I had a great science teacher from 7th through 9th grades. He was smart, interesting, and had a knack for teaching. When Chariots of the Gods came out (1968), it was all the talk in our small school. Our teacher took the opportunity to debunk everything in it with simple experiments. His point was that primitive peoples may not have had the technology we have, but they weren't stupid. He used wooden stakes and fire to split sandstone, he used other stones to polish it. There was an idea that the Great Pyramids were somehow laid out according to PI..so he took a tire, strapped a wedge to it and had us roll it down the sides of the football field and across and back...he then showed us by using the indentations in the field as your corners...you got sides that mathematically lined up with PI. He taught us the scientific method very early, he talked to us like we were adults. In another experiment he had about five of us, using just 4x4 inch levers, move a very large stone all over a field. Once we got the hang of it, moving that stone was easy. I was so lucky to have really great teachers. Something I've noticed about people expounding on silly ideas is they throw out non-existent science as though it's a known truth, they talk fast and never give you a chance to respond, they use half-truths mixed with facts, and they jump to conclusions with the least real data available.
@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer
6 ай бұрын
👍
@azuredystopia3751
6 ай бұрын
Le Gish Gallop: a scourge.
@Leeside999
6 ай бұрын
Sounds like a really cool teacher.
@revolutionaryhamburger
6 ай бұрын
It's so much easier and more believable for the popular teacher to sit back and simply say, "It was all space aliens." You don't even have to go outside.
@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer
6 ай бұрын
That's probably what Graham Hancock's teacher said. 😜@@revolutionaryhamburger
@Kholdaimon
6 ай бұрын
As someone that worked on evolutionary biology I would like to add that when biologists see two organisms with a similar feature our first assumption is not that they are related. We have seen enough cases of convergent evolution to realize that most of the time it means they perform a similar action and this feature is the best way to perform such action. Features that signal a relation between 2 different species to a evolutionary biologist are silly things that aren't apparent at first glance, like the shape of certain bones in the skull or the angle of certain pelvic bones. These are often changes that indicate a species diverging from an ancestor and creating a new family of species that all share this trait and thus show a related ancestry. Which is much like archaeological research, a pyramid is just the easiest way to build a big structure, so the fact different, unrelated civilizations adopted the shape is expected, but relation is shown in little things, like evolution of language, timing of adopting certain technological advances or similar mythologies.
@kevinmurphy65
6 ай бұрын
Such a cool field of study! Bet there are things known inside your field that would really be fascinating to investigate. My first real intro was thru my Mother (a Psychologist) and saw first hand the impact on Science and Society after watching Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. A comment by many of the reporters during this trial was a lot of the science they were learning about, they were learning for the first time, which is sad.
@Kholdaimon
6 ай бұрын
@@kevinmurphy65 I went to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington while on vacation in the US and me and my wife (a medical biologists) felt the exhibit on evolution had a lot of parts that we worded quite badly. It seemed to imply a directionality or intent behind evolution. Evolutionary theory is actually a really simple concept to understand, but, in my opinion, not explained well by most science communicators. I don't know whether I would be able to do a better job, but almost every time I see a video attempting it I cringe at some of the words used or the simplifications attempted that just end up not teaching people how the evolutionary process really operates...
@magusmelanie828
6 ай бұрын
We're all destined to become crabs 🥴
@shimrrashai-rc8fq
6 ай бұрын
Also smaller motifs, like specific forms of the top of columns or the shape of a pyramid than the fact of "a pyramid" itself, e.g. the Mayan pyramids have a distinctive style beyond simply being "pyramidal" like the staggering, top temples, and stairs up the sides. A pyramid, itself, is literally just a man-made mountain. That's all you need to know to understand why they are/were built. Both structurally and in terms of inspiration.
@adamseward4713
6 ай бұрын
Yeah. I think that we do not all come from the same chemical reaction that could reproduce itself. That was a big ocean.
@87eargasm
6 ай бұрын
"tools don't make artefacts, people do" - very well put, David
@kamion53
6 ай бұрын
I am sure I am not the only who was convinged that buying more tools would make me a better handiman.
@richardjohnson8009
6 ай бұрын
So if i give a cnc controlled laser cutting tool to a chinese person, will they be able to produce precision parts?
@merryfergie
6 ай бұрын
This applies to computer engineering. Ai was developed by humans
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
6 ай бұрын
graham hancock is the biggest fraud! but he doesnt bother with fake evidence he just makes absurd claims!
@jonfox8010
6 ай бұрын
Guns don't kill people, people do. Put another way, if a person doesn't have a gun, then he can't shoot anyone. This revolutionary idea has yet to permeate the 'Murican mindset of course.
@Skaldewolf
6 ай бұрын
Regarding precisionism: A machinist should be familiar with a certain artifact known as a surface plate. A slab of rock with a perfectly flat surface. I'm talking down to a few micrometers of flatness. These are made with nothing more than a few reasonably square pieces of stone, coloured paste and grit. You can do this at home if you want with no more tools or gauges than your hands and eyes.
@chomsky3000
6 ай бұрын
Quite profound!
@BaronVonQuiply
6 ай бұрын
20:22 I heard _"The use of meth makes it look like something scientific and objective"_ and while I know I'm wrong, I'm also right.
@kevinmurphy65
6 ай бұрын
LOL ok glad I was not drinking milk when reading your comment!
@DavidScott-oq9yp
6 ай бұрын
Also makes you want to spend hours taking it apart to see how it works, because it's just that super-interesting.
@almishti
6 ай бұрын
like the tweaker i met very late one night in Berkeley who got all excited when he saw me carrying a small coffee table (long story) and I had to put it down while he rummaged thru his box of tweaker treasures. He pulled out a recently-dead blackbird, a carnelian flower, several exploded pens (that he tried to use to write notes in his notebook but none of them worked and he got ink all over his hands) and a few old radio parts and computer boards. He put them all on my table and was very intently trying to assemble them into a bio-techno thing that would do *something* remarkable I'm sure but he got frustrated that he couldn't record the procedure in his notebook so in the end he just started stabbing the dead blackbird with one of his dead pens. This might have been part of the procedure, I wasn't sure. He was very scientific about it all.
@olorin4317
6 ай бұрын
My baby nephew likes to make pyramids with his blocks, so clearly, my sister hooked up with a time traveling Atlantean.
@greenamber9827
6 ай бұрын
I don't remember preschool well, but I do remember playing with blocks.
@perceivedvelocity9914
6 ай бұрын
That would be the only logical conclusion.
@seraph.1
6 ай бұрын
Great comment ❤
@TGBurgerGaming
6 ай бұрын
My wife had one of those kids, divorced her immediately. Crazy witch even tried to make ME pay child support.
@letyvasquez2025
6 ай бұрын
When your nephew starts playing hide n seek and you can’t find him anywhere. Just know that he used the pyramid shape as the key for opening Atlantis.
@leemarlin9415
6 ай бұрын
A personal thought: I find it interesting that people have such a hard time believing multiple groups of people can come up with the same solution without contact and exchange of information. No matter where you’re born or what time you were born we all come into the world with the same tool kit. Two arms, two legs, a brain, strong back and a curiosity. So why is it so unreasonable to think we would find similar solutions to the same problem.?
@julietfischer5056
6 ай бұрын
Similar materials and needs tend towards similar solutions. Once we get past simple things (basic tools, pottery, baskets, etc), the differences usually show up in the details of construction or function.
@jasongarcia2140
6 ай бұрын
It's not unreasonable. These outlandish ideas ie. Advanced ancient technology are just ideas.
@dnocturn84
6 ай бұрын
And it's not just us humans. It also heavily depends on the subject and our environment. There are only so many variations, on how to make a fire or on how to make a container to store liquids. No wonder people all over the world developed similar concepts.
@PeachysMom
6 ай бұрын
@@jasongarcia2140they’re dumb ideas.
@iqweaver
6 ай бұрын
Give a toddler some building blocks and they will come up with some form of step pyramind.
@johnheckles8239
6 ай бұрын
If not for channels like yours I’d still be watching “Woo” channels and believing the likes of Hancock.. So Thankyou for putting me on the right path 👍🏻
@leftyme4568
6 ай бұрын
You don`t have to believe everything, but just listen to the ideas. I bet you that not everything he says is untrue. And his theories makes people think. Many people have been mocked through the centuries on their theories that turned out to be true. Remember when the eaarth was flat?
@jasongarcia2140
6 ай бұрын
@@Catdad76801why? Isn't he just proposing ideas? I mean he states himself that he is not a scientist. Archeology needs forensic science.
@AlbertaGeek
6 ай бұрын
@@jasongarcia2140 _"Archeology needs forensic science"_ Exactly how do you believe archaeology works?
@AlbertaGeek
6 ай бұрын
@@jasongarcia2140 _"Isn't he just proposing ideas?"_ No, he is not "just' doing that. His business model depends on selling the image of himself as a brave crusader against a conspiracy of mainstream academia, and to that end he deliberately misrepresents finds and denigrates work already done.
@Aironeness
6 ай бұрын
Why has everyone turned on Hancock, he always stated he’s not sold on any 1 idea and that proof has not yet been provided and or certain. New discoveries are made yearly that contradict many mainstream theories. That’s all these things are theories. We can’t be so rigid in our thinking, that’s so arrogant to believe we have everything figured out, on history that happened so long ago with little evidences recorded
@angelocatani1800
6 ай бұрын
Unfortunately for every channel like yours that actually put people on the right path to understanding the past there are what seems a thousand pseudo sites espousing inaccuracies. Thank you for addressing the fallacies. Totally dig your site.
@spiritualanarchist8162
6 ай бұрын
It's a plague. I guess because Atlantis/Aliens are cool and easy concept to believe in. The mind goes : ' Pyramid over here. Pyramid over there. must be same people behind it ...Duh. And now they can fantasize about all kinds of cool ideas, instead of reading and studying all these boring books with annoying facts.
@jeffstrom164
6 ай бұрын
Funny you should say that when he is pushing a fallacy himself. His definition of civilization is wrong, making his statement, that civilization isn't inevitable, false. By the definition of civilization, not only is it inevitable, humanity has never existed without it.
@spiritualanarchist8162
6 ай бұрын
@@jeffstrom164 That depends on what you mean with civilisatie. Do yo call (for example) Nomadic tribes made up by by a small number of families a civilization ?
@jeffstrom164
6 ай бұрын
@spiritualanarchist8162 by the definition of civilization, yes. That is civilization. Civilization has no numerical requirement. It's not a binary. Its a scale involving many different things, none of which are required individually.
@spiritualanarchist8162
6 ай бұрын
@@jeffstrom164 What I mean is that ,there are (atleast) two ways to use the word civilization . One . The customs , traditions a group of people have , can be called 'their civilization ' Or civilization can be used for : an advanced state of human society in with a high level of culture, science, industry, and government .
@JonMartinYXD
6 ай бұрын
One thing that this video just touches on a few times is that the human brain is a pattern matching machine. Our brains are phenomenally good at finding patterns and are constantly looking for patterns. This is very useful but also has a big downside: false positives. Our brains are so eager to find patterns that we will find patterns and create meaning out of mere coincidence. Being the social creatures we are, the pattern we are looking for the most is human faces. This is one reason we anthropomorphize so many things. Another pattern we are always on the alert for is animals. This was once very important when we were both hunters and prey. "That cloud looks like a rabbit." [brain recognizes a possible meal] "That cloud looks like a lion." [brain recognizes the possibility of _becoming_ a meal] It is pretty rare for us to look at the clouds and see something like a fire hydrant or a 737 MAX door plug... uh oh-
@MrAchile13
6 ай бұрын
the video quality is visibly better, well done!
@Leeside999
6 ай бұрын
Hey, bro. I saw some of your recent Serapeum photos. Great work.
@MrAchile13
6 ай бұрын
@@Leeside999 Thanks, although the conditions were not ideal. Would have love to have more time and to do better 😅
@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks
6 ай бұрын
I came to say the same..I lighting is much better
@JuanitaGrande
6 ай бұрын
Tres. And THANKS for this gem. 🙌🏼
@johngriffiths118
6 ай бұрын
Nice warm lighting
@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks
6 ай бұрын
Please pause at 10:42 this image claiming perfect symmetry is right out of Christopher Dunn's book. At a glance the beard and philtrum( under the nose) are offset. He just arbitrarily added some fat lines on top of a picture and measured nothing.
@Eyes_Open
6 ай бұрын
I am always amazed at the obvious non-symmetry that Dunn commands you to believe is symmetry.
@Leeside999
6 ай бұрын
But but but Christopher Dunn is an eNGinEEr!!!!
@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks
6 ай бұрын
@@Eyes_Open Rogan has them put the pics up on his screen and goes "ohhhhh woOow" 🤦♂️
@MrAchile13
6 ай бұрын
@@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks ben from uncharted x pulled a photo of an Egyptian granite core, on Joe's podcast and begun to wonder at how impossible it is....without realizing he's looking at an experimental replica made by scientists against myths 🤣 Of course, he still pretends that didn't happened...
@caodesignworks2407
6 ай бұрын
On almost every one of those "but the symmetry though" claims, specifically the vessels, you'll see handles with far less symmetry, often off set from each other. and when you bring them up, it's always dismissed
@RonTodd-gb1eo
6 ай бұрын
Future archaeologists will discover that all the great religious sites are at the intersection of lines drawn between branches of a well known supermarket.
@WorldofAntiquity
6 ай бұрын
😄
@neoqwerty
Ай бұрын
someone's gonna find the tumblr post about the costco parking lot at 3am being an alternate dimension and think the costco parking lots must have contained stargates
@mikepowell2776
6 ай бұрын
Back in the 1960s, ‘enhanced’ versions of Watkin’s Ley Line Theory were very popular. Being somewhat sceptical, we (college students at the time) drew a random series of straight lines on an Ordnance Survey map of southern England; twelve lines, each representing around 25 miles. Every one passed through at least six (with a couple passing 10) ‘sacred sites.’ It was all but impossible to draw a line which DIDN’T pass through or beside such sites as churches, stone circles, burial mounds, hillforts and so on simply because there were so many of them. I’m also reminded of a conclusion reached by a (then) leading anthropologist who had discovered a 300 metre set of tracks made by a family group of pre-homo-sapiens. He concluded that they were not yet tool-users as no tools or flakes had been found associated with the tracks. NO! Had it not occurred to him that the makers of the tracks might just possibly have been capable of walking 300 metres without dropping anything? Excellent, thoughtful video - as we’ve come to anticipate. Thanks for your excellent work.
@molybdomancer195
6 ай бұрын
I did an A level in archaeology. In an early project you had to take an Ordnance Survey sheet map and count all the archaeological sites on it. I took the map I had in my house - it was the one containing Stonehenge. My tutor laughed when I sent the results in and said it was a bad choice because how rich in sites that area is. A line going through that map would hit endless sites
@huttj509
6 ай бұрын
A few years ago Matt Parker (Stand Up Maths on youtube)took a similar claim about archaeological sites forming isosceles triangles and worked out the odds of finding those triangles to that precision in random data. He then followed it up by finding the same patterns in locations of old Woolworth's locations, to demonstrate the point.
@neoqwerty
Ай бұрын
Huh. It's good to know that I'm not a tool user according to that leading anthropologist's conclusions. My dad and I used to go camping about a half-kilometer deep into our land parcel when I lived in a very rural area, we carried a fair bit of stuff over there and made it a point to do an inventory check at each rest point because tools are expensive to buy AND to make and it's better to backtrack and pick them back up or better yet not drop them. We also used this revolutionary technology of "bags of something supple enough to carry non-sharp things" and "straps of something that can be twisted and coiled and knotted" to keep the things attached to us.
@neoqwerty
Ай бұрын
@@huttj509 Asleep: theories about ancient civilizations because religious significance sites Awake: ancient precursor civilizations invented corporations because of Costco parking lots' locations on leylines
@shanetheundertaker8474
6 ай бұрын
The allure of pseudo science is compelling to some , but the truth is more fascinating than they could ever be ! Especially when you realise the past civilizations were just like us , but more social / cultural. Blessings 🙏 to you all ⭐
@Its_Shaun_the_Sheep
6 ай бұрын
So true
@siddharthabanerjee6155
6 ай бұрын
I am delighted to see how your channel has progressed and grown since I first discovered it about almost 3 years ago. Keep going.
@letyvasquez2025
6 ай бұрын
Pseudo-archaeology has already moved on to Lunar and Martian archaelogy. Next up are the asteroids…
@user-zh5lj1ec4k
6 ай бұрын
One of the funniest things is how ancient aliens used us as slave labor. As if earths minerals can’t be found anywhere else and they don’t have robots and shit that can mine without the hassle of dealing with people.
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
Obviously the logical thing for a space faring civilization to do would be to travel to an entirely different solar system just to land on the most massive terrestrial planet that also has a fairly thick atmosphere, thus making it the most expensive location to acquire minerals, and then enslave a stone age population instead of using mechanization to mine their minerals. Only to mine an absolutely tiny fraction of what said population will themselves mine later in just two centuries using mechanization. In general I tend to find that UFOlogists have a completely absurd idea of what space is like and what makes sense for aliens to do. Like if aliens wanted to observe us they wouldn't be flying around in our atmosphere, they'd construct a giant autonomous telescope in the Oort cloud where we have no chance of detecting it. Like we can build the JWST and we are only just getting the hang of space travel, surely a space faring civilization could easily build something much more advanced.
@neoqwerty
Ай бұрын
As if earth wasn't made out of space stuff. Like, if they're such advanced aliens, wouldn't harvesting exploding stars and nebulae be easier if they've got the spaceships for travelling through a lot of LITERALLY NOTHING INTERESTING?
@LaFayVerte
6 ай бұрын
I really appreciate the way you address this subject now, very informative approach without confrontation against anyone in particular. I am more and more admired of you.
@CorryDMG
6 ай бұрын
The idea that acoustical properties of ancient buildings was always intentional or required advanced knowledge, also regularly pops up. They certainly knew how to design theatres etc, but the idea that some enclosed spaces are specifically tuned to a certain holy frequency is new age nonsens. Or that a pyramid stair is designed so the echo of a clap sounds like a bird, is also not a special feature. Every stair in open air, of even corrugated sheet metal from an ordinary industrial building, will have a similar reflection pattern.
@shimrrashai-rc8fq
6 ай бұрын
True. But I'd also wonder though - would it be such an extraordinary claim to suggest some _were_ intentional? You don't need mathematical physics and a supercomputer simulating wave equations to design something acoustically, just intuition for how sound is affected as things are moved about, shapes are changed, etc. The fact that people designed musical instruments for ages is sufficient proof of this principle ... why couldn't they have done that on larger scales, too? Precisely inspired _by_ hearing the very thing you mention - how that sound bounces and alters within a room. The question is, what would _indicate_ an intentional configuration for acoustics, and on what reason would we take it and not something else as evidence for such?
@MetastaticMaladies
6 ай бұрын
@@shimrrashai-rc8fq They aren’t saying it isn’t, it’s just not advanced knowledge.
@CorryDMG
6 ай бұрын
@@shimrrashai-rc8fq You are correct that a higher degree of understanding physics is not required to make use of principles which can be discovered experimentally. But sometimes people turn this reasoning around.
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
@@shimrrashai-rc8fq I mean the way you prove that something was intentionally designed for any specific use is by showing that it was used like that. For example we know that churches were specifically designed to have good acoustics because it is discussed by the people building them and singing is common in churches. But there's no reason to believe that the Giza pyramids were designed to have some specific acoustic properties since they would have been sealed upon completion so were never used for that purpose.
@neoqwerty
Ай бұрын
@@shimrrashai-rc8fq Why would you plug up a room if the accoustics of clapping INSIDE IT were important? You wouldn't seal off a recording booth's door with bricks and mortar, right? Because then it's not exactly serving the purposes you spent time building the recording booth and placing the recording equipment in it for.
@Sheevlord
6 ай бұрын
Another way to use soft tools to shape hard rocks is to use abrasives. For example, Egyptians used a copper or bronze saw to cut granite. The saw itself didn't do the cutting - instead the work was done by corundum powder between the saw and the stone. In fact, we still use this principle. Sandpaper, for example.
@nox5555
6 ай бұрын
Im not sure if the math behind that theory works. but we will never get a real study about it... Archaeology is not used to the amount of math needed to get a good answer and they are allergic to any kind of hard data... We dont even have any data about how much energy was needed to build any of the megastructures in question.
@adamseward4713
6 ай бұрын
At first i was put off by your use of air quotes; later, watching you lean into the camera, I thought, "I'd hate to run into this guy at a party." Finally, though, I gave you a very rare thumbs up, because you were correct on every point and supplied good information, such as the Moh scale. I'm a life-long student of pre-contact South American cultures, live where they lived, and dealing with people influenced by guys like Brien Foerster is a price for walking into that room. I have the forensic tools to deal with such people but I'm rarely sure that I have convinced them, and it's nice to run into someone who can make the case with such brevity and clarity.
@PXCharon
6 ай бұрын
Precisionism infuriates me to no end. An ancient global supercivilization used their lasers, "vibration and frequency" and other incredible technological advancements to.... stack rocks. Surely if they could build a laser, they'd have mined iron, titanium, aluminum, tungsten, and so on to build incredible structures with less material and labor involved.
@analiviaminsk1171
Ай бұрын
well as far as I see, to carve and build with huge rocks was indeed high technology for 12000 years ago right? Other populations wasn´t even near this advance. So maybe is a matter of perspective.
@Leeside999
6 ай бұрын
Nice vid, Dr M. Please continue calling out the spoofers and their tactics.
@stevenleonard7219
6 ай бұрын
I was so lucky to have an anthropology professor 50 years ago who was well ahead of his time. He was a vociferous opponent of cultural diffusion. He was a proponent of the idea of cultural analogies. Similar ideas, concepts and practices would by their nature be a result of solving similar problems. After all, humans are humans regardless of where they reside.
@RobespierreThePoof
6 ай бұрын
Pseudo-archeology really grinds my gears. As if it isn't challenging enough to get the public to understand the past
@letyvasquez2025
6 ай бұрын
Because ancient people weren’t working towards a future as they built our “past”
@jeffstrom164
6 ай бұрын
To bad this guy is spreading a fallacy or two, himself, then.
@letyvasquez2025
6 ай бұрын
A fallacy which a scientist can correct. An author turned journalist who just asks questions will not make scientific or logical fallacies. They must first engage in the scientific process to make scientific errors which can then be corrected. Scientists are not tasked with resolving the problems of pseudoscience. A professional pseudoscientist must do that.
@jeffstrom164
6 ай бұрын
@letyvasquez2025 this guy says he's an archeologist and teacher. It's his responsibility to spread truth not narrative.
@letyvasquez2025
6 ай бұрын
Teach him the truth so that he can properly share it. Unless you think teachers can’t continuing learning…
@SobekLOTFC
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for being a light of scholarship in the darkness of the Tartaros of YT misinformation, Dr Miano 👏
@TerribleFriendWhoFindsYouCool
6 ай бұрын
Almost everyone I've known loves ancient aliens and its still on TV. If I bring up logic, conversations drop and persuasiveness fails everytime. In fact I've risked friendship positions
@jasongarcia2140
6 ай бұрын
That's sad. I liked that show (sort of) at one point years ago but I love Hancock.
@AlbertaGeek
6 ай бұрын
@@jasongarcia2140 Then you love a liar.
@jasongarcia2140
6 ай бұрын
@@AlbertaGeek ok. I can love what I love. I don't think he's lying. I disagree with you. He may be incorrect about his ideas but I completely disagree with you that he is lying.
@AlbertaGeek
6 ай бұрын
@@jasongarcia2140 _"I can love what I love"_ Didn't say you couldn't. _"I don't think he's lying"_ It doesn't matter what you think. It has been demonstrated to be the case in numerous videos critiquing him. Honestly, you sound more like a religious devotee than someone who is curious and inquisitive. Of course not everyone _has_ to be curious and inquisitive, I just find it a little sad when someone is not.
@everythingisalllies2141
6 ай бұрын
@@AlbertaGeek And you are guilty of the same crime, loving BS and being fully convinced that its real science. I'm talking about the nonsensical BS claims of Einstein. You love it, but its pseudoscience, the greatest example of misinformation ever and the cause of a lot of other silly ideas. Never have so many lies been used to prop up a really morainic idea. But its all done to server a greater agenda, basically to get you to "trust the science". In this way governments can get you to do agree to almost anything.
@NinjaMonkeyPrime
6 ай бұрын
You touched on this briefly but there's a few videos on how to spot pseudoscience. Appeal to authority is one, but also there is the appeal to simplicity or "what makes sense". The Martymer had a good run down in some of the clues.
@capac2
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for this great educational service! So much misinformation floating around the internet. Sending this to my children! Please keep up the good work!
@edgarsnake2857
6 ай бұрын
Great job, David. It has always amazed me that the 'pseudos' turn their noses up at science and archaeology. And then they brazenly turn around and try to use 'science' to prove their points.
@afterthought3341
6 ай бұрын
the pseudos' have encouraged many people to look into archelogy .
@jasongarcia2140
6 ай бұрын
It's also funny that just because a video supports certain beliefs that guarantees all or most of the comments are going to be "on the same team". I am totally on board with a lot of the "pseudo" sciences but im still here..
@Colonizer2
6 ай бұрын
@@afterthought3341did they really though? I got into it originally because because i became interested in the topic and that was the most common type of content available
@ThrottleAddiction
6 ай бұрын
*It's hard to undo the mess created by the likes of Erich von Däniken and his successor, Graham Hancock.*
@gh0s7sama
6 ай бұрын
Pseudo Archaeology can be summarized by saying it’s anything that uses the word “precision” more than 3-4 times per sentence.
@LanceHall
6 ай бұрын
It's interesting how Chris Dunn shows us a jar that he says can ONLY be made on a modern equipment while being surrounded by the modern equipment that could make it.
@jacksilver7701
6 ай бұрын
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO DAVID THANKS
@birtybonkers8918
6 ай бұрын
Much of this was fine and good warning against dangers like seeing patterns where they don’t exist. I felt your bit on accuracy of artifacts made very dubious statements indeed. Mediaeval cathedrals are magnificent but not precise. The precision of an artificer is indeed limited by both their skill and the tool. This seems obvious, to me, at least. It seems absurd to argue, as I took you to be doing, that an artificer could achieve an extreme level of precision just through skill alone. The precision possible is constrained by the technique. In some cases the technique used does seem to be undetermined (e.g. for the famous stone pre-dynastic vases you featured), and I’d like someone to discover how they did it because the precision seems quite remarkable for the period they date from. Finally, the criticism of appeal to authority is wonderful but, dare I say, that is what archaeologists and historians themselves often fall back on when responding to unwelcome challenges from outsiders.
@sampagano205
6 ай бұрын
Medieval cathedrals are extremely precisely engineered, they're blindly engineered, but they are the product of rigorous selection that creates an artificial impression of precision by virtue of the fact that if they screw up they just fall down in the process of construction.
@birtybonkers8918
6 ай бұрын
@@sampagano205 No, Sam. They are not precise in the same way that the vases featured briefly in the video are precise. Cathedrals did not have to be built to exact dimensions in order to be robust and to have the right aesthetic impact. Of course, the scale of the object is very different, but we are talking about very different orders of precision. I think you were perhaps interpreting precision differently from what I meant.
@stuartnicklin650
6 ай бұрын
Explaining the origin of these ideas from a critical viewpoint is exactly what is needed.
@TanyaLairdCivil
6 ай бұрын
Now I really want to see a paper submitted to (and summarily rejected by) a legitimate historical that just cites the author's dreams as sources.
@halo.hunter5079
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the clarity, Doc. No nonsense. Well, what can one expect from a seasoned lecturer who has critiqued one too many papers 😁 Awesome job as always, Doc Miano 👌🏼
@GizzyDillespee
6 ай бұрын
He's pre-seasoned? Yikes, I hope the cannibals don't read the comments!
@Saki630
6 ай бұрын
dam professor, you did a great job with this video. Everything was concise and well substantiated with the least amount of words necessary. You could have easily made this twice as long and even clipped in the scammers passing off pseudoscience for $$$. I wish you had some more exposure on other informative channels and even do a guest appearance in some shows with you easy to follow logic and well practiced dictation.
@royalapplepie
6 ай бұрын
Love your videos! Keep spreading knowledge ❤🔥
@donnisthran2812
6 ай бұрын
I feel the same way.
@xt7519
6 ай бұрын
I think one of the points you made should be underscored...that being that the folks who are pushing these sorts of alternative theories often cherry pick their data, ignoring any data that contridicts their theory. One that I always think of is how they can talk about how some ancient piece of architecture could only be made using advanced tools or lost technology...while literally ignoring the pounding stones right next to half finished examples of the same thing. I've seen this over and over throughout the world, from the Middle East to the New World, to Asia to a certain woo shrouded island in the Pacific discovered by Europeans on an Easter morning. The evidence for how these things were made is there...but it is ignorned. There are plenty of experimental archeologiests would also be happy to demonstrate how to make these things, but they aren't consulted...instead, it's always 'experts' who, as you say, appeal to authority. I think a lot of these guys are playing logical fallacy bingo.
@shimrrashai-rc8fq
6 ай бұрын
To be fair, I suspect that's more because that they _don't_ notice the pounding stones because they do not have access to a suitably comprehensive set of photos. They probably go for something from a _pop_ magazine and that's it.
@TheBubblePopper
6 ай бұрын
It works both ways. That's why two camps formed.
@sheldonwheaton881
6 ай бұрын
When I was a History major, someone asked me about archeology. I said I'm not that interested in pottery.
@davidthomas8303
4 ай бұрын
I really appreciate the way you approach this. It honestly feels like therapy when you feel surrounded by the scientifically illiterate. You do good work, and your name is David. Can't ask for better.
@SHDUStudios
3 ай бұрын
Dr. Miano just looks exasperated and like he’s slowly going crazy for exposing all these conspiracies, I love the new style!
@farzad6908
6 ай бұрын
Great lighting, great sound, great content, this is a great channel! 1M subs, where you at!?!?!?
@mutualbeard
6 ай бұрын
Hyperdiffusionism has also been used to justify imperial ambitions by bringing "civilisation" to the "barbarians".
@barriolimbas
6 ай бұрын
Yes, discarding past theories is a cautionary tale, of putting too much validity in the current paradigm. Open mindedness, objectivity tempered with prudent skepticism should be attitude in science.
@PlayWithYourThumb
6 ай бұрын
Nice coverage of the various "pseudos". The "precision" one is particularly apt.
@alanmarshall4989
6 ай бұрын
Another brilliant one Dr. Miano. Keep em coming, hopefully some of the pseudos will watch your channel if they can tear themselves away from Ben's magic flute.
@Eyes_Open
6 ай бұрын
Keep shining the light on the pseudo-science cults.
@j.c.3800
6 ай бұрын
especially if you gain an audience with pier reviewers
@Arrendle
6 ай бұрын
Hear, hear! Love the video! Love the corduroy! I always squint when they say that legend/story is history with advanced technology. And I sigh when they read a description from said legend/story and then try to compare the description to an iPad, a cell phone, or a rocket. Don't fall for the "history in this ancient story some old guy wrote" trick!
@clippyPaper
5 ай бұрын
There was a really funny demonstration preformed by an English Archeologist demonstrating the absurdity of "Lay lines" and illusory pattern perception. The Archeologist posted a map of the UK with fixed points joined by lines,to create all sorts of Geometric shapes.... only to reveal the fixed points,were infact McDonald's Restaurants.
@rdawson808
6 ай бұрын
Another fantastic video. I work in a... let's say not-well-understood field and am constantly encouraging people to define their terms well, to set out their arguments in a very logical way, etc. This video goes a long way to help me better understand your other great videos on pseudo-archeology. Those are my favs, btw.
@jeromeguimond3487
6 ай бұрын
Magister you’re a Keeper thanks for this one ! It’s a masterpiece. 🖖👍
@johnmccall4035
6 ай бұрын
I'm really pleased you are making these videos and challenging assertions about ancient history that do not derive from the academic community. On precision cutting, it seems that one amateur website that has modelled the precision of ancient vases is responding to your prior criticisms by applying their techniques to more vases and also talking to universities about getting access to ancient collections with well-established provenance. In time that could move their assertions towards the standard of evidence you are demanding, but whether it does or not, it seems to me a positive reaction to your criticism and deserving of some respect. Is there a link you can give to papers that show high machining precision achieved in stonework of medieval origin? It would be helpful to compare that to precision achieved on ancient vases to counter suggestions that "high technology" is required to achieve that. Modern methods of manufacture do in fact turn out high volumes of everyday crockery items with higher precision than their traditionally made counterparts simply because it is more profitable to do so. Precision is an essential to efficient mass manufacture. So your argument that there would be no reason to apply such high technology to churn out everyday items is not necessarily valid.
@russellmillar7132
6 ай бұрын
Read up on Michelangelo. While not medieval, he achieved amazing precision with hand tools during a time when no one will claim he used power tools. Fellows like Hancock and Ben from UnsupportedX often claim that the "mainstream" has the timeline wrong for civilization because the vessels they choose to measure for precision are pre-dynastic. My question for those dudes is: "If mainstream dating isn't accurate, how did you determine when, or during what period these pieces were made? Do you just accept mainstream methods when it's convenient for your chosen narrative? On that note Hancock has often said that Gobekli Tepe was build around 7000 years before the pyramids or Stonehenge. Doing some grade school math (given that he accepts mainstream dating of GT at 11,600 ybp), that means he also accepts the mainstream dating of the pyramids.
@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer
6 ай бұрын
You might like to check out The Edmund de Unger Fatimid Rock Crystal Project which will lead you to a number of papers by E. Morero and J. Johns - eg. The Diffusion of Rock Crystal Carving Techniques in the Fāṭimid Mediterranean 2021 - Elise Morero The manufacturing techniques of Fatimid rock crystal ewers (10th-12th centuries AD) 2017 - Jeremy Johns, Elise Morero and this Seeking Transparency Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean Edited by Cynthia Hahn and Avinoam Shalem This might also be interesting Rock Crystal and the Nature of Artifice in Ancient Rome 2020 - Patrick R Crowley
@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer
6 ай бұрын
I found this on youtube Lecture - "The Magnificent Seven": The Great Fāṭimid Rock Crystal Ewers (Jeremy Johns ) which might help you to decide if Fatimid rock crystal is something you feel interested in.
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
Your last argument is circular, high precission in every day goods is only desireable because of our system of industrial mass production wherein standardization makes production cheaper. There is nothing inherent about every day goods that makes precision desireable, I don't particularly care if my pot is perfectly circular or looks the exact same as the one the last customer brought so long as I can cook food in it. You can't use the specific demands of an industrial society when talking about pre-industrial societies, that's like saying that the egyptians drilled for oil because oil is used in cars.
@wilhelmschmidt7240
19 күн бұрын
I appreciate this kind of video and I think you do a good presentation. Not everyone is equipped to recognize pseudoscience and by communicating these things you make the world a less annoying place for me to live in and that is greatly appreciated.
@neutronalchemist3241
6 ай бұрын
I want my fake archaeology to come with fake science. Why should I not have the whole experience?
@iainsmith6643
6 ай бұрын
I've recently been working at Alfred Watkins old house. Being oldish I remember the ley line craze in the 70's. It was fun but you could draw loads with just an OS plan.
@mrjones2721
6 ай бұрын
The craze began in England, where the idea was that you could find ley lines by looking for lines that crossed lots of religious sites and/or bodies of water. Know what’s full of religious sites and bodies of water? England.
@molybdomancer195
6 ай бұрын
I once had a project where I had to count all the archaeological sites on an OS map. It’s crazy how much stuff we have in the UK
@lukelee7967
6 ай бұрын
Precisionism as an argument makes no sense to me "This thing is made very well". Yeah, people in the past could do things well, what a shock. Ley lines, if you draw a line between two points on the globe, there's now a line there.
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
A lot of ley lines also just happen to demonstrate that populations were generally concentrated around the same lattitudes, almost as if the Earth has different biomes and some are more hospitable than others.
@cecileroy557
6 ай бұрын
Soo happy you're covering this!!!!
@ALaModePi
6 ай бұрын
I really liked this video, not simply for the direct information it provides, but also for pointing out the methods and processes that accompany real scientific methods.
@karldubhe8619
6 ай бұрын
Oh, heck. I was watching your video and missed my bus. Good thing I'm not working today. 🤪
@WorldofAntiquity
6 ай бұрын
Oh no!
@karldubhe8619
6 ай бұрын
Oh, it's Sunday too. I didn't realize. Retirement is good. @@WorldofAntiquity
@premiersportingkc3443
6 ай бұрын
Your debunking of bad archaeology videos are my favorite. I wish you would do more of them often, but I get they take a lot of research to do. Every few months I go through the playlist of all your debunking videos, wishing for a new one to be released, lol
@asbo_yo
6 ай бұрын
Except he didn't debunk a single thing in this video.
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
One thing that always bothers me is when people are like “Oh we can't build this type of thing today”, like we absolutely can it's just that we don't want to because we have different concerns. Like we could easily build something that dwarfs the Egyptian pyramids if wanted to, we regularly move dirt and rock in volumes that dwarf the pyramids, it's just that we don't have any Pharoah god kings around so we'd generally consider it a waste to build. Roman concrete is another example, like the reason why modern concrete isn't as durable as Roman concrete isn't because we don't know how to build it anymore, it's because we generally don't build structures to last for hundreds or thousands of years and so instead optimize our concrete for strength. Plus we've gotten so good at construction that it's now so cheap that it doesn't need to stand for very long, this is arguably a problem for the enviroment though. One that's really funny is cathedrals or European neoclassical architecture because like it's literally still being built or is extremely recent, like less than a century old.
@varyolla435
6 ай бұрын
Yes. Our culture - and hence the impetus for our creating things - is premised upon = _"consumption."_ So we build things as you say with the intention that they will eventually be replaced by something else. The ancients however created things with a view they might "last forever". On the surface that of course is not practical. In so much however as things like religious beliefs etc. were their motivations for doing so then creating temples or tombs which might last centuries or longer served their purpose. Ancient goal: _"I want to be remembered"_ Modern goal: _"I am trying to make some money"_
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
@@varyolla435 Yeah our thinking is fundamentally different from all cultures that came before us because we happen to live in the most unusual period in human history. This is why we often have a hard time understanding those cultures and why anyone interested in history needs to put a lot of effort into understanding past cultures on their premises. Our society is underpinned by ideas of progress, productivity and science that are completely new and would have been completely foreign to almost all preceeding cultures.
@sampagano205
6 ай бұрын
I just can't get over the "we can't build the pyramids" when there is a bass pro shop inside of a massive glass pyramid in Tennessee.
@RevolvedPastor
6 ай бұрын
Couldn’t many of your points on “pseudo-archaeology” be equally applicable to those seeking to debunk pseudo-archaeology? I’ve heard some really piss-poor arguments against some topics that don’t rely on science at all, but devolve quickly into personal attacks. “This person is an idiot and you are an idiot for being entertained by them,” the Potholer debate style. Don’t get me wrong, I am a big fan, Dr. Milano.
@alexvlk
6 ай бұрын
Would love a follow up: what assumptions do we hold today may be more tentative than what they seem?
@bofpwet9500
6 ай бұрын
Some of your lines are pure gold, great vid, work and arguments as always. Concerning the pyramids I always say no civilisation could have build any huge stone spherical monuments for exemple, like we don't see any montains that are top down, they all look alike because of physic, not culture..
@sovietcanuckistanian
6 ай бұрын
Backwards reasoning is a common one pseudo archeological method, especially when paired with ley-lines or astronomy. Pseudo archeologists will assume that a site aligned with the solar equinox or some star or constellation and then backdate it to the last time it would have aligned with the site.
@theoptimisticskeptic
4 ай бұрын
Wow! That was a fantastic breakdown! This should be required viewing for all Science Communicators! Along with accompanying research and verification of course! Although some of this is just common sense if you think about it.
@chiznowtch
6 ай бұрын
As a of years, I can tell you that because of .
@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks
6 ай бұрын
top comment
@Tony11442
6 ай бұрын
That was funny 😂
@MrPeteykins
6 ай бұрын
My favorite example of pareidolia is the "Face on Mars™"
@julietfischer5056
6 ай бұрын
The shadows do look very much like those of a giant sculpture. When you look at the more recent photo, you understand why.
@jasongarcia2140
6 ай бұрын
Hey what is that trademark for lol?
@shimrrashai-rc8fq
6 ай бұрын
@@julietfischer5056 Yes, it's a mountain. I wish it would be visited, though. It looks like an interesting mountain! Perhaps with water gulleys, so perhaps aliens, at least little alien microbes anyway, or fossils from them if nothing else, _are_ there just not in the way one might have thought. Not to mention its pop cult significance would seem to potentially gather enthusiasm for such a mission at least among those who are not wedded to an overly naive interpretation of it.
@MetastaticMaladies
6 ай бұрын
@@shimrrashai-rc8fq You should watch Elderfox Documentaries. It will amaze you the places the rover has visited, places far more interesting than the mountain, at least in my opinion. That channel is a wealth of spectacular images and footage.
@Grabacuppacoffee
6 ай бұрын
Me too...but I watched Library of the untolds new mars video..... it's part of a bigger picture the alignments around it are identical to things here..check it out..
@Morechinlockvicar
6 ай бұрын
Great video Miano as usual, Any chance you could do a video on Billy Carson I recently heard him on a podcast and I have never heard someone lie so much for 2 hours straight or make up stuff like that and not be challenged by a host you will have a field day with his videos and presentations.
@michaelpleskovich3511
4 ай бұрын
Kudos to your courageous counterpoint to the groundswell of speculation supporting alternative human histories. Math, science, and facts are good tools to help us hold onto reality. Diffusion / Evolution :: Nature / Nurture.
@brianjauch9958
6 ай бұрын
Aliens, nothing but aliens.
@johngriffiths118
6 ай бұрын
Aliens all the way down to the bottom
@brianjauch9958
6 ай бұрын
Of our bottoms!@@johngriffiths118
@TankUni
6 ай бұрын
I saw a new advance in Great Pyramid woo recently. On twitter someone had claimed that by raising/lowering the blocks of granite in the portcullis to the Kings Chamber, the pyramid could have generated noise, if not actually speak. When I asked for proof, I was of course referred to the work of Christopher Dunn. No stone left unturned, I guess.
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
Because of course it is common practice to block off instruments with several tons of stone, that obviously makes for great acoustics.
@julieblair7472
6 ай бұрын
The list deconstructing Precisionism blew my mind. I feel like my thought process just leveled up.
@garyb-tl5tq
6 ай бұрын
Hello, thanks for your videos. I think it's very useful to debunk some of the nonsense surrounding pseudo-archaeology on the internet. In the interest of balance, it would be good if you created videos which pointed out how unscientific archaeologists often are and have been in the past. For example, the Clovis first model for the USA was known to be wrong for decades but many mainstream archaeologists chose to pillory any scientist who discovered artefacts that contradicted their model of prehistory. Not to mention the fact that the USA has allowed the majority of its indigenous monuments to be ploughed out of existence. It's not only journalists who are sometimes pseudo-scientific or antithetical to scientific progress.
@Eyes_Open
6 ай бұрын
The Clovis example is an over-worked cliche employed by pseudo types. Evidence changed the understanding. Not opinions.
@WorldofAntiquity
6 ай бұрын
Neither of your examples is how about scientific archaeologists are.
@garyb-tl5tq
5 ай бұрын
That's not a grammatically correct sentence.@@WorldofAntiquity
@WorldofAntiquity
5 ай бұрын
@@garyb-tl5tq Oops. Switch 'how' and 'about.'
@the3mevrick
6 ай бұрын
in my country heads of space program , PM , various ministers likes to remind everyone now and then that we were the once who gifted rest of the world civilisation , science and everything else . 😅 but then we were tricked / enslaved and lost it all🤯🤯🤯🤯
@troydavis1
6 ай бұрын
What country is that? Sounds like India and its self-obsession !!
@MetastaticMaladies
6 ай бұрын
@@troydavis1 Some Turkish people are the same way too, but I suppose you could find a group of people like that from any and every couple try around the world lol
@esbendit
6 ай бұрын
If I were to add to your list, it would be catastrophism. Invoking spectacular catastrophies, that conveniently erase all evidence of their proposed advanced civilisation. Often ttwisting real events in the process. A favorite seems to be the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, ignoring both that it has fallen out of favour and that in either case the climatic shifts at the end of the glacial would have been the real killer. In the more absurd end we have the mud flood guys. Finally they ignore that climatic changes are far more devastating to both ecosystems and society than a big rock falling or a bit of water.
@mrjones2721
6 ай бұрын
Those catastrophes wouldn’t destroy all the evidence anyways. They would drown or bury the evidence, but that’s it.
@esbendit
6 ай бұрын
@@mrjones2721 Definetly, but ancient civilisations needed to learn their skills from some hyperadvanced empire, they need some way to explain away the lack of any real evidence.
@aphexlane
6 ай бұрын
Your videos are always a treat. Your lighting looks way better btw. Well done
@raymondbrolly18499
6 ай бұрын
Great upload again David. Keep up the good work / science.
@Turdfergusen382
6 ай бұрын
Someone needs to take on Randall Carlson. He has a whole following of catastrophism dorks that’s believe his myths about geology. He mixes the facts with the fiction a lot.
@Turdfergusen382
6 ай бұрын
@PseudeaEpimetheus what should I be greatful for? Is it falsely spreading flood myths? Or his inability to understand some swamps in the Carolina’s? Or maybe is it how he found Atlantis for sure this time. Give me a break you quacks.
@AnswermanAnswerman
6 ай бұрын
So there was no ice age and sea level has not gone up 430 feet in 5000 years(17,000-11500), billions in climate science and core drilling is all faked. The Minoans did not didn’t die in a tidal wave like 150000 people in the Indian Ocean in 2004! Sorry simple fact that it happens, just like Japan that saved millions by being prepared before it happened, why because it had happen hundreds of times before! Resent studies have proven cosmic strike in the mid east destroyed a town around 5000 bc just like a certain story in bible!
@Oddball5.0
6 ай бұрын
Correct. The people we call Minoans didn’t die in a tidal wave.
@nox5555
6 ай бұрын
@@Oddball5.0 did anybody claim that or do you just dont know what tidal wave means?
@Oddball5.0
6 ай бұрын
@@nox5555 There was a post about it. It has now been deleted.
@MurrayHerts
6 ай бұрын
I think exploring different ideas and "what if.." history is a lot of fun but I don't know why they don't just write it as fiction? is the whole concept of an alternative past not as sexy if they don't pretend it's true
@julietfischer5056
6 ай бұрын
Thing is, these folks believe it. For whatever reason, our known ancestors _must_ have been too stupid to do anything more than eat, sleep, and reproduce. There _must_ have been a now-lost super-civilization that taught us everything. Where did this super-civilization get their knowledge? Either they were extraterrestrials, were taught by ETs, or were just that smart. I think about the idea of a first-of-its kind civilization that reached a level equivalent to many of the high-level ancient civilizations we know about, and how much influence it might have on other peoples. For some reason, I never come up with 'They gave the world everything.'
@paints_his_shirt_red
6 ай бұрын
Great talk, thank you! The progression from atl atl to bow and arrow in the Americas has always fascinated me. While it certainly and probably could have occurred independently from the eastern hemisphere, I wonder if just one small, unknown, isolated, moment of contact could have introduced it.
@AnyoneCanSee
6 ай бұрын
Fantastic stuff. Keep up the good work.
@raina4732
6 ай бұрын
Just hand an inexperienced person a violin and tell them to play a violin concerto. They won’t even be able to play a single note! On the same instrument and expert can make magic. (I wrote this comment on one of UnchartedX’s videos, and he deleted it! Too offensive I guess.) Great video! And wonderful picture quality!
@raina4732
6 ай бұрын
I gave him a few more examples like: some oil paint and a blank canvas will never allow an amateur to recreate the Mona Lisa. And I asked him to carve ANY of the “very crappy” vases out of an easy stone, with any hand tool of his choosing, (this is a very easy challenge compared to the ones he gives) and if HE personally cannot recreate a “crappy” work of art, then he has no right challenging others to do even harder tasks according to his perfection and judgment.
@Tony11442
6 ай бұрын
Well done
@user-rv8wb1nl1b
6 ай бұрын
History for Granite used to be good , but now he is a bit whacky too . . . .Graham Hancock is the worst tho . ..
@ryann6067
6 ай бұрын
History For Granite has created some excellent Ancient Egyptian architecture and engineering analysis videos. Im curious what have you seen in their content “is a bit whacky”?
@benchilders571
6 ай бұрын
The last two hfg videos I watched both overstated the conclusion. I'm a big fan in the long run, and I think the work he is doing is valuable. The level of detail he has achieved in evaluating the structure of the Great Pyramid is awesome. But his evidence doesn't reach the level of certainty that he claims in the videos. Being skeptical, especially of one's own conclusions, is one of the most important aspects of the scientific method. I think he would benefit greatly from working with a team of people who challenged him
@ryann6067
6 ай бұрын
@@benchilders571 100 percent agree with your opinion on HFG. And yeah, I had some questions regarding his conclusion on his last (fascinating) video on the so called pyramid shafts.
@theviperiscalling
6 ай бұрын
Invoking graham hancock at the same time as HFG kinda implies theyre remotely on the same spectrum
@headlessspaceman5681
6 ай бұрын
I would say that the majority of my friends, coworkers and associates in Utah have little or no science education. I have heard some of the most ridiculous and insane ideas from them. Probably the majority of the people I know have at one time or another tried to share pseudo-scientific notions with me as if they were fact or possibly fact. To be fair I was raised by anti-science extremists and religious fundamentalists and I also have little or no science education, or worse, where the things I thought I knew were false. I went on to learn a lot of pseudoscience first, from all the usual sources: it's more accessible and it seems exciting and mysterious. Then I started learning real science and realizing the piles of garbage I had been taught by fraudsters, hucksters and fundamentalists. But additionally I have learned that my friends don't want to hear about it. They get mad at me if I try to talk about real science and how it contradicts pseudo science. They dismiss real science that I'm explaining as "just my opinion." People are really emotionally and psychologically invested in pseudoscience! They have an attitude of discovery or ownership over their pseudo science ideas, which is ironic when you hear the same exact thing coming out of so many people's mouths after they hear one podcast or see one viral video. My own friends get mad at me when I criticize their pseudo-scientific ideas. The older I get, the more I find that friends WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER have gotten sucked in by fake science and fake archaeology and yet they have no curiosity to learn more about REAL science or REAL archaeology. This whole thing is an interpersonal minefield. You can have friends or you can have science, but you can't have both, if you live in Utah. I appreciate your work as a science communicator but we need a million more people like you. Pseudoscience gets halfway around the world while real science is still brushing its teeth.
@comentedonakeyboard
6 ай бұрын
Stonemasons can and do work with quite impressive acuracy using quite simple tools
@imallrightme7336
3 ай бұрын
You have ruined Gragham Hancock for me. Ive read all his books I used to love listening to him on podcasts and tv. Now i feel cheated out of €300 on all his books.
@varyolla435
3 ай бұрын
Hancock nevertheless thanks you for your "contribution" to him........ - though he rest assuredly cares not one whit for your now "angst" at having been duped I'm afraid. 🤷
@YC-ls4yx
2 ай бұрын
He certainly did not demonstrate how ancient Egyptians built the pyramids while debunking the conspiracy. If you take his words for it the Egyptians cut those stone blocks with stone, which would take so long that the aliens would come down to help.
@JayCWhiteCloud
Ай бұрын
@@YC-ls4yx ???...Dr. Miano did not intend to debate the many traditional methods for constructing the pyramids when sharing this video. These methods are still debated among professionals in the field, as it is unclear which methods actually may have been used. There is no mystery here for those who have worked in traditional stone quarrying and carving...
@N.Eismann
5 ай бұрын
11:33 - and you want your argument accepted, because the counterargument hasn't been published in authoritative journals. In psychology you call this projection. Funny how you challenge STEM science with almost no knowledge of field.
@WorldofAntiquity
5 ай бұрын
*you want your argument accepted, because the counterargument hasn't been published in authoritative journals* Arguments are accepted on their merits. *Funny how you challenge STEM science with almost no knowledge of field.* When did I challenge STEM science?
@N.Eismann
5 ай бұрын
@@WorldofAntiquityYou challenge STEM by simply implying that precision is mainly influenced by skill. So please make me a modern canon using 21st century using a 17th century furnace. Merits? Nobody in great historical journals has ever looked at this So please assess the paper "Abstractions set in granite" for its mathematical accuracy.
@WorldofAntiquity
5 ай бұрын
@@N.Eismann *You challenge STEM by simply implying that precision is mainly influenced by skill.* You're just making things up off the top of your head. *So please assess the paper "Abstractions set in granite" for its mathematical accuracy.* Already did. kzitem.info/news/bejne/uJminmaeiqRpq5g
@maidende8280
6 ай бұрын
Great video! Critical thinking, always rare, seems to be purposely ignored in education these days.
@Alexander1005
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for keeping it 💯
@wheezesanchez5661
6 ай бұрын
This guy is such a happy warrior on the side of reason
@loke6664
6 ай бұрын
I like the titles Pseudo archaeological shows uses. Like they list someone has a doctorate but they often fail to mention what it is in since it isn't something relevant to what they are talking about. My personal favorite though is when they just say "author". Any idiot can write a book, particularly if you count self published authors. They try to pretend they have some kind of scientific expertise in the subject, but it is so obvious fraudulent that it is comical.
@neonsashimidream1075
6 ай бұрын
In reference to the precision artifacts, Dr. M does a great job of pointing out the absurdity of jumping to wild conclusions or filling in gaps in knowledge with speculation. I'm all for that. Personally, I find that sort of speculation to be incredibly boring and nothing more than a distraction from the actual areas of interest. However, as to the actual precision itself and its apparent incongruity in the archaeological record, he mentions Medieval artisans and alludes to the lathe (and other ancient tools) and methods for achieving certain types of precision but stops short at giving specifics or showing analogs that exist in the archaeological record to back up his points. Based on what he's saying here, it seems he is aware of those analogs and that there may be no actual mystery regarding the precision crafting of the ancient world, at least for those with that information. If this is true, it's maddeningly frustrating to me. Obviously, this is a video covering logical fallacies and various practices of pseudoscientific "researchers" on a variety of topics. But I've done a great deal of research on the subject and have absolutely failed to discover anything close to the answers to my questions. A video explaining and pointing to analogs in the archaeological record in reference to compound precision, materials, and so forth, would make it easy for people like myself to find a much clearer understanding of these ancient techniques (which is what I am personally dying to discover). If so, a video like that would be infinitely appreciated and should truly settle the matter once and for all.
@krisb6643
6 ай бұрын
Outstanding video, really interesting to break down these approaches and how they came about!
@ironcladranchandforge7292
6 ай бұрын
Bravo!! I agree 100%. My only problem is when archeologists fall into similar traps by claiming every unexplained ancient structure was for "ritual" purposes, without proof. I remember laughing when Tony Robinson would roll his eyes on "Time Team" every time "ritual" would come up. Of course some structures were probably used for ritual purposes, no doubt. But not every unexplained or seemingly strange structure.
@Summalogicae
6 ай бұрын
It seems to me in this case that their archaeological skills can be immaculate but that their standards of logical inference are illicit. That is, they are making claims that do not follow, even though their archaeological methods may be trustworthy and proper.
@mrjones2721
6 ай бұрын
That’s an old saying that all anthropologists and archaeologists are aware of and now know to avoid. Even on Time Team, it’s very, very rare for someone to suggest something has a ritual use unless the context suggests there’s legitimately a ritual use.
@ironcladranchandforge7292
6 ай бұрын
@@mrjones2721 -- Well, I cannot prove you wrong because I haven't seen "ritual" used as an explanation for awhile. But I have seen it on Time Team as late as 2013, which wasn't that long ago.
@hedgehog3180
6 ай бұрын
“Ritual” does not solely mean religious, in anthropology every single action that does not have a directly practical purpose is considered a ritual. Graduation ceremonies for example are an example of a ritual and so graduation caps have a primarily ritual purpose. When you start looking you'll discover that human culture and life is filled and dominated by rituals because rituals serve important social functions.
@nox5555
6 ай бұрын
@@ironcladranchandforge7292 well most of todays structures have some ritual function...
@allenschmitz9644
6 ай бұрын
Modern Spoofers say they rode a rocket ship to the moon and hit a golf ball up there and used magic gravity to git back.
@fairyprincess911
6 ай бұрын
I like looking at antiquities with eyes open to see what was in the past. The pyramids around the world stump me.
@GregPrice-ep2dk
6 ай бұрын
"Psuedo" - a term applied to anything that differs from the currently accepted orthodoxy.
@varyolla435
6 ай бұрын
........ = or is denotes something which may be outwardly similar - yet which upon closer examination proves to be a _faux_ facsimile of something....
@RedDarkBull
6 ай бұрын
Haha, someone agrees with me, I do not agree with this = it is pseudo 😂
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