Talk:Scared Straight!

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[edit] Original research

130.156.29.112 keeps trying to insert the following text:

Of course, it must be remembered that the program was the brainchild of a film maker, not a psychiatrist specializing in the rehabilitation of felons; therefore, the focus was on whatever theatrical value could be obtained by filming a group of hulking inmates scaring relatively young teenagers.

Phrases like "it must be remembered" are frequently a warning sign of original research. I do not think this paragraph is any exception. For all we know, Arnold Shapiro got the idea for Scared Straight! when a psychiatrist specializing in the rehabilitation of felons said to him "You know, if some of the young people who are in small-time trouble now could see just how brutal life in prison really is, it might scare them straight." Am I saying such a thing happened? No, but that's just the point: We do not have any reliable sources telling us whose "brainchild" the program was. We do not have any reliable sources telling us whether Shapiro consulted with professionals of the kind 130.156.29.112 tries to assert had no input into the production. We do not have any reliable sources telling us that Shapiro's "focus" was theatrical value and no other kind. In short, we have no reliable sources supporting 130.156.29.112's version of events, and we can hardly tell readers that they "must" remember what 130.156.29.112 is only guessing to be the case. -- 209.6.177.176 (talk) 05:14, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

130.156.31.148/130.156.31.112/130.156.31.182, you keep accusing others of bad faith but the fact is that they have given reasons why the passage should not be there; you by contrast have ignored the talk page completely. -- 209.6.177.176 (talk) 00:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)