>Reddit member tcain5188 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d11zsuh">noted</a> that for many in the military, the jobs are not at all close to combat: "n<span>ot enough people at desks pretending to work."</span></span></p><p><span><span>And Tyrantt_47 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d123sy3">echoed</a> that unlike in the movies, few people in the military are in peak physical shape: <span> "hardly anyone I knew in the military was ripped"</span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>Commentor p00d73 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d123fuc">shared</a> a hard truth about combat in the military: </span></span></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span><span><span><span>Artillery impacts. When the heroes get shelled, they just seem to brush off the dirt from the massive explosion 5m next to them and continue fighting. In movies an artillery barrage always seems like a minor annoyance instead of a slaughterfest.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span>User tacsquid <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d11ym8m">wrote</a>: </span></span></span></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Everyone is always an officer and uses military radio jargon in real life conversations. People don't even say that sh-- over the radio ffs. Also in movies EVERYTHING is bullet proof when in real life very few things are. Everything is always super clean and neat. Girls have nice hair and makeup. No one has salty crust on their uniform from not being able to wash clothes. Officers also always give out orders and sh-- like everyone else is a robot. on a patrol a good officer shouldn't be doing sh-- except talking on the radio to the TOC for CAS. Everyone should already know what to do and the NCOs can handle the rest.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">edit</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">also suppressors!</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Sgt. Jamean Berry/US Marine Corps</span></p><p class="caption">A Marine engages targets from a UH-1Y Venom with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, during Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) above San Clemente Island, California, March 20, 2015. COMPTUEX gives the Marines of VMM-161 the opportunity to practice real-world scenarios and hone their skill sets. </p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>And in reply to tacsquid, SavageHenry0311 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d1299xthttps://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/4anuhy/what_things_do_movies_get_hilariously_wrong_about/d1299xt">shared</a> his own personal experience:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Speaking of suppressors -</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Nobody seems to understand how f------ LOUD sh-- is.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">I was in a gunfight in a stairwell once, and my left ear is <em>still</em> ringing 10 years later.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">In the movies, they do a few mag dumps in an elevator/car/parking garage....and then whisper back and forth 3 minutes later.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">What?</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-seal-explains-why-he-wont-skydive-as-civilian-brandon-webb-2016-2">A Navy SEAL explains why he'll never go skydiving as a civilian again</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="RsNjczMTE6RHlzea-rwjd_AZCZiuvDb8" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Military service members share what movies get wrong about the armed services

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul><li><strong>Sam Altman, one of the most powerful people in the startup world, says that the debate around political correctness in San Francisco is bad for startups and smart people.</strong></li><li><strong>His blog post on the topic drew heated reactions from both people who agreed with him as well as people who believe his ideas are dangerous.&#xa0;</strong></li></ul><p><br>If Y Combinator president Sam Altman wanted to start a furious debate with his latest blog post, he certainly succeeded.&#xa0;</br></p><p><a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove">In a post on his blog</a>, he argued that the climate of political correctness in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is "very bad for startups," and that it was easier to express controversial ideas in China than it is in California.</p><p>The essay, named "<a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove">E Pur Si Muove</a>" after a quip heretic scientist&#xa0;Galileo Galilei said on his deathbed, drew swift and strong reactions from both supporters and detractors.&#xa0;</p><p>Here's his basic point:&#xa0;</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Restricting speech leads to restricting ideas and therefore restricted innovation-the most successful societies have generally been the most open ones. Usually mainstream ideas are right and heterodox ideas are wrong, but the true and unpopular ideas are what drive the world forward. Also, smart people tend to have an allergic reaction to the restriction of ideas, and I'm now seeing many of the smartest people I know move elsewhere."</p><p>He cites specific ideas that the San Francisco intellectual climate have ejected, including "ideas like pharmaceuticals for intelligence augmentation, genetic engineering, and radical life extension."</p><p>In Altman's view, people who have criticized those ideas for businesses have essentially cast the entrepreneurs behind them as "heretics," the same way the Catholic Church jailed Galileo for correctly claiming that the earth revolves around the sun.&#xa0;</p><p>"This is uncomfortable, but it's possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics," Altman wrote. "Of course we can and should say that ideas are mistaken, but we can't just call the person a heretic."</p><p>Altman runs the most prestigious tech startup accelerator in Silicon Valley, Y Combinator, but in recent years he has expressed <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-mission-fix-american-democracy-2017-6">increased interest in political ideas</a>. One of his experiments is related to the aspiration to give every single person a free basic income. Altman is currently running a program that gives 100 people in Oakland, California between $1,000 and $2,000 per month, and last year, he had to shoot down rumors that he was going to run for governor of California.</p><h2><span style="color: #000000;">The reaction&#xa0;</span></h2><p>Users can't post comments on Altman's blog, but many people who read his thoughts on political correctness were eager to respond.</p><p>Altman had defenders from the venture capital and entrepreneurship worlds, but he also drew scores of critics from technology writers, activists, business school professors, and even rank-and-file employees at big tech companies.&#xa0;</p><p>It got heated.&#xa0;&#xa0;</p><p>Altman did have defenders, who said that they felt constrained to pursue or express controversial ideas, and cited the backlash to Altman's post as proof of his point. On Hacker News, Y Combinator's message board, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924093">the post drew 690 comments</a>, many of them supportive of his arguement.&#xa0;</p><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-x-versus-google-pixel-2-2017-11">A guy who reviews gadgets for a living spent a week with the iPhone X and the Pixel 2 - the winner was clear</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div></hr>

People in Silicon Valley are losing their minds after a famous investor said its culture is bad for startups

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore">Julie Ann Horvath / Twitter</a></span></p><p class="caption">Former GitHub employee Julie Anne Horvath</p></div><p></p></div>In a blog post today, <a href="https://github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-results">GitHub's CEO Chris Wanstrath apologized</a> for not being transparent about an internal investigation into allegations that former employee Julie Anne Horvath was sexually harassed.</p>
<p>GitHub's former CEO and co-founder Tom Preston-Werner <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-preston-werner-resigns-from-github-after-harassment-accusations-2014-4">resigned following the allegations</a>. Wanstrath <a href="https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investigation">wrote on the company's blog</a> at the time that an investigation into the incident was being conducted.</p>
<p>"The investigation found no evidence to support the claims against Tom and his wife of sexual or gender-based harassment or retaliation, or of a sexist or hostile work environment," Wanstrath wrote. "However, while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment. In light of these findings, Tom has submitted his resignation, which the company has accepted."</p>
<p>In today's blog post, Wanstrath said that the company paid for a third-party investigator named Rhoma Young, who conduced more than 50 interviews over a four-week period, including an interview with Horvath. According to Wanstrath, here's what the investigator found:</p>
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<p><strong>Founder allegations.</strong> The investigation found Tom Preston-Werner in his capacity as GitHub's CEO acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivity to the impact of his spouse's presence in the workplace, and failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office. There were also issues surrounding the solicitation of GitHub employees for non-GitHub business and the inappropriate handling of employee concerns regarding those solicitations.</p>
<p>After being presented with the results we felt Tom could no longer be an effective leader at GitHub. He offered his resignation and we accepted.</p>
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<p><strong>Engineer allegations.</strong> The investigation found no information to support misconduct or opportunistic behavior by the engineer against Julie or any other female employees in the workplace. Furthermore, there was no information found to support Julie's allegation that the engineer maliciously deleted her code. The commit history, push log, and all issues and pull requests involving Julie and the accused engineer were reviewed. The investigation considered all possible commits surrounding the accusation of passive-aggressive code removal. One instance was found where the engineer updated and broke some CSS in an internal application, which was fixed in a later commit. The investigator determined this change did not appear malicious.</p>
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<p><strong>GitHub's working environment.</strong> Rhoma spent a significant amount of time investigating Julie's claims of sexual and gender based harassment. After interviewing over 50 employees, former employees, and reviewing evidence, Rhoma found nothing to support a sexist or discriminatory environment at GitHub, and no information to suggest retaliation against Julie for making sex/gender harassment complaints. Employees were asked about their experiences here, good and bad. Women at GitHub reported feeling supported, mentored, and protected at work, and felt they are treated equitably and are provided opportunities.</p>
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<p>Horvath took to Twitter, saying she was "satisfied" with the blog post, but noted that she did not think that the investigation was unbiased.</p>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>I'm pretty satisfied with <a href="https://twitter.com/defunkt">@Defunkt</a>'s blog post. I disagree about the objectiveness of the "investigation," as well as the toxic workplace.</p>
- Julie Ann Horvath (@nrrrdcore) <a href="https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/statuses/460862813565493249">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>GitHub also owes an apology to women their lack of employee protection and company culture has hurt in the past.</p>
- Julie Ann Horvath (@nrrrdcore) <a href="https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/statuses/460863351338180608">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>Also important to note that "found no evidence" does not mean it did not happen. I know what I experienced.</p>
- Julie Ann Horvath (@nrrrdcore) <a href="https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/statuses/460863577201446912">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>And yes, I deeply believe that what happened to me would not have happened to a man at GitHub.</p>
- Julie Ann Horvath (@nrrrdcore) <a href="https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/statuses/460864245433769984">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>But if no other women at GitHub feel like they have been mistreated based on their gender (which I know to be false), then ffs that's good!</p>
- Julie Ann Horvath (@nrrrdcore) <a href="https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/statuses/460864539085373442">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>

GitHub Admits That Former CEO 'Acted Inappropriately' And Offers More Details About Its Internal Investigation

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Despite widespread backlash over fake documentaries, supposedly educational networks are turning to them more and more in efforts to net viewers and in the process making people dumber.</p>
<p>Last year's <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">two-hour special on Discovery, called "Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives," <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/majority-of-discovery-channel-viewers-believe-megaldon-exists-2013-8">convinced 70% of viewers</a> that the giant prehistoric shark still exists even as outraged scientists insisted that the show was<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-channel-fake-megalodon-documentary-2013-8"> ludicrous and almost entirely fictional</a>. It didn't help that Discovery made coy comments about <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-channel-stands-by-its-fake-documentary-about-a-giant-shark-2013-8">what "might be" true</a>.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This summer, Discovery followed it up with <span>"Megalodon: The New Evidence," which became the highest-rated episode of Shark Week with </span><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-shark-week-hits-599707">4.8 million viewers</a><span>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The network also recently aired a fabricated documentary called "Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine" and </span><a href="http://io9.com/shark-week-lied-to-scientists-to-get-them-to-appear-in-1619280737">reportedly lied to scientists</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to get them to appear in another documentary, "Voodoo Sharks."</span></p>
<p>The similarly bunk "Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives" show aired on the channel in early June. The special follows a filmmaker as he researches footage apparently showing the deaths of nine hikers killed in 1959. <span style="font-size: 15.5555562973022px; line-height: 1.5em;">Perhaps the bigger mystery is how the doomed hikers got access to a high-quality digital camcorder in the late 50s.</span></p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Discovery-owned channel Animal Planet has aired two documentaries in recent years - </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/animal-planets-mermaids-mockumentary-2013-5#the-story-picks-up-nine-years-ago-when-two-boys-stumbled-upon-a-mass-whale-beaching-in-washington-state-mass-whale-die-offs-do-happen-and-have-been-linked-to-navy-sonar-tests-though-the-video-is-staged-1">replete with actors, fabricated events, and faked footage</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> - which explore the apparently scientific evidence for mermaids.</span></p>
<p>Although Animal Planet admited in a subsequent press release that its "documentary" was <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/890772/discovery-channel-defends-megalodon-mockumentary/">science-fiction</a>, the show itself presented its material as scientific.</p>
<p>Many viewers seem to take them at their word, with children being especially vulnerable to deception.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>Mermaids are real. Okay. Okay. Just watched the second documentary of mermaids. Yes they are real guys. ???? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mermaids?src=hash">#mermaids</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AnimalPlanet">@AnimalPlanet</a></p>
- cheyenne schmedding (@schmeddingc16) <a href="https://twitter.com/schmeddingc16/status/506488329290784768">September 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>Despite mermaids being neither real animals nor existing on the planet, <a href="http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/05/28/mermaids-animal-planet-ratings/">3.6 million viewers watched the latest mermaid special</a>, breaking all records for the channel.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Not to be outdone in the field of fake <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword>, The History Channel has also joined the trend of undermining its own credibility, airing programs such as "Nostradamus Effect," "Ancient Aliens," and "UFO Hunters" in recent years.</span></p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Each documentary, across all the networks, inevitably contains X-Files-like references to cover-ups and official denials. </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>We're now claiming that government officials and scientists are lying to the public and that you shouldn't trust them. FFS <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sharkweek?src=hash">#sharkweek</a></p>
- David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhySharksMatter/status/503617895264288771">August 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
<h3>Faking It</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">From mermaids to monster sharks, the Discovery Channel's fakes tend to follow a cookie cutter formula.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Megalodon uses amateur footage, news reports of fatal attacks, and several interviews with shark experts to make its case. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 15px;">The crew bases their narrative on the research of marine biologist Collin Drake as he travels the world speaking about the shark and gathering evidence.</span></p>
<p>But while the shark itself was real - swimming the oceans two million years ago - the same cannot be said for anything else in the special.</p>
<h3>The documentaries show "found footage" from a fatal attack off the South African coast which apparently left three people dead. It's fake; no such attacks took place.</h3>
<h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></h3>
<h3>The documentaries show news reports from "3 News" in South Africa. It's fake; no such channel exists.</h3>
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<h3>The documentaries air photos from the second world war showing the fin and tail of the shark next to a Nazi U-Boat.</h3>
<h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></h3>
<h3>This image is an altered still from a historical video, which we tracked down online.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></h3>
<h3>Searching for the world-renowned marine biologist Collin Drake only finds references to the documentary itself …</h3>
<h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></h3>
<h3>… but IMDB reveals that he's actually the slightly less qualified actor Darron Meyer, although he did play a doctor in a 2010 sequel to "Free Willy."</h3>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The documentaries contain no disclaimers to inform viewers they're watching fiction, though some brief text shown at the start which admits that one or two scenes may have been "dramatized" - quite the </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">understatement, unlikely to be intelligible to children, and useless to anyone who starts watching mid-show.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shark expert David Shiffman</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130807-discovery-megalodon-shark-week-great-white-sharks-animals/">told National Geographic</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, "Discovery is a joke, with the megalodon fiasco only being a confirmation of what has been clear for some time."</span></p>
<p>But despite many viewers (and scientists) <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-channel-fake-megalodon-documentary-2013-8">voicing their anger</a> at the Discovery Channel, the network stands by its fabrication.</p>
<p>Claiming there was legitimate scientific debate, Shark Week producer Michael Sorensen told Fox News: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-channel-stands-by-its-fake-documentary-about-a-giant-shark-2013-8#ixzz3Cji7eYrb">"The stories have been out there for years and with 95% of the ocean unexplored, who really knows?"</a></p>
<p>Marine biologists seem to know, and they haven't been quiet about it.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>"Is it possible that a prehistoric shark measuring 70 feet long is still roaming our oceans today?" No. No it is not. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SharkWeek?src=hash">#SharkWeek</a></p>
- David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhySharksMatter/status/503610350512517120">August 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>Schiffman told <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130807-discovery-megalodon-shark-week-great-white-sharks-animals/">National Geographic</a>, "Discovery bills itself as the premier science <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Education">education</keyword> television station in the world, and they're perpetuating this utter nonsense."</p>
<p>Indeed, much to the Discovery Channel's disappointment, every expert who has commented on either documentary agrees the Megalodon went extinct roughly 1.5 million years ago.</p>
<p>If there were any actual scientific debate, the Discovery Channel probably wouldn't have needed to doctor footage, fake news reports, and pay actors to play "scientific experts."</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Business Insider reached out to History and Discovery for comment on these criticisms but did not receive a response.</span></p>

Discovery Is Becoming More And More Ridiculous With Its Fake Documentaries

<h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>"Here we… here we… here we f***ing go!!!" -&#xa0;Jeremy Corbyn</h2><p>The year got off to a bang with a series of expletive-ridden tweets from Jeremy Corbyn. A spokesperson for the Labour leader <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/10/davey-cameron-is-a-pie-jeremy-corbyns-twitter-account-hijacked">later claimed</a> that his account had been hacked, but we'd prefer to believe that&#xa0;it was actually a botched experiment with his personal brand. Other tweets sent out from his account included "f*** trident," "straya c***" and our personal favourite "davey cameron is a pie," which in retrospect is hard to argue against. All in all, Corbyn really set the tone for the year to come.</p><h2>"Anything with a Bollywood theme, I lap it up" -&#xa0;Zac Goldsmith</h2><p>If you're a right-wing politician then 2016 has almost certainly been a good year. Right across the western world the right have been resurgent with social democratic parties in heavy retreat. One of the few exceptions to this trend is Zac Goldsmith who this year lost not just one election, but two. One of the highlights of his first defeat, in the race for London mayor, was a particularly awkward interview on the red carpet of the Asian Awards. "I'm a Bollywood fan, so anything with a Bollywood theme I lap it up," he said. However, when asked for examples of his favourite Bollywood films he dried up: "Let me think. No I wouldn't be able to. I'm not going to give you one. I can't think of a favourite." If the red carpet could have swallowed him up it would have done.</p><h2>"A pansexual for London" - Zac Goldsmith</h2><p>Goldsmith was similarly out of his depth in an interview with <a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/03/04/zac-goldsmith-i-want-to-be-pansexual-for-london/">Pink News</a>. Asked whether he would be a mayor for all Londoners, he replied, inexplicably: "I would use the term pansexual here, if my understanding is correct. I would be the mayor for all of London." For some reason London's voters opted out of a pansexual experience with the former MP for Richmond.</p><h2>"My dad was a bus driver" - Sadiq Khan</h2><p>The London mayoral election was ultimately won convincingly by Labour's Sadiq Khan. Khan's campaign made much of his lowly council estate background. He was also particularly keen on referring to his dad's job choice.</p><h2>"We have got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain" - David Cameron</h2><p>Cameron's year was inescablaly awful all round. Caught on camera in May speaking to the Queen, Cameron explained that he had been at Cabinet talking about the upcoming anti-corruption summit.</p><p>"We have got the Nigerians - actually we have got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries<br>coming to Britain," he boasted.</br></p><p>Cameron went on: "Nigeria and Afghanistan - possibly two of the most corrupt countries in the world."</p><p>Her Majesty, ever the diplomat, did not respond.</p><h2>"We're going to win - maybe by 70-30" - David Cameron</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Cameron's decision to call the EU referendum will go down as one of the biggest miscalculations in political history. Not only did the former PM wrongly believe that the referendum would be easily won by the Remain side, he also <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3482b434-c37d-11e6-81c2-f57d90f6741a">privately told other EU leaders the same</a>. As a result, the EU had no incentive to offer Cameron a more favourable renegotiation deal. Had they done so, the EU referendum could well have gone the other way.<h2>"The trouble is, I am not an outer" - Boris Johnson</h2><p>The former London mayor's conversion to the Leave campaign is one of the most disputed political events this year. Johnson claims he was always an instinctive Eurosceptic. However a number of Tory MPs say that Johnson <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/634050/Boris-Johnson-EU-Brexit-David-Cameron-Eurosceptic">told them</a> he was "not an outer" at the start of the year. It's not just his colleagues in Parliament who were surprised by Johnson's U-turn. His former colleagues at City Hall also report that they were shocked when he came out for Leave. "He was never a leaver," one former City Hall staffer told Business Insider. "The whole thing was purely about positioning himself for the leadership."</p><h2>"It is absurd that you are told that you cannot sell bananas in bunches of more than two or three" - Boris Johnson</h2><p>Boris Johnson on the stump during the EU referendum campaign. There are no EU laws against selling bananas in bunches of more than two or three.</p><h2>"The very first person I come to is a horrible racist. I'm never coming back to wherever this is"- Pat Glass</h2><p>The EU referendum campaign was a gruelling experience for British politicians this year, not least for shadow Europe minister Pat Glass, who recounted her time campaigning for Remain on the streets of Derbyshire.</p><h2>"I think the people of this country have had enough of experts" - Michael Gove</h2><p>The former justice secretary had a torrid year after successfully fronting the Leave campaign, before bringing down the careers of not one, but two, of his government colleagues. However, it was his comments during the campaign, that British people have "had enough of experts," which he will be most remembered for.</p><h2>"Brits don't quit" - David Cameron</h2><p>Cameron used his last appeal to voters in the EU referendum to proclaim that "Brits don't quit." Brits disagreed apparently, as did Cameron himself, who quickly stood down both as prime minister and Tory leader after the result came in. Two months later he quit as MP for Witney.</p><h2>"Doo doo dee doo" - David Cameron</h2><p>The former prime minister hums himself a little tune after announcing his departure from Downing Street.</p><h2>"That's the difference between our two parties. Labour's still fumbling with its flies while the Tories are enjoying a post-coital cigarette after withdrawing our massive Johnson" - Ruth Davidson</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Scottish Conservative leader <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/12/ruth-davidson-pokes-fun-at-andrea-leadsom-and-boris-johnson">jokes</a> about the departure of the former mayor of London from the race to be Tory leader.<h2>"We won without a single bullet being fired" - Nigel Farage</h2><p>There were few more controversial figures in British <keyword id="6358883" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Politics">politics</keyword> this year than Nigel Farage. Shortly after winning the EU referendum, the former UKIP leader told a crowd that it had been won "without a single bullet being fired." This was just one week after the murder of the Remain-campaigning MP Jo Cox.</p><h2>"Seumas I'm not sure this is a great idea" - Jeremy Corbyn</h2><p>Before the full impact&#xa0;of the EU referendum result had even sunk in, the Labour party embarked on a period of self-destruction, culminating in the resignation of dozens of MPs from Corbyn's front bench and a long and deeply damaging leadership contest. As the challenge against the Labour leader began, his press chief Seumas Milne invited the cameras in for a show of unity among what was left of the shadow cabinet. One microphone picked up a worried Corbyn, sat next to Tom Watson, urging Milne to ask the cameras to leave. When the cameras returned, Watson had been removed - Soviet-style - from Corbyn's side.</p><h2>"If he carries on like this he will destroy both the Labour party and the country" - Labour MP</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>One former shadow cabinet member <a href="http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2016/06/28/jeremy-corbyn-existential-battle-future-labour-party">speaks to journalists</a> after leaving a meeting between Labour MPs and Jeremy Corbyn.<h2>"Bring out the traitors" - Corbyn supporters</h2><p>As Corbyn faced growing insurrection from his own MPs, many of his more passionate supporters <a href="http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2016/06/28/jeremy-corbyn-existential-battle-future-labour-party">gathered outside</a> in Parliament Square to shore up&#xa0;their leader.</p><h2>"The only good thing about it is that, as plotters, they're f***ing&#xa0;useless" - John McDonnell</h2><p>Shadow chancellor John McDonnell gives his verdict on Labour MP's failed attempts to oust Corbyn.</p><h2>"BBC anyone? No. OK, Robert Peston, where are you? Michael Crick?" - Angela Eagle</h2><p>One such failed attempt was launched by Labour MP Angela Eagle, whose own bid to become Labour leader crashed to the&#xa0;ground shortly after take off. Journalists quickly abandoned her launch event after Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom announced that she was pulling out of the race to be the next Conservative prime minister.</p><h2>"It pained me that we didn't have the strength and the power and the vitality to smash her back on her heels" - Owen Smith</h2><p>In the end, it fell to former shadow Welsh secretary Owen Smith to take on Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. From the off, the bid was less than successful, with Smith exhibiting a tendency to make a series of questionable remarks about women. His <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/27/corbyn-campaign-criticises-owen-smith-for-smashing-theresa-may-remark">comment</a> that he would like to "smash [Theresa May] back on her heels" caused particular controversy.</p><h2>"No I don't regret it. I just think it was a bit of political banter" - Owen Smith</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Smith also came under scrutiny for previous comments about wanting to shut Nicola Sturgeon up with a gobstopper. <a href="http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2016/09/05/owen-smith-says-sexist-nicola-sturgeon-tweet-was-just-banter">Asked by your humble correspondent</a>&#xa0;whether he regretted the comments, Smith replied that it was just "political banter." These controversies combined with an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3772222/Labour-leadership-hopeful-Owen-Smith-forced-deny-joked-having-29-inch-penis.html">ill-advised joke about the size of his manhood</a>, all helped to dampen what little enthusiasm there was for his leadership bid among Labour members.<h2>"Today this train is completely ram-packed" - Jeremy Corbyn</h2><p>Corbyn's own leadership campaign wasn't entirely trouble-free. One viral video of him sitting on the floor of a busy Virgin train, caused him major troubles after&#xa0;the train company released CCTV images suggesting the Labour leader had walked past empty seats before sitting on the floor.</p><h2>"Can I finish please? Thank you" - Jeremy Corbyn</h2><p>One of the main reasons Corbyn won his second leadership campaign was the widespread view among Labour members that he simply hadn't been given a long enough chance to succeed. Ultimately, most members decided that he should be allowed to finish what he had started.</p><h2>"If they want to get rid of him the best thing would be to wait and let Jeremy fail on his own time" - Gavin Sibthorpe</h2><p>Perhaps the most prescient quote of 2016 came from a little-known Corbyn staffer called Gavin Sibthorpe. Sibthorpe told a Vice News documentary back in May, that Corbyn's critics would be best off leaving him to fail on his own terms before seeking to oust him. This idea, known in Labour circles as "the Sibthorpe Doctrine" is now the consensus view among Labour MPs critical of Corbyn.</p><h2>"Corbyn doesn't appeal to the mainstream working class vote. It's to do with a cultural thing about London." - Paul Mason</h2><p>One of the most remarkable transformations this year has been that of former BBC and Channel Four economics correspondent Paul Mason into a Corbyn-supporting activist. Mason has transformed himself into one of the Labour leader's most vocal supporters. However, an illicit recording of Mason by the Sun revealed that even he privately has big doubts about Corbyn's&#xa0;electability. His private suggestion that the leadership should pass to fellow left-wing Labour MP Clive Lewis, is one that is now gaining ground among the left of the party.</p><h2>"Brexit means Brexit" - Theresa May</h2><p>No list of political quotes from 2016 would be complete without Theresa May's notorious, and tautologous statement that "Brexit means Brexit."</p><h2>"Brexit means Breakfast" - Various</h2><p>Welsh Conservative leader Andrew Davies greatly amused his party conference in September after accidentally mistaking Brexit for breakfast. It was a mistake subsequently made by many others.</p><h2>"There will be no cakes on the table, for anyone. There will be only salt and vinegar." - Donald Tusk.</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>The EU council president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/13/its-hard-brexit-or-no-brexit-at-all-says-eu-council-president?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook">responds</a> to claims that Britain would like to "have our&#xa0;cake and eat it" with regards to Brexit.<h2>"Actually what we should be looking for is a red, white and blue Brexit" - Theresa May</h2><p>The prime minister reveals her <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/red-white-and-blue-brexit-the-worst-uk-political-slogans-of-all-time-2016-12">latest Brexit&#xa0;catchphrase</a> whilst on a trip to Bahrain.</p><h2>"Handbags at dawn, girl on girl, it was embarrassing" - Mike Hookem</h2><p>Despite winning the EU referendum, UKIP has had a particularly torrid year. The low point came when UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe was hospitalised after an alleged punch-up with his party colleague Mike Hookem. Hookem denied punching Woolfe, describing the incident as "handbags at dawn." Hookem's nominative determinism didn't end there, as he was later appointed the party's fishing industry spokesperson.</p><h2>"Dogs barking deters drones" - Liz Truss</h2><p>One of the most bizarre moments of 2016 came when justice secretary Liz Truss told Parliament that barking dogs are being used to deter drones from passing contraband into prisons. As one Labour MP shouted out in the chamber: "it's the minister who is barking."</p><h2>"I gave the answer I gave," - Theresa May</h2><p>As we head into 2017, we still know little about the Brexit deal that May's government would like to secure from the EU. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-mps-theresa-may-liaison-committee-final-vote-on-brexit-article-50-2016-12">Earlier this week</a>&#xa0;MPs spent well over an hour trying to pin the prime minister down on her plans, to little effect. 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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Professor and author Alice Dreger attended sex <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Education">education</keyword> class with her son last week and was not happy with what she saw.<p>Having <a href="https://twitter.com/AliceDreger">a large Twitter following</a> already, she live-tweeted the experience and some of what she said was retweeted more than 100 times. (We've embedded all of her tweets at the bottom of the post.)</p><p>Now, thanks to the attention she brought to the issue, the district will likely reform its sex education curriculum.</p><p>Dreger and other parents met with the principal, Coby Fletcher, and school board president, <span>Nell Kuhnmuench,</span>&#xa0;last night.</p><p>"It was great!" said <a href="https://twitter.com/AliceDreger/status/590671173194743808">one tweet</a>&#xa0;from Dreger. "The parents were clear:&#xa0;<span>WTF is a religious group doing coming in teaching our kids sex, handing out virginity pledge cards?"</span></p><p><span>The school board has yet to vote, she added, but their president said,&#xa0;"It is highly unlikely we will ever engage that group again," according to <a href="https://twitter.com/AliceDreger/status/590671376253607936">another tweet</a>.</span></p><p>The class was led by two visitors who were affiliated with a Christian pro-life group, Dreger <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/apr/21/what-i-learned-sex-ed-class-absintence">wrote in the&#xa0;<em>Guardian</em>.</a>&#xa0;Much of what they told the 14-to-18-year-old co-ed class amounted to scare tactics designed to dissuade students from ever having sex.</p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For example, one man associated his own premarital sex, which resulted in two pregnancies with two different women, with drug use and his failure to finish school. It was only after he found a woman who refused to sleep with him for two years that he was able to get his life together, he told the students, </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/apr/21/what-i-learned-sex-ed-class-absintence">according to Dreger</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer">&#xa0;The pro-life visitors also told the students that condoms have an 18 percent failure rate (which is disputed by other studies), while failing to discuss other forms of birth control.</p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">They played a dice game that resulted in every student in the class "getting pregnant" and having to take home a paper baby, according to Dreger.</span></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After the class, Dreger spoke to the teacher and, in her own words, "lost it."</span></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer">Dreger is now banned from visiting the school, except during drop-off and pick-up and at her son's events, she later tweeted.</p><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to a column from Judy Putnam of the </span><em style="line-height: 1.5em;">Lansing State Journal</em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, not all of the ELHS parents are happy about Dreger's advocacy. Putnam specifically takes issue with the language Dreger used in her tweets and in a heated conversation with the sex ed teacher that followed the class.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"Intentional or not, Dreger's tweets taint East Lansing schools as a hayseed district," Putnam <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/04/21/sex-ed-parents-east-lansing/26116073/">writes</a>&#xa0;on the&#xa0;<em>Detroit Free Press</em> website. "I live there. I know it is not a backwater public school system that might be debating creationism on any given day."</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Also, Michigan's sex ed is legislated at the state level and legally required to include information on abstinence.</span></p><p>Here are all of Dreger's tweets - there are a lot - from the hourlong class she observed.&#xa0;</p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p>&#xa0;</p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p><p class="embed-spacer"></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/create-dynamic-named-ranges-excel-data-2015-2">This Excel trick will save you time and impress your boss</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="xqY3k3bjqdVvP-8E0RjOQTJMN-Rfh2eI" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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