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Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior

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Re: Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior

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Post by gowld »

deltateam wrote: post #18

upon reading the whole article, it is mostly true. "mass dispersal" occurs when the population grows too much and the food runs out, sometimes it can be very directional, and sometimes they will pile up on the shore until they gets too packed and they try to swim across frigid waters. the Disney mass suicide documentary says this can be observed every 7 - 10 years, and then they over dramatized how it looks edit: rem…

Blue Planet is not filming captive animals in faked environments doing unnatural behaviors.

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Post by csours »

mlindner wrote: post #17
ibdf wrote: post #15

Wait.. is the game based on this same fictional fact?

Yes, but it existed before the game or Disney were around.

It took me a while to realize that you were saying that the myth was around before the game and Disney. For some reason I thought you meant the game was around before Disney.

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Post by IncRnd »

Disney is a money-many endeavor that sometimes cuts corners and spreads untruths. I'm not against making money, just against those who would lie and defraud others to make more of it.

Businessinsider.com has a page that shows four that Disney apologized about or said were untrue. [1]

In the same way, Dan Rather, Brian Williams, and others were believed to be great reporters, even though they created their own sensationalized fake news to get ratings.

One of the items from Rather was called "Fake but Accurate" by Rather. "The New York Times' headline report on this interview, including the phrase "Fake but Accurate," created an immediate backlash from critics of CBS's broadcast. The conservative-leaning Weekly Standard proceeded to predict the end of CBS's news division." [2]

One of Williams stories about being in a flaming plane that was shot down was debunked by the soldiers who were in the plane with him, the plane that was unhit and unlit. Williams later apologized, saying he didn't "know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another." [3]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-channels-fake-docum...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy

[3] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/nbcs-brian-williams-apol...

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Post by excalibur »

ljf wrote: post #22
IshKebab wrote: post #3

There should be a list of commonly known facts that people who are new to the internet have to read so they don't think things like this are novel.

I hate to be the guy that posts xkcd links.. . But: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

There's an appropriate xkcd for most any conversation. Posting them is far more beneficial to the community than downvoting them.

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Post by whatshisface »

csours wrote: post #23
mlindner wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but it existed before the game or Disney were around.

It took me a while to realize that you were saying that the myth was around before the game and Disney. For some reason I thought you meant the game was around before Disney.

You thought that because the last (parent's) sentence was talking about the game, and "it" tends to refer to the last noun that was talked about.

Re: Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior

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Post by shkkmo »

CodesInChaos wrote: post #5
IshKebab wrote: post #3

There should be a list of commonly known facts that people who are new to the internet have to read so they don't think things like this are novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Which among many other things, mentions the Lemming Suicide myth: > Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes (also staged by using multiple shots of different groups of lemmings) on a large, snow-covered turntable in…

This is one of my favorite wikipedia pages. I'm not aware of any other resource that does so much to fix our broken epistemology.
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