[dinosaur] Prehistoric Road Trip,Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts

Hello,

I am another person that did not like the show. It is indeed too much giggling, smiling. Too amateurish...

I personally think that the presenter (Emily) does not seem to grasp well the science of paleontology. And why should she? after all she is not a degreed paleontologist !. I think it depicts paleontology in a too idealistic way i.e. you just dig here and there and there it is ! Museum quality piece ! The reality is that field work is hard work many times under harsh conditions.

But I did like to see Native Americans participating in the show, showing that they also do some paleontology in their lands.

Virginia

In a message dated 7/18/2020 5:29:21 PM Central Standard Time, tholtz@umd.edu writes:

Oh, grow up.

Having talked with Emily Graslie before, during, and after the filming of this, there was indeed a conscious choice of representation in this show. And the idea was that after fifty years of paleo-documentaries on TV, maybe having ONE that doesn't heavily feature white men from big institutions is okay. Just one. You may have missed the fact that she tried to focus on research not by the AMNH or Smithsonian or so forth. The MOR and the ROM were the biggest institutions represented, and she tried to make sure many smaller ones were featured as well (the Tate, Carter County, etc.).

Obviously this is more than your sweet little self can handle.

Additionally, Graslie states the premise from the beginning: it is to show something of process of discovery being made and the people making it in the places she grew up. Full stop. Never claimed that this was a remake of Walking with Dinosaurs or Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives or whatever. Those already exist. This was supposed to be a different kind of story.

And her attitude is a big feature on SciShow. Some people might like it, others don't. Your mileage may vary.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 6:18 PM aviva <aviva@gmx.us> wrote:

On 7/18/20 5:00 PM, Gregory Paul wrote:
> I am working on an article on paleoracism for Prehistoric Times.

please don't. White men bad... we all know. I saved you the trouble now.

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