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=== Amelia Earhart documentary controversy === {{Main|Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence}} In 2017, a History Channel documentary, ''[[Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence]]'', proposed that a photograph in the National Archives of [[Jaluit Atoll]] in the [[Marshall Islands]] was actually a picture of a captured [[Amelia Earhart]] and [[Fred Noonan]]. The picture showed a Caucasian male on a dock who appeared to look like Noonan and a woman sitting on the dock, but facing away from the camera, who was judged to have a physique and haircut resembling Earhart's. The documentary theorizes that the photo was taken after Earhart and Noonan crashed at [[Mili Atoll]]. The documentary also said that physical evidence recovered from Mili matches pieces that could have fallen off an Electra during a crash or subsequent overland move to a barge. ''The Lost Evidence'' proposed that a Japanese ship seen in the photograph was the ''Koshu Maru'', a Japanese military ship. ''The Lost Evidence'' was soon discredited after Japanese blogger Kota Yamano found the original source of the photograph in the archives in the [[National Diet Library]] Digital Collection.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd/| title=Amelia Earhart 'Lost Photograph' Discredited| last=Greshko| first=Michael| website=nationalgeographic.com| date=July 11, 2017| access-date=August 14, 2018|url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223131301/https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd/| archive-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref> The original source of the photo was a Japanese travel guide published in October 1935, implying that the photograph was taken in 1935 or before, thus it would be unrelated to Earhart and Noonan's 1937 disappearance. Additionally, the researcher who discovered the photo also identified the ship in the right of the photo as another ship called ''[[KΕshΕ« (survey ship)|Koshu]]'' seized by [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] Japanese forces in World War I and not the ''Koshu Maru''.<ref name="nprdebunk">{{cite news|last1=Domonoske|first1=Camila|title=Japanese Blogger Points Out Timeline Flaw In Supposed Earhart Photo|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/11/536620463/japanese-blogger-points-out-timeline-flaw-in-supposed-earhart-photo|access-date=July 11, 2017|publisher=NPR|language=en|archive-date=July 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711162559/http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/11/536620463/japanese-blogger-points-out-timeline-flaw-in-supposed-earhart-photo|url-status=live}}</ref> Researcher [[Ben Radford]] performed a detailed analysis of the mistakes made by ''The History Channel'' in building their documentary on bad photographic evidence. In his ''[[Skeptical Inquirer]]'' article "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Emmys: An Amelia Earhart Special (Non) Mystery Post-Mortem", critiquing the network's lack of professionalism, Radford said: "Given that the photograph's provenance was established and thus the key premise of the show discredited in about half an hour of Google searching, it will be interesting to see what world class expertise... the History Channel will bring to their reinvestigation of Earhart's disappearance."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Radford|first1=Ben|author-link1=Benjamin Radford|title=A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Emmys: An Amelia Earhart Special (Non)Mystery Post-Mortem|url=https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/an_amelia_earhart_special_mystery |website=Csicop.org|publisher=CFI|access-date=December 9, 2017|archive-date=December 9, 2017|date=July 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209222238/https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/an_amelia_earhart_special_mystery|url-status=live}}</ref> On episode 82 of his ''Squaring the Strange'' podcast, released January 4, 2019, Radford reminded listeners that in excess of 18 months had passed without an apology or explanation from the History Channel as to "how their research went so horribly wrong."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Radford |first1=Ben |author-link=Ben Radford |title=Episode 82 - Grab Bag 2018 |url=http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/8129540/tdest_id/607796 |publisher=Libsyn |access-date=January 12, 2019 |archive-date=February 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207072548/https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/8129540/tdest_id/607796 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="csicop-robpalmer">{{cite web |last1=Palmer |first1=Rob |title=Squaring the Skeptic with Celestia Ward (Part 2) |url=https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/squaring_the_skeptic_with_celestia_ward_part_2 |website=Skeptical Inquirer |date=January 25, 2019 |publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |access-date=February 5, 2019 |archive-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129032708/https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/squaring_the_skeptic_with_celestia_ward_part_2 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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