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Not entirely the most impartial exposé, but entertaining nonetheless

• bertil 13y ago
  As are all Vice shows: always thrilling, generally subjective and partial to a fault. Reminds me of XIXth century travelers, and how surprisingly revealing those remained, if properly annotated. Their most commonly quoted ‘documentary’ as the extreme of that lack of journalistic value is on Scopolamine (a compound commonly used in pharmacy) and the fear its instills as a will-bending drug in Colombia: it doesn't feature a pharmacist explaining that the fears are pointless, just a scrawny hipster wondering if anyone has actually witnessed an incident. It's a great case of ethnography and which-hunting, but the omission (presumably intention to keep the sensationalist value of the piece) make it fails as an investigation.