Scooby-Doo, How Could You? The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) laments the transformation of the Scooby-Doo crew from skeptical debunking to credulity. The writer is “stunned, shocked and appalled” as a new episode of the show actually portrays paranormal events as real!

No longer do the intrepid investigators
prove that the paranormal is all a ruse. In their latest
incarnation, Daphne is now a TV reporter for an
Entertainment Tonight-type show. She goes to New Orleans to look into reported
hauntings, bringing her old friends along. She and the other members are once
again beset by a ghost of a pirate, as well as assorted zombies, werewolves and
vampires. But this time, when Fred and Velma present possible rational
explanations for the weird events, they are pooh-poohed by Daphne, who goes so
far as to tell Fred “you’re not a skeptic, you’re in denial.” When Velma suggests
that these horrifying apparitions are really humans behind masks, she is ridiculed.
Obviously the new storywriters are parodying the show’s past, but at what
expense? At the end, we see that there really are ghosts, zombies, werewolves
and vampires running amok. It’s all such a sad betrayal of the original show’s
glorious skeptical tradition.