One of my favorite blogs is The Emoluments of Mars. It’s the brainchild of “Expat,” who has committed himself to the mind-numbing task of critiquing the conspiratorial pseudo-science behind ideas like the “face” on Mars, glass domes on...
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Sachs, Velikovsky, and Sitchin
A short time ago I blogged about the work of C. Leroy Ellenberger, at one time a first-tier defender of Immanuel Velikovsky who later came to doubt and then refute that brand of catastrophism, sent me a link I thought I’d share with readers. Leroy’s link...
How Research Reaches the Public and PaleoBabble is Born
Robert Cargill posted this today on his blog. It’s funny because we’ve all seen it happen, again and again. Although the creators forgot to include the Fantasy Channel (formerly known as the History Channel).
Did the Chinese Discover America?
It shouldn’t surprise you that PaleoBabble doesn’t let political correctness get in the way of scholarship. Some readers may recall the furor a few years ago caused by the announcement that someone had produced a hands down case that the Chinese really...
Prepping For More Dan Brown Nonsense About Solomon’s Temple
I’m sure we’ve all heard the earth-shattering news by now, that Dan Brown’s sequel to The DaVinci Code (hereafter DVC) is due out on September 15. I’m relieved that he got it to us before 2012. Brown’s sequel is now entitled, The Lost...
Pseudo-History in the Classroom
This is the title of another old article I found prepping for teaching. It was written in 1975 -- amazing how much PaleoBabble has been put out since then! Editor's note: Excerpt from the article below: ARE WE descendants of ancient astronauts? Was the flaming...
Gnostic Archons = Aliens? Part 3 (of 3) on John Lamb Lash’s Theory
Here’s the second video on Lash’s theory. As you may recall, in the first video (Part 2 of this series), I searched for terms Lash uses (embryonic, reptilian, fetal, etc.) to claim that the Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi describe the “Greys”...
Gnostic Archons = Aliens? Part 2 on John Lamb Lash’s Theory
It’s been a while since I started the John Lamb Lash “Gnostic Archons = Aliens” thread. With so much PaleoBabble out there, you can get sidetracked. At any rate, in my first post on this topic, I quoted John Lamb Lash’s online article on this...