"'Ghost Lab' is one of the most recent of a furiously clenched handful of ghost-hunting shows currently polluting the airwaves. While all these shows have their different methods of seeking out paranormal activity, they all share one attribute in common: an absolute disregard for science and critical thinking.
The especially atrocious disservice 'Ghost Lab' does to science makes the show stand out in this collection of ludicrous ghost-hunting shows. The Klinge brothers, Brad and Barry, start every episode with the statement that their group uses science to investigate claims of the paranormal. This so-called use of science involves formulating theories and designing tests for those theories on the spot.
But what the Klinge brothers fail to do every single time is eliminate all other non-paranormal explanations for the alleged ghostly activity they capture on their video cameras and audio recorders. Real science works through meticulous experimentation that is designed to show a given hypothesis to be false. If the hypothesis holds fast through the testing phase, then the scientists involved begin to think the hypothesis may accurately describe a small piece of the way the world works.
The Klinge brothers take the opposite approach."
Jeremy Schwartz, explaining how two buff buffoons - working backwards - betray the beliefs behind them (and their fans) on
The Western Front.
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