MythBusters
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MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series is screened by numerous international broadcasters, including SBS Australia, 7mate Australia, and other Discovery channels worldwide. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories. The show is one of the oldest—and the most popular—on Discovery Channel currently in production, being preceded only by How It's Made in the US and Daily Planet in Canada.
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See also
- Similar television series
- Bang Goes the Theory
- Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Brainiac: Science Abuse
- Dude, What Would Happen?
- Food Detectives
- It's Effin' Science
- Proving Ground
- The Re-Inventors
- Rock and Roll Acid Test
- Smash Lab
- Time Warp
- Urban Legends
- General
- Hollywood Science
- List of common misconceptions
- Snopes.com
- The Straight Dope
- Urban legend
- Falsifiability
- FactCheck.org
- The Skeptic's Dictionary
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