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[moon_custafer]

Cracked actually runs some pretty good commentary these days. Here's one about the problematic portrayal of geniuses on tv; and yes, I've heard of the "CSI Effect" on juries.

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I then read their "5 TV Shows you wouldn't believe saved someone's life." Most of them were cases where people recognized their own symptoms in a tv storyline, or a kid saw someone choking and did the Heimlich manoeuvre from having seen it in a cartoon; which seems* like a good reason for TV writers to get the details as right as they can.


* Also a nice change from the "someone got themselves killed trying to replicate a stunt they saw on tv" stories.