I came across some older stuff on Carl Baugh this evening and was startled to discover that, after 300+ posts on this blog, I'd never blogged anything about him. Time to fix that. Carl Baugh is the young earth creationist who claimed to have discovered human...
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BioStation Alpha: Amateur Astronomer Discovers Artificial Structure on Mars?
[[UPDATE: There's now a fifth alternative interpretation -- one not listed below. Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona, postulates that, "It looks like a linear streak artifact produced by a cosmic ray,"...
$imcha Jacobovici Nailed Again
Pardon the pun. This time archaeologist Joe Zias puts it to Jacobovici regarding his "discovery" of the nails of Jesus' cross in the Talpiot tomb. Hope this hurts $imcha's bank account a bit.
Lead Codices to Be Tested
Todd Bolen reports today that the lead codices already widely considered to be fraudulent will be undergoing testing by antiquities authorities. For those of you just getting up to speed on this, here's a link to an overview of the reasons they are considered fakes. I...
Nailing $imcha Jacobovici
A few more posts by scholars still engaged with Simcha Jacobovici. Talk about shooting fish in a barrel. Here's one more from Mark Goodacre, who discusses the non-extant textual material that $imcha uses to build his vacuous argument. And then Todd Bolen reports on...
Thorn from Jesus' Crown on Display at the British Museum
I guess they're using the rest of the thorns collected by medieval relic-hoarders to built a replica of Noah's ark in Kentucky. Oh, wait -- I got the thorn mixed up with pieces from the cross. At least this piece of paleo-nonsense involved a journalist who has grown...
Lead Codices: It's Looking Like a Hoax
Dr. Jim Davila over at PaleoJudaica as this post this morning on the codices. The post features a short, to-the-point, evidence-based analysis by professor Peter Thonemann, of some of the pages of the codices, noting inconsistencies in the story and, more importantly,...
Is the Idea of Man-Made UFOs a Myth? Part 3
This is my third and final response to the UFO Iconoclast post opposed to the idea of man-made UFOs. (See Part 1 and Part 2). I just finished the new book by Vallee and Aubeck and will be writing a lengthy review of it. My responses are at "MSH" and blocked off. I...
The Cardiff Giant Hoax
Editor's note: broken link removed. Many of you have no doubt heard of the Cardiff giant -- supposedly a genuine fossilized human giant discovered in 1869. Despite the conclusive evidence for a hoax, one can still find pictures of the giant on obscure websites where...
Is the Idea of Man-Made UFOs a Myth? Part 2
A couple of weeks ago I posted Part 1 of my response to an essay on the UFO Iconoclast blog entitled, The Myth of Man-Made Flying Saucers. That essay listed seven operational and design characteristics of some UFOs that, for the essay writers, defied the notion that...
Addendum to My Previous Man-Made UFO Post
An alert reader (kudos to Keith) brought yet another alternative possibility to mind with respect to how a "shape shifting" UFO need not be alien technology. He cited the following from W. A. Harbinson's important book, Projekt Saucer: The fuselage of the experimental...
Is the Idea of Man-Made UFOs a Myth? Part 1
About a month ago the UFO Iconoclast blog posted an important essay entitled, "The Myth of Man-Made Flying Saucers." I've said before on this blog that the UFO Iconoclasts put out a lot of material that's worth your time. This essay is no exception. The essay begins...
Majestic Document Eisenhower Briefing a Hoax
Interesting post from Kevin Randle on his blog today. No surprise, of course, Three years ago I had a number of the Majestic documents tested by a linguist whose expertise was authorship attribution and found the same thing. That was the occasion that caused Stanton...
Clay Figurines of Real Dinosaurs with Humans?
I was reminded of the (in)famous Acambaro (Mexico) clay dinosaurs this weekend by a list of famous archaeological hoaxes / conundrums sent to me. In case you had not heard of these before (see pictures below), you can get a nice overview on Wikipedia. Unfortunately,...
Some Chips in the Lolladoff Plate
Most readers have probably not heard of the Lolladoff Plate. It's for serving paleobabble (note the image of the alien on it). Supposedly it's 1200 years old. Here's a picture: I recently came across a couple of good critique of the plate that succeeds in sending it...