The George Adamski story is one of the most famous contactee cases in UFO lore. Chances are good that if you’re over 40 you’ve seen his photographic “evidence” on the tabloid impulse shelf while checking out at the grocery store. Here’s...
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Those Alleged Human Footprints Mixed with Dinosaur Tracks in Paluxy, TX
I came across this well written essay today on the Paluxy River foot prints. For those who’ve never heard of them, the site purportedly shows evidence (via co-mingled foot prints and dinosaur tracks) that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time....
Music on the Moon from Aliens?
Not surprisingly, no. Expat over at the Emoluments of Mars blog does the investigative work alien conspiracists just won’t do. The post reproduces an assessment by James Concannon among other items. Have a look — a very normal explanation.
Graham Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods: A Review
I encourage all of you to read Jason Colavito’s lengthy review of Hancock’s latest tome devoted to alternative history. But if you want the short version, Colavito offers this summary thought: Speaking as someone who found Fingerprints of the Gods to be...
A Blow to Racist Fringe History
Jason Colavito has an interesting post on some recent research that damages the Solutrean Hypothesis. For those who haven’t heard of this, Jason explains: Fringe history believers have long used the Solutrean claim as evidence for European primacy in the...
The Map Behind the Piri Reis Map
That’s the title of this intriguing essay on the Piri Reis map — an early 16th century map that allegedly shows the coastline of Antarctica not covered by ice. The image above of the Piri Reis map comes from this much longer and more detailed analysis, the...
BBC Wants to be Even Less Worth Watching than American Main Stream Media – Hosts Debate Over Whether Jesus and Buddha Were Space Aliens
Jason Colavito has a short summary of this intellectual fiasco (on all sides, really). Just more insanity from mainstream media. It’s hard to believe what actually passes for “serious” television these days. I guess the BBC is jealous of the way the...
Martian Habitrails?
Anyone remember habitrails? They were those cool plastic tubes you could join together in vertical and horizontal “tracks” for pet hamsters and gerbils. I had a set as a kid. My hamster loved them. Unfortunately, they weren’t cat proof. A childhood...
Dr. Gary Nolan on the Atacama Specimen and the Starchild Skull
Jack Brewer has posted a recent email exchange with Dr. Gary Nolan, the Stanford scientist who conducted the DNA work on the alleged “Atacama alien.” It’s readable and interesting, and so I recommend it to my readers. Some key statements by Dr....
Alien Bases on the Moon? Nope.
I’ve been getting emails about these “structures” on the moon. As you can see, the image is courtesy of NASA and Google Earth software. It comes from the second link noted below. Sorry, folks, these are not artificial structures. There is no alien...
PaleoBabble Logic: A Fun Non Sequitur Illustration
A non sequitur is a conclusion that does not follow from the data considered. PaleoBabble research is riddled with them. One of the more frequent flaws in thinking that produce non sequiturs is the confusion of correlation and causation: just because two things...
Mars, the Moon, Planet X, and Wacky ET Theories: Exposing Pseudo-Astronomy
I’ve occasionally blogged about Stuart Robbins’ podcast, Exposing PseudoAstronomy. Stuart has invited me for an interview. It will take place in November, but I’ll let you all know when he actually posts it. Stuart has done excellent (and...
What To Do With Christian UFO Researchers Who Ape Ancient Astronaut Thinking
[Addendum: 10/22/2013Â – I have been in correspondence with one of the researchers mentioned in Jason Colavito’s post. That individual tells me that research is underway in regard to some of the claims Jason criticized, and that I will receive a copy of the...
Review of Candida Moss’s Book, The Myth of Persecution
A book of this nature is a bit tangential to what I normally do on this blog, but this book has gotten a lot of recent attention. In fact, it’s own history is a good object lesson. When Moss’s book was published months ago, the popular media picked up on...
Peer Review: The Kryptonite of PaleoBabblers
I’ve blogged before here about the importance of peer review. I came across these thoughts by another scholar (and friend; Dr. Larry Hurtado) on its crucial role for sifting nonsense. Hurtado is a seasoned NT scholar and has been on both sides of the process....