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Science on TV: Why You Don’t Want House to Give You an MRI Exam

December 10, 2008 in Science

Like all good Americans I do my part by trying to watch as much TV as I can. Part of the fun is to then complain about it with your friends, except those (invariably Canadian) ones that love to tell you that they don’t own a TV and instead only listen to NPR. Today’s subject is the FOX drama House, which tends to be tremendously entertaining as long as you can get past Hugh Laurie‘s American accent and you ignore the so-called character development.

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