Back in June 2017 I blogged about the newest hoax by serial hoaxer Jaime Maussan -- the "discovery" of three-fingered alien mummies in Peru. Maussan of course was one of the people behind the ridiculous Roswell slides. I suggested at the time the same hoaxing...
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H2 Serves the Public with More Ancient Astronaut Racism
All who have read The Portent, the sequel to my novel, The Facade, know that one of the research threads in the sequel is the inherently racist nature of ancient astronaut theory -- that is, it articulates the idea that the white European race (and even more narrowly...
Nibiru and Planet X – Are We In For A Surprise?
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Jaime Maussan Is At It Again: Three-Fingered “Alien Mummy” Claim
Many readers will have seen the slick video report about an alleged "new species" mummy found in Peru. This is a well-done video by Gaia TV, sure to appeal to the gullible. Lots of folks with white masks saying sciencey things (i.e., speculating with big words). Some...
Biblical Giants and Dinosaur Bones
Aeneas asked a question in a comment to an earlier post about the faked giant human skeleton: I'd like you to comment on the dinosaur bones angle as well. It is certainly not an unreasonable theory for all the stories of giants in the past, including the Bible. I lean...
Ancient Aliens Logic Lesson: Dirt Isn’t “Civilization”
I've had some folks send me the link to this recent article: "Data From a Dead Satellite Reveals Lost Continents Under Antarctica." This is followed by the breathless proclamation: "These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood...
The Atacama (Non) Alien Back in the News: Peer-Reviewed Research Demonstrates Its Human
Remember the Atacama "alien" that was the centerpiece of a Steven Greer film? Well, the important peer-reviewed journal Genome Research published the following article on the specimen today. Bhattacharya S, Li J, Sockell A, Kan M, Bava F, Chen, S, Ávila-Arcos M, Ji X,...
Paracas Skull Groundhog Day
This past Friday, Feb 2, Lynn Marzulli's second round on Paracas skull DNA was revealed to a pay-per-view audience. The Groundhog Day timing was appropriate. We've seen this before. I'd love to say "good job; thanks for doing the hard work on this." But I can't. This...
Genetic Mythologies: “Nephilim DNA” from the Paracas skulls
The title of this post corresponds to an excellent post by Dr. Jennifer Raff on her personal blog. Dr. Raff is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, and director and principal investigator at the University of Kansas laboratory of human...
Another Ancient Alien Fail: Moving 300 Ton Stones to Build China’s Forbidden City
The Live Science blog reported recently that Jiang Li, an engineer at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, has successfully translated an ancient Chinese document that reveals how stones in excess of 300 tons were moved over 70 miles without the wheel to...
Another Giant Human Skeleton That Isn't
I've blogged before about giant human skeletons that aren't giant human skeletons. The first two examples I blogged about were hoaxes, created with image editing software (see here and here). The Remnant of the Giants blog recently had an interesting post about a...
2012 Mythology for Dummies
A nice explanation of where all the 2012 silliness comes from. Editor's note: as outdated at this post is, it's a good exercise in seeing how people will see patterns and get married to a view of eschatology and end times and prophecy.
Charges of Racism Related to the Atacama (Non) Alien
The Atlantic just published this interesting short article on the Atacama "alien" -- a subject I have blogged about several times: "The Controversial Study of a Girl Who Ufologists Called ‘Alien’." As to the racism element, you can read the article -- the short...
Pluto Fly-By Conspiracies: More Pseudo-Science
The fly-by photographs taken of Pluto as part of NASA's New Horizons mission to gather data on Pluto have been all the rage on the internet. Naturally, not everything has gone as expected; there have been technical glitches. Equally as normative, voices on the...
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 "Giant" DNA Readers will...