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	<title>Comments on: Science and Entertainment Exchange&#8230; from their mouths</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Comic Con in review! &#124; Bad Astronomy &#124; Discover Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Comic Con in review! &#124; Bad Astronomy &#124; Discover Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The former was the reason Discover Magazine sent me; the panel was sponsored by them as well as by the Science and Entertainment Exchange. It featured panelists Jaime Paglia and Kevin Grazier (the executive producer and science advisor [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The former was the reason Discover Magazine sent me; the panel was sponsored by them as well as by the Science and Entertainment Exchange. It featured panelists Jaime Paglia and Kevin Grazier (the executive producer and science advisor [...]</p>
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		<title>By: SteveA</title>
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		<dc:creator>SteveA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe I&#039;m the only one that&#039;s latched on to the whole &quot;scientist on speed dial&quot; thing&quot;. This may actually lead to a more accurate portrayal of science in television and movies. Better yet, with these people making themselves available, writers &amp; directors have no excuse, save pure laziness, for not taking advantage of such a resource. Very cool.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m the only one that&#8217;s latched on to the whole &#8220;scientist on speed dial&#8221; thing&#8221;. This may actually lead to a more accurate portrayal of science in television and movies. Better yet, with these people making themselves available, writers &#038; directors have no excuse, save pure laziness, for not taking advantage of such a resource. Very cool.</p>
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		<title>By: Latest Entertainment news - Array &#124; WIKINTI</title>
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		<dc:creator>Latest Entertainment news - Array &#124; WIKINTI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Science and Entertainment Exchange&#8230; from their mouths &#124; Bad &#8230; [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Andy o</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy o</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Concepts like Peter Griffin and his daughter making out and sleeping together are common ( featured in a recent episode) and are repulsive and should be classified as child pornography (Meg is 13 in the “cartoon”). &lt;/blockquote&gt;
No, they&#039;re not common. Not even close. In fact, it has &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; happened. That one time you refer to, it wasn&#039;t either Peter, or Meg. They were different characters in a side-story, and not even related.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Concepts like Peter Griffin and his daughter making out and sleeping together are common ( featured in a recent episode) and are repulsive and should be classified as child pornography (Meg is 13 in the “cartoon”). </p></blockquote>
<p>No, they&#8217;re not common. Not even close. In fact, it has <i>never</i> happened. That one time you refer to, it wasn&#8217;t either Peter, or Meg. They were different characters in a side-story, and not even related.</p>
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		<title>By: JB of Brisbane</title>
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		<dc:creator>JB of Brisbane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a noble gesture by some knowledgeable people, but do you really think producers, directors and writers are going to risk looking like the ignoramuses (ignorami?) they are by consulting a group who might know more than them about the actual way something works? You should see the airliner buffs pick movies like &quot;Turbulence&quot; and &quot;Air Force One&quot; to pieces. Ditto rail fans and movies like &quot;Silver Streak&quot; (thanks to Mr Westinghouse and others, detatched portions of trains do not continue rolling out of control once the brake hoses part). If they can&#039;t even get that right, what hope have they got with any sort of scientific concept?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a noble gesture by some knowledgeable people, but do you really think producers, directors and writers are going to risk looking like the ignoramuses (ignorami?) they are by consulting a group who might know more than them about the actual way something works? You should see the airliner buffs pick movies like &#8220;Turbulence&#8221; and &#8220;Air Force One&#8221; to pieces. Ditto rail fans and movies like &#8220;Silver Streak&#8221; (thanks to Mr Westinghouse and others, detatched portions of trains do not continue rolling out of control once the brake hoses part). If they can&#8217;t even get that right, what hope have they got with any sort of scientific concept?</p>
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		<title>By: James F</title>
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		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phil,

This would be good to bring up during one of the D*C panels.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil,</p>
<p>This would be good to bring up during one of the D*C panels.</p>
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		<title>By: kuhnigget</title>
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		<dc:creator>kuhnigget</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Wha?

&lt;i&gt;While it may be “just a cartoon” it deeply, subconsciously effects people as do all cleverly concocted imagery.&lt;/i&gt;

As does every single object, person, place, book, movie, record, etc. that one encounters throughout one&#039;s life. Although I may quibble about the &quot;deeply, subconsciously&quot; part. 

&lt;i&gt;Concepts like Peter Griffin and his daughter making out and sleeping together are common ( featured in a recent episode) and are repulsive and should be classified as child pornography (Meg is 13 in the “cartoon”). &lt;/i&gt;

Actually, Meg is 16 in the cartoon. And every episode of &lt;i&gt;Family Guy&lt;/i&gt; begins with a large, mandated by law warning, with graphics and audio, that ticks off exactly what the viewer can expect: adult language, situations, cartoon violence and sex. That&#039;s why it&#039;s on at 9 pm. And that&#039;s why anyone who would have a problem with children watching the show has ample warning. Of course that&#039;s not enough for some people, who would rather Big Nanny take care of their children for them.

Repulsive? That&#039;s the point! Maybe you&#039;d prefer it if Fox were to air concerts by teenage heartthrobs who earn their parent corporations millions of dollars by selling sex to prepubescent girls? Oh, wait...that&#039;s the Disney Channel and the Jonas Brothers.

&lt;i&gt;When incest and sex with kids enters the everyday vernacular at the American Dinner table, just because its in “just a cartoon,” we have some pretty being problems.&lt;/i&gt;

Is that what you talk about around your dinner table? You might want to look into your own family&#039;s issues before proscribing what others can and cannot watch on TV.

&lt;i&gt;Seth claims to “put a mirror in the face of the society” and that is why people do not like his cartoons. &lt;/i&gt;

Actually, &lt;i&gt;Family Guy&lt;/i&gt; scores consistently high in the ratings. I&#039;d say quite a few people like his cartoons.

&lt;i&gt;One of his cartoons has nothing but the real Seth interacting with viewers, may of which he openly mocks. &lt;/i&gt; 

I guess you missed it, but at the beginning of the episode you&#039;re referring to, McFarlane makes it quite clear the whole show is satire, down to his description of himself as just another &quot;Hollywood millionaire.&quot; Maybe the sarcasm light wasn&#039;t working on your TV. 

&lt;i&gt;The reality Seth is putting a picture in the face of society, and guess what? Its the picture of what he wants society to be.&lt;/i&gt;

Yes, he wants society to be full of morbidly obese, borderline retarded, flatulence-obsessed, beer-guzzling, New Englanders. Oh, and talking dogs who drink like a fish.   Ehyup.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Wha?</p>
<p><i>While it may be “just a cartoon” it deeply, subconsciously effects people as do all cleverly concocted imagery.</i></p>
<p>As does every single object, person, place, book, movie, record, etc. that one encounters throughout one&#8217;s life. Although I may quibble about the &#8220;deeply, subconsciously&#8221; part. </p>
<p><i>Concepts like Peter Griffin and his daughter making out and sleeping together are common ( featured in a recent episode) and are repulsive and should be classified as child pornography (Meg is 13 in the “cartoon”). </i></p>
<p>Actually, Meg is 16 in the cartoon. And every episode of <i>Family Guy</i> begins with a large, mandated by law warning, with graphics and audio, that ticks off exactly what the viewer can expect: adult language, situations, cartoon violence and sex. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s on at 9 pm. And that&#8217;s why anyone who would have a problem with children watching the show has ample warning. Of course that&#8217;s not enough for some people, who would rather Big Nanny take care of their children for them.</p>
<p>Repulsive? That&#8217;s the point! Maybe you&#8217;d prefer it if Fox were to air concerts by teenage heartthrobs who earn their parent corporations millions of dollars by selling sex to prepubescent girls? Oh, wait&#8230;that&#8217;s the Disney Channel and the Jonas Brothers.</p>
<p><i>When incest and sex with kids enters the everyday vernacular at the American Dinner table, just because its in “just a cartoon,” we have some pretty being problems.</i></p>
<p>Is that what you talk about around your dinner table? You might want to look into your own family&#8217;s issues before proscribing what others can and cannot watch on TV.</p>
<p><i>Seth claims to “put a mirror in the face of the society” and that is why people do not like his cartoons. </i></p>
<p>Actually, <i>Family Guy</i> scores consistently high in the ratings. I&#8217;d say quite a few people like his cartoons.</p>
<p><i>One of his cartoons has nothing but the real Seth interacting with viewers, may of which he openly mocks. </i> </p>
<p>I guess you missed it, but at the beginning of the episode you&#8217;re referring to, McFarlane makes it quite clear the whole show is satire, down to his description of himself as just another &#8220;Hollywood millionaire.&#8221; Maybe the sarcasm light wasn&#8217;t working on your TV. </p>
<p><i>The reality Seth is putting a picture in the face of society, and guess what? Its the picture of what he wants society to be.</i></p>
<p>Yes, he wants society to be full of morbidly obese, borderline retarded, flatulence-obsessed, beer-guzzling, New Englanders. Oh, and talking dogs who drink like a fish.   Ehyup.</p>
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