From Jason Colavito’s blog: “Nephilim of the Grand Canyon: Cross-Pollination in the Copy-Paste World of Fringe Archaeology.” Jason’s brief piece recounts new efforts to revive the 1909 Arizona Gazette Grand Canyon hoax about discovering...
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Another Questionable 19th Century Giant Story and Its Careless Use by Creationists
Hat tip to Edward Babinski and Jason Colavito for this piece. I’ve asked it before: Why do Christian “researchers” embrace highly suspect newspaper reports from the 19th and early 20th centuries so readily? The answer, of course, is to prop up a...
Textual References to Giants in Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Sources
Jason Colavito is doing all of us interested in the topic of giants a service with this page-in-progress on his website. It's got a good number of entries/examples already. Check it out!
Elongated Skulls: Not a Mystery
I wish I had a dollar for every TV show, website, or ancient alien enthusiast email that touts the bogus idea that elongated skulls are proof of either aliens, nephilim, or both. It’s utter nonsense. These enthusiasts regularly suggest and assume that mainstream...
Meso-American Giants and Codex Rios
Please be patient with the images loading. Several weeks ago I received an email with a YouTube URL about “legitimate” giants in ancient Mexico. I watched it and learned about Mexican “giants” called Quinametzin. The evidence offered in the...
Colavito, Hanks, and Giants: Some Interaction by Heiser
See how I cleverly included all three last names for better searching? You’ll understand that if you read Jason Colavito’s latest post on “gigantology”: Micah Hanks: The Hubris of Jason Colavito and Skeptics Over Giants Is “Worthy of...
On the Talmud and Giant Teeth
Jason Colavito has an interesting piece about “rows of teeth” and ancient giants supposedly supported by the Talmud. It’s really about a plagiarized reference, but giant fans (no World Series pun intended there) will find it interesting. I left a...
More Nephilim-Bigfoot-Mound Builder-Peruvian Cone-Heads Flim-Flam
This would all be discouraging were not Jason Colavito’s lengthy reviews of this stuff so entertaining. Both of these essays were posted this month. Annotations are mine. Creationist “Bigfoot” Veterinarian Wants Cash to Sequence Nephilim...
The Myth of the Smithsonian Archaeological Conspiracy
I’ve directed readers to Jason Colavito’s blog many times before, but I don’t believe I’ve included this specific essay: How David Childress Created the Myth of a Smithsonian Archaeological Conspiracy. Jason makes a good case for the modern...
The Paracas Elongated Skulls: More Boneheaded Nephilim Claims
If you’re interested in phony DNA research to prop up ancient alien hybrids and alleged nephilim skulls, you’re in luck. Two recent posts came to my attention today. They’re both long, but well worth the time. First, there’s the essay by Frank...
Giant Skeleton Hoaxes and Mis-Identifications
I’ve blogged several times about the pictures of giant human skeletons on the web that aren’t what they seem to be. They fall into two categories: hoaxes and mis-identification of the remains of either dinosaurs or (more often) mastodons or mammoths. I...
Review of Ancient Aliens’ Craptastic Anunnaki Episode
Jason Colavito has courageously reviewed the latest ode to asininity from the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series. I strongly encourage readers to check it out. It’s an informative and fun read. It’s a cornucopia of devastating logic. My favorite...
Sanctified Gullibility is Still Gullibility
It doesn’t get much more embarrassing than this. Jason Colavito has a short write up on how Christian apologists are using a prop — a giant human skeleton that isn’t a skeleton at all — from von Daniken’s ancient astronaut theme park for...
About Those Giants Hidden in the Smithsonian
Jason Colavito has a worthwhile post demonstrating the flawed thinking and resourcing of such claims (and they are quite common). But hey, I guess it sounds better than a giant prehistoric dog eating the evidence.
Discoveries of Giants and Giant Human Remains – Stretching the Truth or Just Tall Tales?
Jason Colavito has written some recent pieces on presumed discoveries of giant human specimens. Often such reports are simply not what they claim to be – evidence is misunderstood or even fabricated, or reports get garbled and transformed in transmission. Here...