Forbidden History

I would give 0/10 if there was that option! If you are going to show a programme about the most analysed religious artefact ever studied then you need to give both sides of the argument and not just the opinions of atheists who obviously know nothing at all about this relic. There was one brief interview with a scientist who believed it genuine, but the rest of the people who spoke on the programme were laughable in their ignorance, especially the woman author (whose name escapes me) who maintains the relic was produced by Leonardo de Vinci. Even the flawed carbon dating done in 1988, dated it before he was even born! No mention of the pollen analysed which showed it came from the Holy Land and the fact that the piece of the relic sent for carbon dating had been repaired in the middle ages after a fire. After watching that one episode I would never watch anything so ridiculous again.

A series largely based on the speculations of so-called 'experts' who have no qualifications in their fields.

Given a choice of three possible explanations of anything, the programme will always choose the one with the least hard evidence to back it up.

Don't waste your time watching this rubbish.

Pseudo-historic, non-scientific sensationalist garbage where non-experts, non-intellectual spew their garbage. Most of the times I avoid them but just today I decided to give them a chance because there was a topic about a famous German executioner Johann Reichhart, a person with an interesting story I was familiar with. I expected the episode to be over the top, wild, sensationalist and so I prepare myself to endure some stupid statements. But...I couldn't force myself to watch this for more than five minutes. Right from the start, they wanted to present this man as one of the worst monsters that ever lived, they instantly switched to Hitler's era and let mostly average but disturbingly uneducated people to drag on with their wild claims and stupid ideas about how life in Germany was during that time (who cares?. I stopped watching after a woman with bellow-average intelligence started making one irrelevant and silly statement after another with no end in sight. If Hitler's isn't involved, then it isn't interesting, right? 1 star for demonizing a man who had the most unpleasant job ever during a time where such a job was normal (in most of the world) and the method of execution the most humane option available. He didn't deserve it.

I've watched some of the episodes and fact checked them. Interesting story line, facts need to be checked. I like the enforcer/critic rolls, however, the research is incomplete, thus making what they state as fact, actually wrong in many ways. I encourage fact checking. Not even in the least, entertaining. While new information is coming to surface every day, if they are going to claim a fact of which falls under "common knowledge", at least get that right. It seems that they want to look like fools. To make a suggestion to them, fact check. I've always had to use multiple sources, do they? I'd love to pick on each episode individually, however, I'd be writing books, creating a redundancy of what is already readably available. Fact check. I'd give it a 0 out of 10 except that it is a conversation starter, and a bad one at that.

Love this show..and its History. Would love to be on this show. New Mexico-Native American.