In another excellent piece on the UFO Trail blog, Jack Brewer takes the issue of the use of hypnosis in alien abduction research head-on. The post is another example of why, if you care about thinking clearly about matters ufological, you should be reading his blog. A...
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Jason Colavito on the Serial Self-Plagiarism of David Hatcher Childress
Jason Colavito has been slogging through some of "research" of ancient astronaut enthusiast David Hatcher Childress with the goal toward demonstrating how Childress has gamed his gullible audience by re-publishing his own material for a quick buck. A nice system for...
Easter Island, Gobekli Tepe, and Robert Schoch
Kudos are once again in order for Jason Colavito's seemingly boundless enthusiasm for exposing poor thinking (having a PhD doesn't mean someone thinks well ... boy could I tell stories). Anyway, Jason recently wrote the two essays that follow. They are in regard to...
Jason Colavito Blogging Through Erich von Daniken’s Latest Testament to Ancient Astronaut Nonsense
Someone should give Jason a medal. He's actually six chapters into his review. You can read the series here: Reviewing EVD's "Twilight of the Gods" (Pt. 1) Reviewing EVD's "Twilight of the Gods" (Pt. 2) Reviewing EVD's "Twilight of the Gods" (Pt. 3) Reviewing EVD's...
A Case of Credential Envy?
I just read a short but telling post by Jason Colavito on the blog that bears his name entitled, "The Dubious Authorial Accomplishments of Gorgio Tsoukalos." Gorgio is the star of the cinematic tribute to non sequitur thinking known as Ancient Aliens. Jason examines...
The Sad Case of Carl Baugh
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...
The Bible Code – Hidden Encryption or Outright Myth?
My money is on the latter. Take a look at a recent FringePop321 video for why: You can also see how the Dead Sea Scrolls undermines the whole premise of equidistant letter sequencing here. The Bible Code is dead on arrival.
RH Negative Blood: Alien-Nephilim-Hybrid Nonsense
A couple months ago my PEERANORMAL Podcast focused on this modern myth. Here's a pretty thorough-but-readable essay on the RH nephilim silliness. It's very informative. I guess at a time when people are willing to believe the earth is actually flat and all ISS / NASA...
Elongated Skulls: Professional vs. Amateur Research
Below are three informative essays on elongated skulls that anyone interested in the topic should read. They are informative because they provide a good survey (and sources in the notes) of the sort of research professionals conduct on these skulls, and because they...
Elongated Skulls and Christian Ethics
Those of you with an interest in the elongated skull paleobabble (that they have something to do with aliens or nephilim) will find this short essay of interest. It's from the Hot Cup of Joe blog. It's basically an overview of the methodological problems of the...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Mike Bara: An Explanatory Illustration
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 the moon, and esoteric meanings...
The Science and Pseudo-Science of Extraterrestrial Communication
That's the gist of this interesting and informative episode of Exposing PseudoAstronomy. Here's the episode's abstract: Linguist, Dr. Karen Stollznow, discusses some of the communication problems on our own planet and how that translates to the huge potential...
Ancient Aliens Researcher Calls the Show’s Content “Absurdity” and Her Job “Ridiculous”
No kidding. I encourage readers to read this post by Jason Colavito, which chronicles the admissions. If this is news to you, here's another news flash: pro wrestling outcomes are scripted. At least someone associated with the Ancient Aliens bunkum can be honest about...
The Paracas Elongated Skulls: More Boneheaded Nephilim Claims
If you're interested in phony DNA research to prop up ancient alien hybrids and alleged nephilim skulls, you're in luck. Two recent posts came to my attention today. They're both long, but well worth the time. First, there's the essay by Frank Johnson at the Ancient...
The Starchild Skull and Its DNA Testing: No Proof of an Alien Hybrid
Frank Johnson of the Ancient Aliens Debunked (AAD) blog recently posted this lengthy essay concerning alleged DNA evidence that the Starchild Skull was that of a human-alien hybrid child: "A Bone to Pick with the Starchild Skull." It's well worth the read, and you...