Thursday, May 1, 2008

Occam's Dildo and Ghost Hunters

What was that! Spooky! I bet it was a ghost. My goodness that was totally impressive.

Shows with the basic premise of bringing a bunch of cameras to someplace dark and allegedly creepy (cemeteries, castles, insane asylums, old houses) and being afraid of the dark make for horrifically bad television if you ask me. It's amazingly stupid to attribute every sound to a ghost and every smudge to a ghost. These shows constantly exploit Occam's Dildo, rather than preferring the simplest explanation people opt for the most titillating explanation.

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