The Creation Museum advertises on Discovery?

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Reposted from http://friendlyatheist.com/.

I thought this was a promotional piece for an episode of MythBusters.

It’s not.

Discovery Channel ran an ad for the Creation Museum.

Or to put it another way: A science channel ran an ad that said the programming on that channel tells you lies.

Daniel Florien explains:

Recently, one of our readers was watching Extreme Machines on the Science Channel with his son. The inevitable ads came on — and he saw an advertisement for the Creation Museum, the anti-science young-earth creationist museum.

Perhaps next month we’ll start seeing ads for the Flat Earth Society on their channels. Or maybe public service announcements on how children shouldn’t be immunized.

I hope this is a corporate commerical — one that Discovery had nothing to do with — but it’s still disturbing.

Did someone not notice the conflict?

Is FOXNews about to purchase a commercial spot on MSNBC?

Who at the Creation Museum thought it’d be a good use of the marketing budget to advertise specifically to people who disagree with you?