Incorrect funny definitions of insects in the literature and on the web

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23.11.2007 16:37, AlexEvs

My amusements:
1. I have a children's encyclopedia "Insects". There's a spider drawn on the cover. And Inside it tells not only about insects, but also about all arthropods.
2. Mass media generally rules! Do you know such a program "Unbelievable, but a fact"? If you don't know, then be sure to check it out! On RenTV, it seems to show. There was an issue about parallel worlds. So, comrades, parallel worlds include caves. So they were exploring a cave in Israel. And there in the reservoir, under a bacterial film, the hand of one of the expedition members (Oh HORROR) was touched by a crustacean! No ordinary crustacean, because there is NO OXYGEN in the cave! And all the living crustaceans breathe (what would you think?) NITROGEN (or carbon dioxide - I don't remember, but it's not so important)! And the ecosystem there is absolutely baldezhnaya-large crustaceans eat small ones, those are even smaller and there are up to bacteria. VERY interesting program! Sometimes they repeat themselves, so there is a chance that they will come across again. Often they show about "great scientists" cryptozoologists. In general, the pleasure is one!
3. About hummingbirds and hawkmoth-on the entire Black Sea coast of hawkmoth I count hummingbirds. It's impossible to prove anything!
4. About snakes. I have a friend who is terribly afraid of them. And the most terrible snake - copperhead! Deadly poisonous! The grandfather of this friend escaped from her. And the only way to save yourself is to get on a horse and ride against the sun. Otherwise, the copperhead gets stuck in the wheel and rolls after you. And the tail can break a horse's legs! In how!
It seems to be all that I remembered... Anything else that happens - I will definitely write!

This post was edited by AlexEvs - 11/23/2007 16: 39

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26.11.2007 12:34, AlexEvs

Here's another thing I remembered! American art kina personally gives me much more pleasure than the domestic mass media. Who watched the movie "Space Marines"? When it was first shown on television, the whole biofac was still shaking for a month with the cry "Arachnids are coming!". And what is the cost of a giant Blaps that spews fire? And not only that, but when they poked a hole in it, there was also fire inside the beetle!
And yesterday I watched a wonderful movie called "Komodo vs Cobra". I no longer pay attention to the infinite number of charges in the pistols of the main characters. But to call the monitor lizard and cobra amphibians! And giant leeches that look like carrots! People, apparently, have never seen leeches...

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20.12.2007 7:13, Ekos

Yeah, it's been happening all the time lately. If you don't know anything about entomology, just keep quiet and you'll be a smart person. But no, they want to show off, show their stupidity. As a result, the biological literacy of ordinary people who read such x...y falls even more. And they don't know it's not true, and they believe it. In general, for such misinformation, it is necessary to somehow punish such impure people. Although here's how-that's the question.
And I also noticed that almost all people who are not connected with biology are completely illiterate in this area. It feels like they weren't taught it at school. Although there are also enough such individuals among biology students (and not only students) in our time. I'll digress a little. For one semester, I taught environmental students (specialty-general ecology) of the second year of the university in one of their specialized disciplines. I made sure in the course of classes that they do not know the simplest thing. But one student just finished me off. I asked her a question on the test-what kind of fuel do nuclear power plants work on? I hammered it for half an hour, and made all sorts of hints. And I didn't get an answer that it was on nuclear fuel. She had the answers - on water, on coal, etc. Although I devoted two whole two-hour classes to environmental problems related to nuclear power. The people are degraded in terms of natural science literacy, this is visible to the naked eye. Sadly...

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21.12.2007 16:39, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Maybe they shouldn't, but what would they do? Was the number reprinted? I doubt it very much. And it is unlikely that such mistakes would become less frequent.
It's just that the level is not the same, but more serious publications would clearly respond to criticism, at least apologize to readers and try to find a more qualified specialist. So it seems to me

And in vain it seems... Well, I'm a pessimist... I remember a few years ago on one of the central channels there was a heartbreaking report about mutant bedbugs that devoured everything, and now mutate (!) and started flying. At the same time, all this was commented on by some local "specialist"-either an agronomist, or a teacher from some university... Even on TV, it was clear that we were talking about an outbreak of some Pentatomidae.

But I also remember (no, I can't forget this!) how in Komsomolskaya Pravda the horse was an artiodactyl...

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