The well-known scholarly publisher, Brill, recently released notice of a new article about Dead Sea Scroll forgeries. From their website: The findings of false fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been all over the media  recently: collectors have purchased modern...
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Giant Human Mummy Fakery
The Strange Remains blog recently published a worthwhile post on the fakery of giant (and otherwise) human remains in the 19th century. I recommend it. Folks who are into newspaper reports of giants in North America are often ignorant of the fact (or just don’t...
The Racism Behind Ancient Alien Mummy Hoaxes
Yep. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When ancient alien theorists (or Christian North American nephilim “race” theorists) insist those are the explanations for impressive engineering and architectural work (think Nazca lines,...
On Mathematical Codes for the Great Pyramid and other Megalithic Structures
I’ll be honest. I’m among those of you (and there are a lot of us) who’d think of themselves as “math-challenged.” That makes me vulnerable to being impressed by people who do amazing things with numbers and then attribute meaning to the...
UFO Hoaxing Round-Up
I recently found an article on how the recent YouTube Ad / Monetization policies have rocked the “Secure Team 10” UFO Hoax site and came across a list of “related links” that was too interesting to pass up. Seems the UFO Hoaxing community (and...
This is What Encourages “Truth by Anomaly and Outlier” Thinking
I’ve blogged about the problem of how the peer review process in the sciences has been compromised by laziness and money. Here we go again:Â “Sting Operation Reveals Science’s Insane Fake News Problem.” As the article’s author notes by way...
The Story Behind the Jesus’ Wife Fragment Fraud
Update: 6/16/2016 – Karen King does the right thing in her response to the essay below, owns her mistake.] Jim West directs our attention to (in his words) “this damning essay” in The Atlantic that “sheds light on the fraud perpetrated on...
More Grand Canyon Nephilim Hoaxing
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...
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...
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...