Note: This post is only about a specific claim Scott Wolter made prior to hosting America Unearthed. For my reviews of the show, please see my America Unearthed reviews page.
America Unearthed star Scott Wolter claims to hold a 1987 honorary master's degree in geology from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. This claim appears in his corporate biographies, and he claimed the degree in a 2009 Coast to Coast interview. He uses this as one of his credentials as a "forensic geologist," for which his primary training is a bachelor's degree in geology, awarded in 1982. I consulted the University of Minnesota, which keeps a list of all honorary degrees awarded by the University dating back to at least 1932. These awards are bestowed upon "individuals of local, statewide, national, or international prominence who have achieved distinction and recognition in public service, enterprise, philanthropy, education, science, literature, or the arts." (They are not, of course, actual academic degrees.) Scott Wolter is not on that list. He's also not on the second, independent list the college keeps. The last time the University awarded an honorary master's degree was 1956. This is not conclusive, of course. The online lists may be in error. I also consulted news accounts from 1987 and found no report of Wolter's alleged honorary degree in the commencement activities from that year. More damning? The profile of him that ran in the University of Minnesota alumni magazine in summer 2001 makes no mention of the alleged master's degree, reporting only his 1982 bachelor's degree. (Interestingly, the 2001 profile also contains Wolter's admission that he had no experience or training in examining ancient stone materials, and that his expertise was largely in scientific testing of concrete.) I could find no evidence that Wolter was ever granted the honorary degree he claims. I may have missed it, I suppose. But given the lack of evidence in any of the usual sources, it is up to Wolter to prove this degree actually exists.
1887 Comments
Tara Jordan
1/21/2013 01:25:01 pm
Eerie occurrence but again I am not surprised. Wolter has the profile of the average pseudo intellectual hooligan. Fake academic credential,ominous ego-centrism, over-inflated sense of self-esteem,relevance,omnipotence & accomplishment. But unlike many egomaniacs, Wolter is not delusional,he is a business entrepreneur & unfortunately too many people are taking his mumbo jumbo seriously.If Wolter was only half as smart as he pretends, I would ask him to do my nails
Reply
1/22/2013 11:00:19 am
Tara,
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Tara Jordan
1/22/2013 04:12:03 pm
Scott. You dont have to be extravagantly smart, I am not blaming you for making money & being successful, but when you pretend to do ethno-anthroplogy & archeology,you need to know the basics. Personally (my humble opinion) I think Geologists should stick to geology, not attempting to rewrite history.
Paul
3/17/2013 01:18:56 pm
Ever notice the freemason symbol is an "X" separated and moved around. they call it the compas and square, but I say it's an "X" 3/24/2013 09:36:28 pm
@Scott F. Wolter -- you can "found things"?
Terry DIxon
4/10/2013 11:35:44 am
The ruthlessness that academic researchers use to critique others research far exceeds the criticism Scott is receiving, as it should. For the most part the criticism of researchers is accepted by those being criticized as part of the scientific process to move closer to the truth. If a researcher's theory is wrong, the researcher wants to know as they do not want to spend their life, as they plan to do, studying something they know is not accurate. A person does not have to be a PhD to conduct competent and accepted research. Just in the martial arts where a black belt represents a goal reached (not necessarily retained in the present) the PhD represents the recognition of a goal reached documenting the person holding the PhD has reached a knowledge base and understanding worthy of recognition of being awarded a PhD. I encourage anyone who wants to conduct research, degree or not, to do so. If you have access to learning the scientific process out of academia, I would encourage it to increase acceptance of your work and decrease the chance that you will promote theories that may effect the well being of society. Study what is known about the topic you are researching; state your theory; identify criteria that support and reject your theory; create research that will have outcome that will either support or reject your theory; describe procedure that other researchers can duplicate to support or reject your theory; conduct the research: summarize findings; write your conclusions; submit them to the pubic for review: enjoy the reactions, pro and con to your research recognizing you have contributed to moving closer to truth and being comfortable that all assaults to your theory can be supported by your study and those who have led to your research in the past. 5/11/2013 08:01:59 am
Scott Wolter's illustrious doctor, I was reading your story about the Maya and Georgia, and regarding some of your comments I would like to mention that:
Jose Luiz Vieira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
5/11/2013 09:16:13 pm
Jason,
Ge
5/18/2013 05:34:32 am
Scott, I liked your episode on the possible burial site in the Mustang Mountains. But now, right after that, I just sat through your "Holy Grail" episode, after reading the summary description in Verizon's on-screen program guide. I don't know if they came up with this wording, or if you did, but it says your findings were "shocking." On the show, your search for the Holy Grail and for gold was a bust. There were zero shocking findings. One thing that was under your control was the use of divining rods. True, you initially described them as "controversial" (the truth is they have been debunked). But as the show progressed and you referred back to the "findings" of the divining rods, your disclaimer became weaker and weaker. Incredibly, even at the end of the show, after the gold predicted by the rods was not there, you would not admit they were a scam. Rigorous scientific training would have saved you from wasting your time on these. In sum, I'm a new viewer and I found your show interesting up to the time I realized that you cannot be a trained scientist. Now much of that interest has become doubt. We can't see what gets screened out or manipulated during editing. We have to trust you. But you can't fake your credentials and expect trust.
olga
5/18/2013 07:19:57 am
Mr. Wolter, the lady who wrote the text about her nails was not very smart herself. If anyone really watched the history channel they would have seen that you called several different experts to verify your findings. I found the show very interesting. Please keep up the good work!! Should look up Americus Vespuchi, not sure about the spelling. What you might find out about Columbus might be surprising. Good Luck!
ignacio
6/24/2013 12:25:47 pm
monte hermon (beirut)-Stonehenge (inglaterra)- salem nh (eeuu)- piramides del sol (mejico)... ?????? (y en el cielo el cinturon de boyero-bootes) 7/14/2013 12:34:32 pm
I feel that Mr. Wolter is passionate about a field of study that many are not familiar with. The possibility of a Pre-Columbian European presence in North America is a bit of a stretch but we cannot ignore the evidence;a lot of it is circumstantial and needs further scrutiny by credentialed scientists who use empirically supported evidence based practices to come to a realistic conclusion. Is it possible that a small group of English or other Europeans penetrated far in to the interior of North America? Perhaps. Is it also possible that a person with an understanding of ancient runes and methods of writing could have fabricated a stone or grave marker? Yes. We have to remember that "America Unearthed" is still a TV show, it is supposed to be interesting enough to make all of us tune in next week.
Jack Winters
8/8/2013 02:06:01 am
All I can say is degree or not, the questions that are being asked; and the exercise of challenging history and all of the s-called "academia" is something that more people should be doing. Knowledge is something that should produce a thirst; a thirst that cannot be quenched. I applaud this series and Scott for doing just that.
Gooch
9/13/2013 11:12:00 pm
I have watched several episodes of this show, and I have to admit that going in, I was very excited about the prospect of seeing mainstream overturned with hard evidence. At the end of the first episode, I was astonished by a few self evident facts displayed. Fact one is that Scott makes suppositions and only then looks for supporting evidence. Fact two- every bit of 'evidence' he thinks he has found is rebuffed or dismissed by the experts he consults even though they are carefully edited to seem more accepting. Fact three is that even after hearing that that there is no way that this 'evidence' is what he hopes it is, he states how monumental it would be if such a thing were true and states his belief that, "the door on this is still open" and the clip is cut before the expert replies,"No... it's not, and the evidence proved it's not." The more experts deny his fantasy, the more vehemently he asserts that it must be true! Science is the direct OPPOSITE of denial of the truth. Fact four- At the end of every show, not one question has been answered, not one piece of real evidence has been supported, and they continually fail to find anything they are looking for, and was sure was there, even after they used the dowsing rods to make sure it was there! Lol Fact five- Anyone who even allows a dowsing rod to even be mentioned in the same sentence as science, just lost all credibility. My first thought at the end of the show was,"What? They didn't find a thing! What a joke." I have to say I am appalled and ashamed by many of the comments on this page. The most important thing to remember here is that this man is a showman... and in the words of a far more successful showman, "There is a sucker born every minute!" I could really care less whether he has framed horse manure on his wall- the proof is in the pudding, as they say. Some of these view points of Scott's 'supporters' would be more excusable 15 years ago, but now the internet is sophisticated enough that nearly anyone can research any extraordinary claims themselves. I routinely double check everything I hear on both the Science Channel and H2 and I can tell you that the majority of everything on these channels is suspect if you are looking for unassailable and incontrovertible facts. These channels deal more with controversial hypothesis and conspiracy 'theories' rather than supportable scientific theory. That anyone in this day can seriously buy into 'ancient aliens' and such after actually listening to the poop which pours from their mouths with such side grinning conviction, makes me fear for the future of mankind. Intelligent people think about the future and straining resources and have restraint on their reproduction while uneducated people who believe exciting fairy tales multiply like mindless rats! Otherwise these channels would be too embarrassed to air such travesties of the scientific method!! If there weren't billions of suckers out there, we wouldn't have corporations gouging us and paying us dirt now would we? Or a top 1% who considers us all suckers...Anyway, this is the foundation which America Unearthed is built on... Our true history probably is distorted and missing many chucks of truth, but there is a good reason for this... there is no strong evidence to the contrary and because we've been foolish enough to allow the greedy enough power to distort the truth when it serves their greed! Science is NEVER based on 'could be'. I can tell you that any serious academic will dismiss everything on this show based on everything in it! How can I tell that? Because I don't have a degree either and even I find it embarrassing how easily people are taken in by this kind of mumbo-jumbo. I study physics constantly as an amateur and have for years, so I know that anyone without formal training in the sciences is swimming deep in a dark and forbidding ocean with little chance in hades of successfully navigating it. Higher knowledge is often incomprehensible if you don't have years of the proper prerequisites and it is also true that "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," because you will always draw the wrong conclusion when you are not in possession of all the facts, most of which are far above the average joe's head. The accumulated knowledge of the ages is so vast that you can spend a lifetime and never learn more than a bit of it, let alone break new ground. This makes it very easy to 'wow' and pull the wool over the eyes of the average couch potato that has not spent a minute in secondary education. My general rule of thumb is this... don't believe a word you hear from friends until you've confirmed it yourself or gotten the opinion of several people who are more knowledgeable than yourself, and don't believe a word of what you hear on TV- Period!! TV is fantasy land, not a substitute for college.
jessica
9/17/2013 05:10:15 pm
Scott,
Ann Adam
11/30/2013 02:46:45 pm
Scott ~ For you to encourage conspiracy theorists shows your overriding desire for monetary gain rather than any effort to research or educate.
Cly
12/7/2013 05:19:15 pm
Scott, I would say you need to be very smart, and understand local cultures. but this isn't really why I replied. I have watched every show, and did my on research. I try to understand these things but can't always come up with an answer. However there is one thing you mentioned on the show that is a fact. You were at those big stones in Georgia and it said the population would be reduced to 500,000,000. You ask a question: "How would this be done." After researching this I found the answer, and President Bill Clinton signed this agreement on behalf of the United States while in office. The United Nations Agenda 21 is your answer. it explains how the population of the earth will be reduced to a manageable population. if that isn't New World Order, nothing is.
George A. Wojtowycz
12/15/2013 08:39:31 am
Hey Scott, I've only seen your show 5 or 6 six times, but each and every time you never seem to find what you are looking for! Maybe it's because you keep making extraordinary claims about pre-Columbian links to European history that require extraordinary evidence you've no chance of finding!
Dr Dee McGarrity
12/16/2013 02:38:39 am
I am confused about a program relating to the Arc of the covenant. The Stone of Destiny that was referred to. If I am correct the Stone of Destiny is the stone of Scone upon which the kings of Ireland were crowned. The thing is that stone went from Ireland to Scotland for the same purpose, and was stolen and taken to England. In fact Queen Elizabeth (current) was crowned on it. It has been returned to Scotland and will reside there for evermore. IT NEVER LEFT THE BRITISH ILES. I have studied the history and even used it for a basis of a poem.
John Ballas
12/16/2013 01:13:39 pm
Tara, I think it is best to agree to disagree. Because I do know many who hold a Masters or a PhD. And they all think they know everything and believe there opinion is truth. These " know it alls " write the History Books we learn from. I myself have proven the History books wrong in my own research on a campaign during the French and Indian War. And also plan to solve an archaeological mystery about it. And I will do this with my PhD in using a metal detector. And Scott, if I find the "Ark of the Covenant". I will be sure to call you first. I would love to do what you do.
Mark McLaughlin
12/21/2013 05:33:15 pm
Scott
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12/29/2013 11:37:36 am
So psudo-science it is! the myan show plausible i guess logic alone makes that seem plausible. I mean if i was running a civilization in central america 1000 years ago I would follow the coast with expansion just for simple logistic reasoning trasnportation along the coast makes sense, beyond that you went into lala land a 12th centuary brit in arizona.... if you dont dig the body up then its just a hoax get the permits! do it. to hell with the permits just get a shovel and live up to the Indiana jones billing they put on you! life is not about following rules! next was the non fired clay tablet...... um umm no way it would survive 5k years simple rain watter would have whiped the slate clean in under 20 years even burried water flows threw soil and tree roots would have broken it up shoot smithsonian was right fraud! now if you want people to remotely take you seriously show some real Minoan script and same thing with the ingot sample you talk about but never show! 1/2 the dang show is filled with filler anyhow so dont tell us you did not have room to put in some relavent info shoddy work man very shoddy. The premise of the show is cool but you need to put some real science and some phds into it most of the people you interview are all sympathetic and seem scripted and look like they are a rung shy of imbreeding on the dna ladder. Do Radio carbon dateing on stuff if not then get off the air!
Paul Douglas Valentine
1/3/2014 02:44:36 am
I for one, Scott, believe you to be an extremely intellectual individual.
Virginia
1/4/2014 03:12:07 pm
Oh my goodness - I read a bunch of these comments and I'm not sure what all the negativity is about. Was the blogger in the running for the host spot of the show? Why so cranky? Hey, I have a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism that is entirely irrelevant in the digital age but GUESS WHAT? It takes a lot to host a show on television and speak extemporaneously while being interesting and keeping all the information together. I've done some of it and not many people can do it. It is far easier to blog :) and hide behind a blog :) and not put yourself out there for criticism, oh and we might also consider the kind of personalities who create blogs like this, with their pictures and "about me" tabs, etc. Fascinating phenomenon with regard to ego. I prefer to live and let live. No need to "out" anyone...but there for the grace of God, go I. And let's not forget that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. And let's face it - we ALL live in glass houses. Who among thee???? Jeez, I'm not even religious! I like the show. It makes me think about unusual things. So thanks, Mr. Wolter and wow, I am so, so sorry about your dad. That is incomprehensible on so many levels. 1/4/2014 03:39:19 pm
Scott, it is to bad that your show is full of BS, it had such a great appeal to the premise.
sayitaintso
1/5/2014 12:37:25 pm
Forget their negative talk. You are too handsome not to watch!
Trey
1/11/2014 05:31:59 pm
Jason,
Trey
1/11/2014 05:32:06 pm
Jason, 1/11/2014 10:36:12 pm
If I may, Trey, how does writing a couple of paragraphs a year ago constitute an obsession? Do you see it mentioned in my current reviews of the series?
Todd Venable
1/12/2014 03:06:12 am
HELLO Scott,
who cares
1/19/2014 06:31:12 am
Glad you only commented once. How much money does Jason make an episode on America Unearthed??
who cares
1/19/2014 06:38:59 am
Your show is like a jury trial: people are free to believe none, parts or all of your testimony to reach their own conclusions. I totally get the picture, some are less fortunate. Nevertheless, if people are hanging their hats on everything you claim to be true as part of your theories or research too bad for them and their closed minded experience or intellectual breakthroughs. More power too you and keep up the good work. Looking forward to snake mound as I can recall pitching this to History Channel.
.
1/19/2014 11:48:11 am
It appears Mr. intelligent ran out of gas. 1/22/2014 05:38:55 pm
I think all you have to be is willing and curious. I want to say to all you nay sayers out there that are so willing to run this man down without even knowing his side of things but judging him by TV are not out there trying to enlighten the knowledge of anyone. Sitting on your butts and not inspiring anything but misery. If Mr. Wolter inspires one child to be interested in something more than video games then he has got you beat hands down. So shut up and don't watch if you can't be anything other than a bully . As far as I'm concerned he and the HC got every single one of you to think and question and that is all they are doing . Know one ever said it was a show based on facts. It is a show to go and see things you normally don't see that are curiously there without a reason to be so. It is a learning opportunity for him and whom ever wants to watch to know more about your history and the continent you live on. So its not going to be factual when its all a guess. You still have to know where to go to find the answers to the questions posed and it helps if you have been exposed to a lot of people in the acedemia circle. I believe Mr. Wolter has proven he knows these people and knows how to do the research degree or no degree from a university that doesn't mean anything anyway.The degree he has does and his colleagues seem to respect the fact that he knows his rocks. What kind of degree do any of you have? Thought so!
Gary
2/1/2014 05:23:00 pm
To investigate archaeological mysteries, one doesn't have to be very smart But to prove them, one must be very smart, unless one stumbles on some previously unknown fact. I watch "America Unearthed" and find it interesting, but little is ever proved. Even the experts on the show discredit your postulations. I put it in the category of the many "alien" programs on TV, a lot of interesting theories, but little to back them up. BTW, you should improve your writing proficiency as well as your history knowledge.
Ms. JJ
2/6/2014 04:51:27 pm
I don't think the Scott Wolter from AU wrote the above comment.
BOBBY ILARIA
2/8/2014 11:11:46 am
HOWEVER, I 'CAN" FOUND THINGS! WHATS THAT MEAN? ANYWAY,YOUR SHOW HAS BEEN INTERESTING THE FEW TIMES IV,E SEEN IT.BUT NOW I SEE YOUR REAL INTENSIONS.YOU SOUND LIKE AN ACADEMIC WHO IN HIS HEART KNOWS CHRIST WAS THE SON OF GOD,BUT YOUR EGO IS ALWAYS TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE JESUS JUST A MAN. DONT YOU THINK THAT THE WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTIMENT WOULD HAVE MENTIONED SOMETHING LIKE JESUS GETTING MARRIED AN HAVING CHILDREN? AND BEFORE YOU ANSWER THESE ARE MEN WHO WALKED WITH JESUS AND ALL GOT KILLED FOR THIER BELIEF. THESE MEN WERE HUMAN LIKE YOU AND I, AN I WOULDN,T DIE FOR SOMETHING I BELIEVED IN BUT KNEW IT WASN,T REAL.THIS IS ONE MAN WHO MANKIND MARKS TIME BY.WHOM ALL OTHER RELIGIONS ARE COMPARED TO.YOU SOUND LIKE AN AGNOSTIC, RATHER THEN A ATHIEST.ONE DAY YOU WILL STAND BEFORE GOD THE FATHER WITH JESUS BY HIS SIDE AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE TOLD THE TRUTH. THAT JESUS WAS BORN TO A VIRGIN,LIVED A SINLESS LIFE. NEVER MARRIED OR HAD CHILDREN, BUT DIED ON A CROSS SO YOU AN I CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IF WE BELIEVE.I COULD GO ON AND ON SO I,LL STOP WITH THIS.ONE MAN SAID TO ME.I KNOW IN MY HEART AS WELL AS MY MIND THAT THE GOSPELL IS TRUE AN JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD.SO IF YOUR RIGHTSCOTT I DIDNT LOOSE ANYTHING BUT IF IM RIGHT THAT THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IS TO BELIEVE THEN YOU LOST EVERYTHING. YOU MIGHT LIVE A DAY MORE OR MAYBE YOU.LL BE BLESSED AN LIVE ANOTHER 40 YEARS BUT EITHER WAY YOU WILL DIE AND HAVE TO ANSWER.
Steven Knivila
2/8/2014 01:47:26 pm
So you were an investigator at the Pentagon for 9/11? Now you have a television show? Paid off quite well I'd say. Where were the plane parts and what the hell happened with Building 7? That would be a much better show.
Don Orlovsky
2/9/2014 08:19:09 am
I enjoy America Unearthed--its a good show which I find to be entertaining and somewhat informative. I also find that some of the positions advanced by Mr. Wolter stimulate further inquiry. Whether he received an honorary masters degree or whether he neglected to correct an obvious typographical error in an email is quite beside the point. I do not believe someone with Scotts background would write such a paragraph. mainly I believe he would list his credentials and back up his statements not just puke them out.Also if you actually try to retype this you have to make the mistakes on purpose. Well at least on my computer, when I tried to retype the exact same thing "Scott" was suppose to have wrote the Grammar and spell checker kept correcting the errors. Its sad the people on this page are so angry , because there is someone out there who thinks we have it wrong. Your kidding me someone may have history wrong. At this very time President Obama is trying to have or schoolbooks rewritten with a left leaning overtone to insure that the massive debacles under our very liberal 20th century government are not passed on to our children so that they to can make the same mistake that has been being made for 2000 years all the way back to the roman empire.
Jason Rumsey
2/20/2014 07:07:08 pm
Hey Scott, I have just started watching the show and I have to say it is interesting to say the least. The thing that constantly baffles me is that you of all people should know the government will never let you get the "Real" truth out there, EVER. That is the way of the world and of the persons placed in power, always has and always will. I am a retired U.S. Army SGT that served for 10 years and 3 combat deployments so I know what I am talking about when it comes to government cover-up's and the like. These people will deny you because they can not or will not let the truth come to light, the ramifications of the things you investigate are far too important to the persons in power and control of this government. I do have a propitiation for you though, if you run into areas that you have been denied access I can get in, get the info and get out without detection, it's what the government trained me to do. So let me know if you could use the assistance. 2/22/2014 02:52:37 pm
Scott: Read the Book of Mormon. Not for the religious aspects, but the belief that the Polynesians started in the Old Word and settled across the islands and Mexico.
Cathie Prosser
2/27/2014 04:32:20 am
Simple, some are gifted without earning a degree. What happened to on the site learning?
joe
7/3/2014 12:49:39 pm
Jason, have you put as much effort into determining Obama's alleged degrees, even though no professors remember him and he appears to have no college friends who remember him?
Richard
7/8/2014 05:52:42 am
Scott Wolter is obviously a charletan AND and idiot. Anyone who would seriously consider the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone has to have read the 1960s study by Theodore Blegen, for whom a building is named on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. In his account, Blegen relates evidence that not only disproves that the rune stone was written in medieval times by showing how the GRAMMAR used in the stone's inscription was a MODERN norse but he also shows hard evidence that several individuals perpetrated a hoax on the entire religious and academic community who had it in for specific people. It appears that Wolter is doing the same thing with his "leap" to presume the legitimacy of the rune stone in the face of such a damning study. Clearly his false credentials add little to refute my argument.
Asa
8/2/2014 08:47:36 am
A hell of a lot smarter than you Scott
Mitch Wolters
8/14/2014 11:49:42 am
The fact that you responded to this blog proves what a blowhard tool you are, that means you constant google your own name, you are the living personification of a modern day snake oil salesman. I hope you and your son get killed by a car driven by the producers of ancient aliens
Doc
8/23/2014 02:57:23 am
Who cares the show just brings possibilities to question.Alot of effort to try to damage a guy who is engages in a passion he enjoys and make money .(Someone sounds jealous) I reside in nj but grew up in my younger years in Long Island NY. I watched crew unearth tanks buried under railroad tracks in Central Islip.Why were they buried .I am talking Army tanks,they were there because they were loaded on rails for transport and someone left 3 behind so things uncovered just digging is amazing. Theres Gold 250 feet of Staten Island 40 feet underwater under rocks that haven't seen light .get your scuba gear
dean lawson
8/29/2014 08:32:36 am
Dear Scott I have some interesting artifacts you may find worthy of researching, I do not know how long it takes for sinew to mineralize; or if you can determine what animal it came from; but I have found stone tools that probably dispute the time frame for the earliest human inhabitation which is believed 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. I hope you are interested and reply . My number is 1 660 605 1771 or my son's number 1 660 605 2080. By the way; love your show
Brian Stebbins
9/11/2014 06:01:11 am
Hes just goin back to cover his tracks Jason, he would have continued to lie about until the evidence smacked him in his face
Mr. E
9/23/2014 10:52:00 am
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/scott-wolter-lashes-out-at-me-again-says-future-events-might-cause-him-to-sue-me
Jimbo 226SIG
11/2/2014 08:43:23 am
Right you are Scott. She's just another jealous, non-educated moron.
M. Gonzalez
11/8/2014 07:12:23 am
It's nice that there are still some smart folks in the world that can spot the mumbo jumbo. The America Unearthed episode on Stonehenge was a joke, just not a funny one. The show is garbage and H2 is going to garbage like most of the other "science" and and "history" based channels.
Jeptha B Cobb.
11/10/2014 01:10:05 pm
Well Scott. As a Doctor of medicine, my patients expect me to be capable of having at least a cursory degree of knowledge of the human body and mind.I would be ashamed to claim to possess a degree I had not earned. Have you even considered the damage, in misinformation
tlf
11/13/2014 06:34:50 pm
Scott, I enjoy your program. I like that you stir our thoughts and ideas. There are myriads of subjects dealing with North American geology and history that are left untouched for who knows what reasons. I like that you have the spirit of adventure and healthy curiosity to tackle these fascinating subjects, and present them in an engaging manner!
david, roth
11/21/2014 07:54:01 am
A good investigative reporter will not simply rely on information from the Internet. Apparently your argument apex’s on the reliability of Internet sourced information, versus literally contacting your research contact directly and asking him for his degree? Have you done that?
Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 12:08:45 pm
Doctor (or Master, or Bachelor, but more likely GED) Wolter.
Justin Little
12/6/2014 09:12:45 pm
Good evening Mr. Wolter,
septimius severus
1/5/2015 10:36:46 am
Dear scott, go back to school so you can learn the scientific method and the definitions of fact, evidence, hypothesis, and theory. MMMMMMMMMMMMMK THANKS A BUNCH!
mark
1/7/2015 10:32:33 am
Linda Hart-Hyde
1/23/2015 03:55:44 am
I am truly amazed at the negative remarks. Amazing how others want to attack the work you are doing. Academics is not what it is cracked up to be anyway. Many lack common sense. I am a non-academic gal who had a wonderful career in IT Technology and Management. I am not stupid. Scott, you keep up your goal of bringing viewers closer to history and geology. The combination of the two happen to be a love of mine. Keep on bringing history and forensic geology to your fans. I will try and keep an open mind when the Jesus and Mary episode. Keep up the great work!! 😃
josh sprague
1/24/2015 01:45:01 pm
first id like to say the show is great,this is meant to make people question what they have been told,it does that.second ,to all you scholars out there using the phrase pre-columbian discovery,how can you discover a country that was already occupied?
Sean
1/24/2015 01:55:38 pm
Hi Scott,
Jack Meove
1/24/2015 06:39:10 pm
Hi Jason, Hey!, I had a thought.... I want to ask a simple question to everyone here!
Eric
1/25/2015 01:45:26 pm
Scott,
Louis Sheffield
1/26/2015 02:39:32 am
Scott, what matters is that you get people excited about history and science. That's awesome. These people are fact junkies. So here's a fact. Cavalito, Tara and Richard LaFortune are all assholes. Thank you Scott for your efforts.
Linda
1/30/2015 11:05:42 am
Who cares if you have a handy dandy ulta-degree. You know what you are doing in forensic geology. I remember growing up and the cave on a part of the property was used for the Underground Railroad. Ohio/Pa border. My Dad never wanted the yard dug up! After the incident, I was hooked on geology and history. Whatever you are doing to create and feed into an exciting past time......KEEP IT UP!!! CONGRATULATIONS!
Mimi
1/31/2015 11:28:19 pm
Wow, I like the show but now I'm shocked. 1- SFWolter can provide his credentials. I think that would put all the education to rest. 2- one thing I believe to be the truth is; history is NOT what we've been taught.
Mimi
1/31/2015 11:32:23 pm
Here's something to ponder... Why aren't we allowed on government land? Does that land not belong to us? Regardless if we could get hurt. What ever happened to personal responsibility? Ya'll keep a pushin for more big government, soon they will be at your dinner table, literally!
sean
2/13/2015 02:37:48 pm
scott I think its clear with the stolen bolder thare are freemason members possably the core of the group or something closer to the origine that comes from the disbanded Templars that is hard at work today to keep thare secrets possably living proff of offspring from not so godly jesus with a great deal of power in the united states
dave francis
2/14/2015 03:03:07 pm
Scott. Her bigger point was that it is clearly much more important for you to be found correct in your sometimes outlandish theories..and this is a clear sign of your egomania. I realize that sometimes in order to have a voice you need an assertive demeanor...but straight up in your face in clear violation of the scientific method is no way to ensure your place among the scholars. The show tells me that just like a Bigfoot chaser or UFO enthusiast...you tend to embrace any leads or ideas that enhance your own sense of dirrction. Also..to lie about your credentials immediately nullifies you from any name of scientist and reduces you to what you truly are. ..an entertainer and fraudster hiding under the long established skirts of the scientific method and those who have actually earned the right to voice their opinions.
John Baxter
2/27/2015 12:05:48 am
The smartest men in history didn't rely on a Vatican education. Scholastic memorizing does nothing for society but to be a better slave to the system. People like Scott are breaking out from being a slave. No one will teach you because they don't want you to learn. In fact most of the stolen records sit below the Vatican and for thousands of years thats where the worlds knowledge is. Thats why they control religion and every other part of our life. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates didn't finish college. Are you going to discredit them? College means nothing in this world, just that you were a slave to an education system that is meant to enslave ordinary man. Tara, there are no archaeologist that could fit your concept of what an archaeologist is. The will simply follow academia and discredit anyone. Tara your world is still flat youre living in an ancient time where knowledge was not given to you. Again Scott its not the critic you counts but the man in the arena. I would take this as haters trying to knock you off your horse.
SonofMan
2/27/2015 11:11:25 pm
We need to speak Scott...meet me on facebook Sonof Mankind look for the ribbon.
fanowolter
3/1/2015 02:47:34 pm
You tell em scott! Love the show and youre work! I have a suggestion to silence all your critics and naysayers. This is what i do. Im frequently contacted by individuals in my line of work that want me to send them my resume ALONG w references. In the past, ive done this a few times to only be then given further runaround or not hear anything at all. My solution? Now when i'm contacted i say SURE! Id LOVE to send you that info. Im gonna need $100.00 NON REFUNDABLE to do it. Since youre now famous (which is a big reason why i suspect youve acquired naysayers) you could charge, hell, $1000.00 if you want????? Its amazing to me you find out VERY quickly who is a jackass wasting your time or who is actually willing to put their money where their mouths are... CHEERS! keep up the good stuff!!! 3/3/2015 08:39:30 pm
You come off as a sensationalist reporter. I think most of your stuff is made up along with other people that think like you. I believe you know very little about true history but I do believe you got the capitalist way of thinking nailed. That's right you don't have to be very smart. You just have to figure out how to take people for a ride for.
Rick Tobin
3/6/2015 10:49:35 am
Please contact me regarding the Peralta stones. You got snookered....but I have something else that might pique your interest.
Scott
3/14/2015 01:31:20 pm
First off, I don't think that comment is actually Scott Wolter. Secondly, either way he has a degree, and most things in life are learned and based off of experience, education only takes you so far. He is one of the more legitimate scientists out there correcting history. You cannot tell me you believe everything that was pushed down our throats from the same couple publishers who publish their own opinions as history. Draw your own theories in life, don't try to put others down and disprove people. If you spent your time trying to develop your own thoughts and theories instead of putting others down it would be much more beneficial.
Dave J.
3/19/2015 08:40:35 am
Well, I can't say I'm intelligent enough to dispute Scott's findings. Although, my wife and I find the program entertaining, interesting, makes us think of what could be and what may be. Some of the most outrageous breakthrough's in science have been made by people who just asked questions. Many without Phd's, MS, BS or AS even. Now give Scott a break peeps. He has come out with some interesting questions and brought out some great personalities. With everyone commenting on this site 'negatively mostly' as I have scanned. Obviously Scott has at the very least has a following. More then many people have. And Scott doesn't defame, comment negatively to or about others. Just listen and enjoy the show at the very least. IF you think Scott is a 'con artist' or perhaps worse, the just don't watch the show, simple! " Let Ye with NO SIN cast the first stone! " ... I'm guessing as I read the comments that there are many 'virgins' without any sin! ?
Dolores
3/30/2015 11:11:41 pm
Hang in there Scott..your program is enjoyable and informative!
Zacarias Valles III
3/31/2015 12:15:11 am
Wow if that is great intellect the world is fucked.
lynette doss
6/5/2015 05:01:00 am
Are you people serious, you all talk about how dumb scott wolter is, yet you beleive heacrually responded toyour comments lol 6/8/2015 05:15:38 pm
Scott:
Sharon Anderson
7/8/2015 09:27:35 am
I believe in you. Da Vinci code. I'm from Ohio and seen serpent mounds many times. My grandfather was a free Mason and active in mtngs. Grandma was an Eastern Star. But never talked about it. Never knew what it was about. A boyfriend of mine, we were 19 at the time, was seeking to get into Masons, as his father had been one, but died when my friend was 12. Friend went to "classes" and had someone "introduce, or recommend" he enter. Saw his public coronation or whatever it's called. Once accepted he never spoke of it. This was in 1966. All these things interest me, because of correlations in my life.
Helene
7/30/2015 06:05:44 am
Hello Scott,
A. Hick
8/3/2015 12:09:08 pm
What's scary is that Minnesota gives out "professional geologist" licenses to someone with only a Bachelor's degree. This raises a question of how many states are that lax in licensing geologists, or is the field of "professional" geology (as opposed to academic geosciences) not equivalent to the fields of history or archeology? I can tell you that under no standard is a BA acceptable for consideration as a "professional" historian or archeologist.
Raymond D. Howard
8/13/2015 03:41:48 am
Scott,
David
9/9/2015 12:12:28 pm
Scott u keep it up history is not what it seems ,history changes everyday people like u standing up and saying wait this is not right and when u say wait a minute it encourages other people to prove u wrong to me this encourages science real science keep it up look forward to learn more from u...good luck
Krisi
9/16/2015 04:33:15 pm
Once upon a time, the world was flat. Once upon a time the sun revolved around the earth. Once upon a time we were the entire cosmos.
Gary--Retired NYPD
9/19/2015 09:05:45 pm
Scott---Once a "Liar" always a "Liar"---once You "Lie" about "Little Things" ie "Phony Honorary Diploma" You tend too always lie about the Big Stuff---I am surprised that the "History & Discovery" channels did not "Fire Your Ass" for lieing too them & the public
Michelle
10/17/2015 10:17:03 am
You all fail to recognize that degrees seldom have anything to do with intelligence and more to do with opportunity, financial ability, and the time that is also generally afforded also with financial ability and of course support from family. Some have been fortunate enough to have these things. I know many that would beat people with a Masters degree on an intelligence test, but don't even have an Associates degree. As for Mr. Colter, he seems to be very intelligent in my opinion.
Krisi
10/17/2015 01:33:58 pm
I believe drive and commitment means more than a slip of paper. I don't have a master's and I have an IQ of 160. I would put my intelligence up against anyone that has a piece of paper saying they studied one or two things. Life teaches us more than schooling can. That being said, I believe going to school does make you knowledgeable about certain things a layman like myself could benefit from. Scott has proven to me, personally, to be all he needs to be to do what he does. One thing I believe in is passion. It can take you further than many things.
Eric Mosby
10/18/2015 12:08:09 am
Scott,
Krisi
10/18/2015 02:09:01 am
Gooch, once upon a time, the world was flat. And ONE man said differently and was proclaimed insane. Once upon a time the sun circled earth. But once again, this was misproven.
Ge Ki
10/18/2015 09:27:06 am
Krisi - So happy for you that you have a "personal" relationship with Wolter, but the issue here is not "a slip of paper." The issue, which you'll see in the title of this page, is that Wolter lied about his credentials.
Ron L.
10/24/2015 05:10:16 pm
Scott. I know dome of the decendents of the St.Clairs who lived aroind the Tucson, Az area. There is apparently still some land that passed down. I have heard all my life about their French roots.
charles
10/27/2015 03:56:26 pm
Scott, why don't you tell everyone you are a jew before saying you are presenting unbiased evidence?
Bill
11/9/2015 02:55:11 pm
Well Scott as an archaeologist working for federal land management agencies for the last 18 years, w/ real degrees in Anthropology (that would mean, degrees that I actually worked for), as well as a minor in geology from the very same UMD program you went to, I'd have to say after all these years studying and working at archaeology, you need quite a bit of smarts to be adequate. Quite a bit.
Charles
11/9/2015 11:52:05 pm
Thx Bill; response from Scott?
Rose McDonald
11/21/2015 01:30:05 pm
Scott;
Adam
12/12/2015 07:18:04 pm
Am I seriously the only one that doesn’t think this is actually Scott? Cheers for sticking up for him, but I really don’t think Scott would make that many clerical errors; even if he was angry. I highly doubt he would get angry over this article, especially due to how many times he’s been told he’s wrong. He probably just laughed and dismissed it, giving it little thought. Even so, that would suggest that he actually knows about it. I for one am not so closed minded as to think his theories have no validity. Science does prove science wrong all the time. Most people, I find, that disagree with at least the possibility of his claims, simply don’t like to think that they might be wrong.
William Harvey
12/13/2015 12:40:27 am
I think you're very smart Scott. I've learned so much from you that encouraged me to do more research. I'm allegedly a smart guy because I have a BA and MA.
you can "find things on the . . . ." Smart enough to know grammar when you write your own stuff instead of relying on someone else. I have learned so much from America Unearthed. I have to give Mr. Wolter credit for brining controversal concepts to the p
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Diana Lee-McAnsh
1/28/2016 11:42:28 am
I watch your show, interesting information comes out of it, and I see places I do not have the money to visit. Have known some truly intelligent people who did not have a degree, however their personal research/conclusions were compelling. You do say you are a forensic geologist which is unfortunate because I'd find your interest, research and ability to visit sites enough to watch your show.
Diana Lee-McAnsh
1/28/2016 11:53:32 am
It's unfortunate that in our society one has to have a PhD in order to satisfy the requirement of study, research and investigation into a subject. I'd much rather watch a program where the person has a genuine interest rather than a PhD with an attitude of enlightenment, example Zahi Hawass a dogmatic, whose attitude is set in stone, who refuses to acknowledge new information or pioneer new research.
Paula Nesiba
1/29/2016 05:03:52 pm
You tell her Scott!! We love you and your show! Alot of people gain knowledge from their passion, and we gain alot from your passion!!!! Thank you!
Barry
2/4/2016 03:24:22 am
I love the H2 show and Scott's investigations into history.
bennett
2/12/2016 12:34:42 pm
Scott were is your program in 2016 ?
Steve
2/24/2016 07:09:31 pm
Jealousy motivates life losers to opine until they feel better.
Working class stiff
3/30/2016 12:24:15 am
Albert Eistein failed math (acueman/academic math) but on reflecting on other mathemacians' papers and letters - well his story is also history. Or will you prove he failed to be what he claimed as well? Many people of walks of life accomplished their (our) greatest works withoout your, or an accredited schools' approval. We can always review their claims too if you insist. But, for me, after considering my observations of tens of thousands of new photos of earth and lost documents, suspect we should focus on digging up historical facts,,,, not dirt to slander someone doing good.
Don't let the B@@@@@@s grind you down, Scott. Y9u do a good job on that show, and if you have no right to be there, then Obama, born in Kenya and financed and appointed by the CRIMINALS (LIKE MOST OF HIS PREDECESSORS) had no right to be President.
Paul Kearney
5/16/2016 10:42:00 am
Scott do not let these people let you down, because therehave been far more discoveries/inventions created by those who never got the pat on the back a degree actually is. By the time I graduated high school I had plenty of college credits already, and two years in the armed forces, a Governors scholar, etc, blah, blah. The first thing I learned about college and university smarts is it will rarely translate into 12 inches beyond the door out. I mean Dubya graduated from an ivy league school. In the real world, doing real things, for the love of that knowledge sought, that is how the magic happens.
Nelda Smith
5/17/2016 02:23:52 pm
I don't care about any of this silliness over "Honorary Degrees"! America Unearthed is an amazing program and I cannot wait for the next season! Thank you, Scott Wolter for providing decent, thought provoking entertainment! I give a an A+!
Blayne
6/18/2016 04:41:16 pm
What do you know about the petradox stone?
Meredith Landers
10/20/2016 02:40:29 am
It amazes me how much time people must have on their hands. Why else would have the spare time to be so concerned with whether someone has an honorary degree or not. Who cares? I honestly can't fathom why it's of any consequence to anyone, especially if they don't even know you, and aren't directly impacted by the validity of lack thereof, of such information. Wow! The internet has apparently created experts on most ANYTHING under the sun, as well as commentators on just as many subjects! How intriguing that some of the people on this site are experts in not just one, but multiple disciplines: Education, Geology, Vocabulary, and perhaps even nails, just to name a few that stood out in just the first few posts! Just for fun, I thought I would point out that the use of the word "found", can be that of verb or adjective, which obviously changes not only the spelling of, but also the meaning. So, before someone slams someone in a way that calls into question the intelligence of the other person, it may behoove them to recognize that they, in fact, are the one's that will be highlighting their own, or lack thereof, if they ate incorrect in their attack. My real point though, is simply to reflect my astonishment of how many people spend their time trying to tear someone down, or even worse, perhaps try to damage the professional reputation of another, despite not gaining a thing by doing so. If you don't like the show, or feel that you cannot trust the subject matter reflected by host, turn the channel & get a life! Don't you people have anything better to do with your time & energy? I never had any reason to have to occupy so much time, before having surgery. I could have lived my whole life without seeing how much time people apparently like to spend attacking someone, instead of going out & investing all of their energy in things that further their own success. Generally, behavior such as this is reflective of one's own lack of pride in their own accomplishments, or self-esteem. So, one may want to consider what they are actually revealing about themselves, the next time they may feel compelled to launch their next attack on someone who is simply minding their own business, making a living. Personally, I have seen the show few times, and what I found to be most interesting & compelling, was the realization that not everything we are told is necessarily factual, and we should challenge the validity of any history that may have been inaccurately reported for one reason or another. The show simply seems to encourage & even compel intelligent people, with a thirst for knowledge, to continue learning about the very foundation of this great country-quite literally, the foundation. That should not be threatening to anyone! At worst, nothing in the show could be true. If that were the case, no harm done. So, what on earth is the big deal? What could possibly be SO important, as to require someone to write an entire blog, solely dedicated to the disparaging remarks about one human being? If people spent half as much time & energy toward making a living & improving the lives of their families, they would have a whole lot more to show for their lives, at the very end of it. I've NEVER heard of anyone saying, on their death bed, how they wish they had spent more time & energy criticing people whom weren't in the least bit impacted by them whatsoever. I for one, cannot wait to go back to work, and back to the world of oblivion to all things unimportant. I just happened to run across this website because I had a genuine interest in learning a little more about Forensic Geology, simply because I have become friends with a Geologist, and wanted to become more knowledgeable about the subject, so we could have more interesting conversations! I never knew that the study of ROCKS could bring out the worst in people! Personally, I would think one may be about as dumb as a box of rocks, to think this warrants so much misspent time & energy, if I were one to judge other people's intelligence, based on the lack of logic & productivity expressed therein. I can only say in conclusion, however, that when we know better, we do better. That being said, perhaps, those who have made a habit of wasting time & energy attacking people they don't even know, will have found a much more fulfilling & valuable hobby. One can only hope.
Karen
10/30/2016 04:55:26 pm
Someone always has to put their 2 cents in there. I like what he has to say. Makes me interested and I can understand it. So whether he has credentials or not, he has drawn me into the history channel. Thanks Scott!
Dave C
11/10/2016 01:56:21 am
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein
Heather Green
11/10/2016 12:37:42 pm
Scott, as a scientist who spent many years in the entertainment world, I know you have little control over the content and editing of your show. I found the show to be fun and a source of information that I wasn't aware of before. I don't really care about anything else, as I never allow a television show, created for entertainment, to be my sole source of information. (Which would explain why I'm back in graduate school at age 54!) Thanks for some fun adventures!
D Mack
11/23/2016 09:09:46 am
Just now checking this string... Well it's like the Sun rises in the East, Sets in the West.... Geo-archealogy explains itself..... As do stones tell the story. Hang in pal! Never stop asking NEW QUESTIONS. Hopefully, this really is you. Rock on! Mr. Scott Wolter ~ I just hope this response reaches you as I do wish to commend you on one thing.....believing in something that goes beyond that which has been written and given to us to believe. My curious and doubting mind began to question many things when I was quite young {actually grade school when I "suggested" not all the Indians come over on the Berring Strait}. I was told by the astute teacher, what was in the history books was accurate and I was not to question.......That has been 60 some years ago and I still question and have learned not to believe all which was written or those "astute" teachers......You may not have perfect credentials or a perfect background, or the perfect ability, according to some, to "paint fingernails" but you raise questions and then set out to present evidence to support different schools of thought.....I have no artifacts for you to ponder over but I have a mind that has questioned many things for many years and your research has given me some satisfaction in many areas......I thank you... 5/31/2017 04:07:03 pm
Scott..I think your shows terrific and you have inspired so many young children to venture into your field of study. Degrees cannot match one like you who inspire so many young to follow your steps! Continue your great work!
Cole Harber
4/14/2018 11:55:08 pm
Scott, I watch your show and I agree with u on everything. Unlike what others are saying I think your smart.
Arielle
8/21/2018 09:32:31 pm
I love seeing your responses on blog posts ! I find them all the time. A geologist with an attitude! Watching your show as we speak right here in Minnesota!
Meg
8/29/2018 12:46:25 pm
I love your show. Personally, I could care less about whether or not you have an honorary degree. Every time I watch your show you inspire me to learn more. I've even used inspiration from the Alamo episode in an essay in my Texas History course. Keep doing what you do. You aren't here to be a debate. You are here to educate and inspire.
Diana
1/25/2019 04:10:55 pm
I think Scott asks some very important questions that should be addressed - he is not providing difinitive answers to questions posed but rather opening up viewers minds to the possibilities. It is important to not always go along with the status quo - instead be the salmon that swims upstream, using one’s own intellect and openmindedness to explore possibilities....or is the earth still flat?
Brent Holden West
1/31/2019 03:10:48 pm
Hi scott my name is brent west i am 32 yrs old. I am a iraq and afganistan war vet whom has been intrigued with history and researching it since I was just a little kid. I have personally followed your work for the last couple years and I must say I am also convinced there's a lot of Forgotten history simply due to man's violent nature and natural disaster. However I do believe the answers are out there I do believe in the idea that the Vikings discovered more of North America than we previously had believed. I am also deducted a lot of research on my own which I believe that the Knights Templar actually had derived from Vikings. I believe that the room Stone that is known as the Kensington runestone was in fact written by the nights of Christ who i belive are the descendants of the Templars after there fall in France the early 1300's. I have a whole lot more to add to this but I do not wish to share all of it over the internet at this time. If you would be intrested in hearing more of my theory sometime please feel free to give me a call at 515 571 1441. PS don't let people who don't understand the idea of having an idea and developing a theory and developing the truth what really happened with solid evidence in scientific method discourage you. There are a lot of people out there that are not as enlightened as others around them. God bless stay motivated and don't give up the truth is out there. Humanity's future depends on it understand where we're going as a people we must learn our past we have forgotten or in this case
Valinda Miller
2/14/2019 07:37:23 am
Calm down all....this is not an educational collegiate class. It is a show to raise an eyebrow to a further possibility to question what Mr Wolters and the show are telling us...who, what, where and why!
harry
4/22/2019 09:03:00 am
Scott
Kim hobson
5/5/2019 08:39:00 pm
I believe in Scott as a sound, solid man of integrity. My grandparents, Lyman and Martha Hobson have a home at Templar Park, Spirit Lake, Iowa. They proved to me we were descendants of the Knight Templars, something I tried to dismiss. They were top leaders in Iowa. Scott has reinforced what they taught me.
Lane
5/15/2019 07:52:06 pm
The establishment drones are commanded to shout down those who don't drink the Kool-Aid. Tara is just one , having no real independent thought, she does as she is told.
Marie Marie Marie
5/21/2019 12:07:10 pm
Scott, I saw your program regarding Mayan Blue. You visited several Georgia sites. I wonder if you have ever visited Brasstown Bald. This is the historic marker. I find it interesting that the Cherokee words are so similar to Chichen Itza though the meanings do not appear similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasstown_Bald#/media/File:Brasstown_Bald_Historical_Marker_-2.JPG
Gm
5/29/2019 06:50:36 am
Scott, I assume you dont read this blog anymore, and that is completely understandable. It's my first time seeing it, first time commenting and last time to be here, as I can see Jason is just a seething competitor poisoned by endless envy similar to seen in Amadeus, whether fact or elaboration.
Robert Miller
6/3/2019 10:28:36 pm
Scott; Hey, I have enough brains for both of us. I am a true genetic Asperger's with a tested IQ of 180, I am descended from eight royal Nephilim bloodlines going back to Alexander the Great and king David of the Jews. I applaud the work that you do. I only have a BA degree and it is plenty. I have found that most scientists are clowns serving the perverted agenda of the Smithsonian, they know only what they have been taught, and most of that is wrong. You have the advantage of uncontaminated vision, you are willing to look afresh at things that have been explained away by the "experts". This makes you very dangerous to the powers that be, believe me they will stop at nothing to discredit you. False information is a weapon that has been used very successfully against the unwashed masses, you are threatening their monopoly on men's minds, watch your backside my friend. Let's talk sometime, I have lots of interesting theories based on a lifetime of research in many different fields. I am a complete racial mix, Miller is a Cherokee name, I am a direct descendent of Rollo, (Hrolf), William the conqueror. Henry II, Charlemagne, Alfred the great. Powhatan, etc.. I am a primitive weapons expert I write for the Backwoodsman magazine and wrote for Primitive Archer for several years. If you want to correspond lets use snail mail or something, many of my theories are hot , I have enemies too. I am 70 who knows how long I'll be here. Ha! Robert.
Bob Moore
12/8/2022 12:32:20 am
Scott,
netgk
12/9/2022 11:17:11 pm
Bob Moore - Yes, I think lying Scott Wolter (faked his Ph.D.) would be a great match for the Mormon Church (Gold plates! Wish I could show ya, but oops! I lost'em!").
Bob Moore
12/10/2022 07:59:33 pm
Netgk..... I truly feel sorry for you... you have no faith thus no hope.... you attack individuals of faith, those of us who do NOT need empirical evidence to support our faith which spurs hope... as you bash LDS individuals I must ask, are you also anti-Semitic? are you anti-Catholic?
Ge Ki
12/19/2022 03:26:07 am
Bob Moore - I have plenty of faith. I just don't have faith in poorly supported things like religion. My faith is directly proportional to the evidence. So I have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow, but even that could be wrong, so my faith in that is not 100%. I have practically zero faith in your Mormon myth, because there is practically zero evidence supporting it. If you don't value the ability to reason that your god supposedly gave you, that's going to cause you problems in life, and I have little doubt that it already has, whether you know it or not. 3/15/2013 04:18:43 am
This has happened to me. I hold a Masters degree or B.S. in Computer Science from Weber State University. I have main degree that I received in a little tie handed to me via graduation day and have copies of my transcripts. So this is not uncommon.
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Aaron
5/20/2013 02:53:37 am
I hate to have to break it to you, but a B.S. is a Bachelor's degree, not a Master's degree.
Michael J
11/25/2013 07:37:55 pm
So you have a B.S. in computer science ? Lol !
Peter
12/15/2013 02:20:17 pm
That's nothing, I have a B.S. in Building Sciences (Rensselaer) - which makes that... drumroll please, a "BS in BS".
Robert Goodyear
1/26/2015 01:19:17 am
".... Masters degree OR BS..."
Dean Thomas
4/27/2013 09:35:44 pm
OK, I have reads a bit on here, Jason, if you wish to downplay his finds, get out there and prove anything he has found wrong, in other words, shut off your computer, get out from behind your desk and investigate his finds, I find the show very interesting and I couldn't really care less enough to waste my time trying to discredit him, take a look at one of the more "respected" people in the field Zahi Hawas, there is a prime example of a "professional" attempting to not let people know the truth, I am a fairly intelligent person, I don't feel the need to attempt to prop myself up[ by posting how many pieces of paper I have bought, I watch the show for it's interesting content, not for someones credentials, seems like Jason and Tara have nothing better to do than be pissed off about someone's success that they wish they could achieve. Like I said, I find his show entertaining and informational.
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4/27/2013 11:31:36 pm
So the 60,000 words I spilled on this blog evaluating each episode of the show didn't do it for you? How exactly does one "disprove" non-existent finds? The Tucson Artifacts, for example, don't even say in their own inscriptions what Wolter claims they do. I translated one from Latin to show this. Is that enough for you? I searched the Jefferson archives for his alleged "mandate" to Meriwether Lewis to find Welsh Indians, and it doesn't exist. Is that enough for you? I visited Mystery Hill (America's Stonehenge) and saw for myself how the site has been rebuilt and fabricated in the 1930s. Is that enough for you?
terry the censor
4/28/2013 07:28:40 pm
@Dean Thomas
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 02:20:39 pm
Yes ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 02:20:54 pm
Yes ...
Wil Cymbrl
11/30/2013 02:03:51 pm
How interesting. I'm sure you realize that the burden of proof is on the person making the assertion. It's nobody's responsibility to disprove Scott Wolter's assertions, but rather the entire burden of proof is upon him to prove his argument.
Jason Rumsey
2/22/2014 04:40:40 am
I agree completely. Why would someone be so upset over something so trivial is beyond me. I have never said I have a degree but I will tell people I have well over 150 credit hours towards a degree from a University not a community college. The reason I don't have one is because of the numerous concussive blasts I have been in have caused sever Traumatic Brain Injury and I can no longer function the way I did before my deployments but that is not to say that I don't still try.
Rockin’ Rob
11/22/2014 11:00:42 am
I think Scott Wolter is hot!
Krisi
9/20/2015 09:52:29 am
Dean I feel the same. If he would quit sitting at his computer and get out there and prove Scott is wrong (I have studied another the last 30 years to know he isnt) then I might not laugh at this. This is one person sitting behind a computer filled with rage over his own inadequacy. He could get out there and do what Scott, myself or any other person that investigates, theorizes or probes, proves and disproves. But he'd rather spew hatred than truth. I say he's Catholic and can't stand the thought that Jesus led a regular life. He was wondrous and spectacular. But he was also a man.
Melinda
7/21/2013 03:27:43 pm
I'm commenting on original article, not on individual poster. If you were preparing a cogent court case, you would be ill-prepared. How familiar are you with websites vs. the 'brick and mortar' real world? They exist in two entirely different universes and a lack of communication would be a polite under-statement. It would surprise be not-at-all that discrepancies can and do exist. That is simply a fact of life. However, once we look at the specific Honorary Degree that Mr. Wolter claims to have received? Wow, I can easily imagine that in the very REAL brick and mortar world of Accadamia that it was considered merely a polite acknowledgement of a famous alumnus. The lack of official record presumably is an 'oversight', not dishonesty.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/21/2013 03:54:55 pm
Your comments are very well thought out and even handed ...
CFC
7/21/2013 05:08:29 pm
I would recommend that you ask the University what they think of his claim.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/21/2013 05:17:48 pm
I don't know any of the University of Minnesota-Duluth Administrators, but I am personally and professionally acquainted with Professors Doctors Matsch and Ojakangas ... and I am not aware that they have been scolding Scott Wolter either in private or in public ...
Constance Overby
4/12/2014 04:57:04 am
I agree with you, the show is interesting and makes me want to do more research. It's never a good thing to close your mind to the ideas of others.
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 05:18:32 am
Melinda, you have no evidence to "presume" that the fault lies with the university and not with Wolter. Plus, Wolter himself says that the "honorary degree" consisted of a couple of faculty giving him cuppa coffees with whipped cream. Somehow, Wolter thought this would be OK to put on his resume as an honorary Master's degree conferred by the university. Anyone who has been in grad school, and most other people, would know this was a ridiculous claim. If you still disagree, show me one honorary degree that has been conferred by a cuppa coffee, or anything like it.
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 05:29:52 am
Constance, sometimes it is a good idea to recognize that an idea is wrong. The flat earth is just one example. I would guess that even you have closed your mind to that idea. Maybe "closing the mind" means assigning it an extremely low probability of being true, because accepted dogma could someday be overturned. So in the case of the flat earth, it's extremely unlikely to be true. So it is with Wolter's use of divining rods to locate a supposed "lost treasure." In his show, he refers to divining rods as "controversial," when in fact they have been debunked. And on Wolter's show, they again fail. And look at how much time and money he wasted based on what the divining rods "told" him. So if kids see this, they'll think divining rods are a legit tool of science. Pseudo-science is bad for kids. And bad for adults.
Brian Doon
10/27/2013 06:16:16 am
Scott Wolter on the money. Have you ever been to the Native mounds in GA? Long begfore I ever heard of Scott I was struck immediaely by how much the mounds were similar to pyramids in Mexico and Guatremala (whereI have been twice. Then I saw somee of the statues Georgia found on the sites. Amazing coincidence or linkage? I go with Scott and I do not care if his degree is from the P_atterson, NJ School of Business Practice. So much of his presentations have been very poignant. While I do not agree with all of his findings he at least raises the contradiction. Skeptics who have never been to these places should keep their opinions to themselves. They think reality is in books. Two hundred years from now what we accept as gospel truth in physics, geology, biology, etc. will be considered quaint and archais. We will laugh at what we believed in 2013.
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Larry Sunde
12/14/2013 06:01:40 pm
I'm no expert but after watching a few shows I wouldn't hire him to do serious work for me if needed. I'd be scared that he would be digging on my property and see a funny looking rock and think it proves the Knights Templar built a structure on my property and wanted to do a excavation.
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PHILLIP
12/16/2013 01:55:53 pm
tara please do not misread this post as defending M,r Wolter I personally agree with you, he is a tool and the show is about as dumbed down as any so called " scientific docu drama" could ever hope to be. I do however feel that you have un fairly grouped many hard working and open minded non accredited individuals in your pseudo intellectual hooligan group but you are probably 75 % correct that does not mean however that anyone who does not wear an argile sweater and oxford slipons is a pseudo intellectual thug thank thoug for you obvious love of the english language, your ability to wield it is formidable :)
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12/30/2013 01:32:40 pm
Thank you Phillip.I do agree with you.Going through academic or scientific training doesn't make you "inevitably" smarter,but it provides you discipline & methodology.
Adam
12/12/2015 08:10:45 pm
Discipline is gained by determination; methodology can be learned anywhere; but passion is everything. My brother for instance, didn't complete high school, yet is now the VP of one of America's leading software developing firms. At 17 he read every book he could find on the subject, and 15 years of 80 plus hour weeks later, he proved himself. If not for passion, he would have failed. Now he makes just over $300k per year; which is irrelevant, but I'm proud. Likewise, I know people who have degrees, some from prominent universities, who are dumber than a box of rocks; admittedly, except for maybe in their respective fields.
Ge Ki
12/12/2015 10:50:08 pm
Adam - For the umpteenth time, this page is not about Wolter's lack of academic credentials. It's about him lying about them. I don't suppose you would approve of your brother lying about his.
Robert
12/22/2013 09:55:02 pm
Hi, I think that the show referred to a well known scientist when it came to understanding the date the kensington stone was carved. The expert claimed that the first analysis was incorrect because there is two layers to analysis of the two different types of metals found in the stone.
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joshua
5/24/2015 05:39:14 pm
scott none the less confronts histories or at least ideas that must be kindled again in out collective conscieness..keep it up scott
Santa Claus
12/23/2013 11:31:57 am
Hey Everybody , until you have your own show on T.V. give Scott a break , Sounds like your ALL JEALOUS ......
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Storm Knight
7/28/2014 07:37:38 am
The people who lied to us from the beginning are still around and will do whatever is necessary to shut up anyone who wishes to simply tell the truth to the public. It is clear that many of you have been thouroughly brainwashed. My own credentials can stand up to the strictest investigation. I would have loved to have had a chance to work with Scott.
Douglas Chilson
9/11/2014 11:41:25 am
Yep, A show he LIED about his credentials to obtain - which discredits his show, as well as himself.
Douglas Chilson
9/11/2014 11:55:39 am
PS - I sincerely hope you are not a Mason Scott, because EVERYTHING I've seen on your show with regards to FreeMasons is complete and total BULL.
3-D
12/29/2013 07:08:06 pm
I think he has a great show. But can someone tell me if it is TRUE ????? In his background he Had?? Supposedly worked for the government ?????
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1/3/2014 01:07:26 pm
@Terry Dixon. Absolutely,outsiders don`t have a clue about the predatory nature of the academic - scientific realm.If Scott Wolter & his brigade of lunatic groupies think some of us are "though",I respectfully suggest them to go through academic peer reviewing.
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Cindy
11/23/2014 03:20:23 pm
Tara, after reading your numerous posts I have come to the conclusion that you are one of those people that look down your nose at anyone that isn't "educated" to the degree that you feel you are. Remember hon, there's always someone just a bit more intelligent than everyone else. A professional student by some chance?
Bill Price
1/11/2014 03:41:14 pm
Tara your a pin head at best
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Kevin Kernitz
1/12/2014 10:59:53 am
Bill 1/12/2014 02:33:59 pm
Yes indeed,he received 2 awards for his "researches" on The Kensington Rune Stone & The Newport Tower,unfortunately proven to be hoaxes.....
spellchecker is real
2/17/2014 05:09:57 am
Bill,
Scott Wolter didnt find his collection he bought it.
12/11/2014 04:58:16 am
no I too noticed his one time self defence attack on the one person Tara. Scott Wolter is a fake a fraud and a JOKE.
Rick Rhodes
1/25/2014 06:46:26 am
and I have a great wish that I have found one investigative reporter with enough balls to tackle why we know nothing of Barack Obama's grades, college entrance exams, college work in any field. You seem to be good at wht you do, do something really relevant, one that could be a REALLY large hoax. Not small stuff like Scott Wolter. I mean, really, who cares if SW is a fraud, I'm more interested in what appears to be a huge, impacting fraud. Scott wolters is a fraud = small, non-impacting fraud. BO being one would be huge. so, you are either checken to look into, or possibly you did and nothing was easily found or nothing was there to be found. all are possibilities at this point since we, in mass, are clueless as to the Great One's actual academic credentials. Any reality to any academic prowess? Sure was not the case when we looked into W's or JFK's. No example of academic prowess was able to be found for either. I surmise this is also the case with BO, thinking we have the Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome going on, all but the innocent see clothing when no clothing is present.
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1/25/2014 01:15:42 pm
Rick, because of Jason blowing the whistle on Scott's BS, I no longer have to watch a show portrayed as fact when it is not. Jason has saved me a lot of time and the time of a lot of others. I agree Obama is a danger and SW isn't but there are plenty of watch dogs all over Obama lies and frauds already and that isn't Jason's expertise.
Tara I was going to write a large post to expose your ignorance and hate. but I digress.
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Albrecht Köhler
2/14/2014 03:12:51 pm
Thank you Oswald Bates for your input.
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2/16/2014 11:24:02 am
Tara: I would really be curious to know what YOU do. You must have at least a Ph.D in something to talk so disparagingly about the History Channel, it's programs, and Scott Wolter. Here's my take: I went through an Anthropology Dept. (90 graduate credit hours) at a prestigious university. They were NOT interested in students thinking for themselves, or outside the box. We were supposed to follow the "party line" (here defined by century-old anthropologists), and spit it back out. There is no way they would ever train or allow anthropologists or archaelogists on the department to investigate or search out new discoveries or discoveries gone uninvestigated. So who the hell is supposed to do that? YOU?? IF Scott Wolter wants to go out there and investigate, make hypotheses, etc., what's it to you? I haven't heard him state anything as FACT. So he makes some postulations---somebody's gotta do it. Most of the big discoveries in this world were made by men who went out, searched with a passion, and stuck with it until they finally found what they were looking for And, they didn't always have degrees. (example: Howard Carter and King Tut). Why are you so defensive and condescending about all of this. What are YOUR credentials?
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Jason Rumsey
2/20/2014 07:26:53 pm
So Tara let me get this strait, so what you are saying is that a person is nothing but cannon fodder if they don't have a degree given to them by others to show that they have sat through boring lecture, passed this lab and that and served the required hours of studying and stress. Your an idiot flat out. You should probably go back to school and keep learning the crap being feed to you, you are the cattle, you are the cannon fodder and you and everyone like you are the "Average pseudo intellectual hooligans" thinking that because you went to university and received a graduate degree that you are better than everyone else. Let's ask a simple question since your ssooo intelligent, what are you and all the others like you going to do when the shit hits the fan and life is no longer about how much you make or where you live and how you were brought up but how to survive when everything that you have and everything you have ever known is now gone. We will see then who the intelligent one's are and who is the cannon fodder, now won't we. I do see you and people like you lasting very long. AT ALL!
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Bella Jade
3/25/2014 08:58:50 am
Here is a bit of research for you, you pinhead, there is a fantastic little button on pretty much ALL T.V.s it is called a power on/off button. If you do not like Scott, that is fine. Turn the TV off or change the channel if you don't like him. I give this advice to all the other pinheads on here that are doing the same as Tara and criticizing Scott for the work he does. Many people just do not like the fact that things are not the way we were taught in school. I guess SOME people would rather keep the status quo and not have the option to learn. IF you or any of the others who are so quick to criticize actually watches the show, Scott actually consults experts in the different fields. Unlike you people who just uses your own limited knowledge to put another person down. Where is your proof that what he has found is false? Perhaps if you and the rest of the peanut gallery, got off your butts and do some ACTUAL investigative research yourself you will then be able to talk with some actual knowledge.
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JD Cline
5/20/2014 01:27:10 pm
Ditto Bella. What has hurt the Histoty channels credibity is the Ancient Alien load of crap. Not Scott. Icant beleive people can not see the fact that Bill & the umpa lumpa looking guy have a vested finanial in people swallowing their crap. They both publish magazines that pander to the audience. The history channel is essentially paying them to advertize. It comes on and I change the channel after puking.
Leah
11/23/2014 10:29:00 am
Amen Bella Jade.....You hit the nail on the head. If you don't like it turn it off.
Sherry
4/12/2014 04:07:14 am
At LEAST... He IS trying to get to the 'fact of the matter'... REAL TALK
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Dean Smallwood
4/12/2014 08:07:19 am
I had this guy pegged as a charlatan from the very beginning .
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Judd55
4/29/2014 01:13:01 pm
Hello
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Mary Ann Minnich
5/20/2014 04:13:07 pm
Job we'll done on the apron!
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tim
7/21/2014 08:43:50 am
Tara stop being truth hating cunt, go play with your rabbit, there's a dear xx
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Storm Knight
7/28/2014 07:29:40 am
If the others. The fearful ones who feel compelled to deprive humanity of true history would simply accept and admit the truth, we would never hear junk science. Only true science. Sarah Winnemucca had nothing to prove when she wrote of the giants living on piute land. She simply told the truth. The artifacts are still there for all to see. At least until the national park service closes it down. These are the people who need to be questioned concerning credibility. Not Scott.
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Mr. E
9/23/2014 10:53:45 am
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/scott-wolter-lashes-out-at-me-again-says-future-events-might-cause-him-to-sue-me
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Erik Moller
10/16/2014 11:33:33 am
My education includes a double bachelor degree from CSUH in Management and Psychology, along with a teaching credential and most a a Master's in Education from CSUS. So how do you explain the fact that I built the first working prototype of a electronic tire pressure monitoring system for Toyota
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John Von Bronzesnake
11/1/2014 05:20:40 pm
That has to be the most ironic post I have ever read.
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CG
11/4/2014 11:24:28 am
Tara and Jason, Go to your rooms and stay there until you can say something as smart as college freshman.
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jonny
11/22/2014 11:17:14 am
Yep. This guy reminds me of Giorgio Tsoukalos how does Ancient Aliens. it turns out his credentials are (from Wikipedia): "Tsoukalos is a 1998 graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, with a bachelor's degree in sports information and communication.[3] For several years in the early 2000s, before he made ancient astronaut research his primary career, he served as a bodybuilding promoter in IFBB sanctioned contests, including Mr. Olympia. He is fluent in English, Greek, German, French, and Italian." LOL. Not exactly experts.
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Robert Goodyear
11/22/2014 11:56:52 am
Jonny, I agree, but in my opinion he is not REMOTELY fluent in English.
John
12/16/2014 05:15:09 am
The first archeologists were not college educated, but simple treasure seekers. Barry Fell was in oceanology turned archeologist and has discovered some amazing things during his career. And anybody can question someone else's credentials, just don't ignore their triumphs.
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Daniel A. Ernst
12/20/2014 12:35:12 pm
First of all you all are more catty than a bevy of sorority bitches on a drunken Saturday night with no dates. Wait you supposed exports, (not a misspell), didn't have dates either. To busy with the Tidily Wink Championships.
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Robert Goodyear
12/21/2014 05:57:53 am
Daniel Ernst,
Septimius Severus
1/5/2015 10:40:43 am
by the way, the kensington ruin stone, still not proven to be real, i know you believe what you want to believe you rebel you, but dont pretend to have ever made any scientific or historical contribution to humanity. You havent. you're pretty much just a con man, conning the idiots of america and the history channel, which you change its name to Scott wolter and the toothless alligator hunter channel. NOW THAT'S A NETWORK I'D WATCH!
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Mig
1/13/2015 04:42:17 pm
The show is a bunch of bunk and hype. It insults the intelligence of anyone with a moderate education.
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Liliane Wills
1/24/2015 12:20:59 pm
Tara Jordan, you come across as an insufferable witchhh! I see you in my crystal bowl and you are one of those very ugly closed-minded, self important, and unloved academics. Keep up the good work...everything coming out of your trap reinforces the stereotype of the academic loser.
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Robert Goodyear
1/25/2015 02:46:12 am
Lilane,
Jack Meove
1/24/2015 06:40:58 pm
Hi Jason, Hey!, I had a thought.... I want to ask a simple question to everyone here!
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Aaron H
2/1/2015 11:17:14 am
Why would you contact the University of Minnesota to find out whether someone was awarded an honorary degree at UM-Duluth? They're not the same school. They're part of the same state system, but not the same school.
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John Baxter
2/27/2015 12:09:13 am
Youre pathetic. Just a slave to the system. Jealous. You probably made no money on your BS degree if you had one. Once you figure out what you learned in school was the wrong history, the wrong mathematics, and the wrong science you quickly understand, we are living under the empire. Where someone will discredit anyone because they are a critic with nothing to stand on. Youre one of those critics Tara. Enjoy your slave life :) Memorize those scholastic text and see how far that gets you. You must be a catholic and your kids probably get molested.
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Angle De Heaven
3/6/2015 09:53:01 am
Funny I wanted to look this guy up because some of the trash that is coming from his mouth. I see there are others who must be thinking the same!
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Dolores
3/30/2015 11:10:18 pm
"If Wolter was only half as smart as he pretends, I would ask him to do my nails" (You forgot the period to end the sentence Tara.)
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Brian Kinnear
5/4/2015 01:49:09 pm
This Jason Colavito is such a whine ass loser who seems to be very jealous. Why else would he waste his valuable time trying to discredit another. A true life and I wouldn't listen to any of his hatred. Sad dude, truly sad. Get on with your life and try to do something positive for once in your sad lonely life.
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Eric
10/18/2015 12:06:28 am
Tara,
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Americanegro
9/4/2016 12:13:41 am
Eric:
Ge Ki
9/6/2016 03:19:05 am
Americanegro - You got that right! Eric's FOS. 11/23/2015 02:13:25 am
Nasty nasty nasty. Whether he has an honorary degree or not, he doesn't seem any of that, but you do. Are you his x?
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Steve
2/24/2016 07:07:05 pm
Jealousy motivates life losers to opine,opine and opine.
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Carlos Fidalgo
3/30/2016 09:51:57 am
About Scott Wolter.
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Americanegro
9/4/2016 12:14:59 am
Muito bem! Obrigado!
Mark
5/22/2016 08:40:13 pm
so you checked the University of Minnesota for a list from the University of Minnesota Duluth?
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D Mack
11/23/2016 08:59:33 am
Just a cunning linguist, for this purpose will not due. Purposefully, inappropriate, purposefullessness That would be you. Before I read these words, bred of ignorance and bliss. I never knew Scott Wolter's name, Carried such gravitas as this!
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mr william
12/12/2016 02:40:30 pm
Welcome to all post of illuminati cult where all your heart desire are
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CE Lawrence
2/18/2017 09:21:16 am
A degree is a stepping stone, not a permanent position.
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Nancy Elizabeth Sinclair
12/11/2017 01:40:10 pm
Tara, Both Scott and Jason hold and have earned bachelor degrees in their specific fields;both have found their niche in which to use these degrees in business. In this case Jason started the kerfuffle regarding Scott's work opening his site to opinions of his readers. I understand he feels entitled to have his opinions posted, but this site lets others chime in with their views thereby inviting the web trolls who like to see their names on the screen and to continue an argument that should have never started. What a shame all are not at least a wee bit more polite in their posts. Ask civilized questions, do not resort to personal attacks, in that manner all will learn. Regards, Dame Nancy Elizabeth Sinclair
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agent smith
2/19/2018 08:09:04 pm
It is a well-known fact that Illuminati consist of Multi Millionaires,
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AAV AMPHIBS
11/14/2018 03:31:30 am
Good show. Not a problem for me in Scot Wolters credentials. I see a lot of arrogance aimed at his credentials from educated idiots here.
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Jennifer P
1/15/2019 02:20:28 am
Accepted history has been proven false. People that still want to accept facts as written in our history books will never be open to the possibility of a different side of history that could possibly be the truth. I appreciate any show on TV that questions what could be a different history then what we have been taught. Come on people, Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first European to discover North America. Could it be possible that other “facts” are also false?
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Alma
6/13/2019 08:10:05 pm
Who gives a hoot about degrees. Did Scott ask and question the BS about our history? YES. Did he bring geologist, scientists, archeologists and every day historians to beg the questions about the US...yes. He made our history easier to believe because our historians have it all wrong. We want Scott Wolters back.
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1/22/2013 10:49:42 am
Jason,
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1/22/2013 12:33:25 pm
Scott,
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Kristi DeRubeis
2/13/2013 08:25:42 am
Jason 2/13/2013 08:33:23 am
I just want to make sure everyone is aware that I'm not ignoring the facts Wolter presents. As of today I've written more than 20,000 words on the "evidence" Wolter provides, analyzing it against facts. That contrasts with only a few thousand words devoted to the production of the show and its star's history. His credentials are relevant only because Wolter claims that his geology background gives him unique insight into history and uses geology to claim a special knowledge of the past.
terry the censor
2/13/2013 03:41:00 pm
Kristi, you are implying that since science can't be 100% correct, therefore Scott Wolter's work is factual and scientifically sound. That's a bit like saying, baseball MVP Miguel Cabrera struck out 98 times last season, therefore I am a great baseball player. The conclusion does not follow from the premise.
James
6/22/2013 04:58:23 am
I must concur with much of what Kristi says below, however, I will take it a bit further. Let me say first, I'm aware that what I am about to say will bring scorn, derision, and personal attack. Bring it on. I don't care. People like the writer of this blog and his sidekick, terry the censor, like many supporters and purveyors of mainstream science and academia have become professional debunkers.They spend hours and hours on a site like this, writing "60,000 words" to discredit one man who is discussing things that they themselves have ignored or deliberately hidden from us, the citizens of America and the world. That, my friends, pisses me off. I DO NOT have a degree in archeology, but that doesn't mean I'm an idiot. Regardless of Wolters 100% accuracy (archaeologists rarely get things right initially) at least he is looking into things that mainstream says are "not real", misidentified, or contrived, IN SPITE of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Personally, I think Wolters doesn't go nearly far enough in his show. There is much evidence of ancient civilization(s) that were MUCH older and much more complex than the apparent pre-colonial European visitors. Take the ancient wall in Rockwall, Texas. Or what about Hueyalatco in Mexico. Jason, why don't you investigate THAT and tell me why since the dates of over 200,000 year old civilization has been confirmed independently by three different labs, is there no ongoing dig at the site? Why did the Mexican government shut the site down as soon as the dates were confirmed and why was Steen-Mcyntire discredited? Why is OUR government limiting access to sites in the US under the guise that they belong to American Indians (yea, it is the "new pc) when many sites are clearly much older? We have been told that the native people here lived in the stone age, right? The who the hell dug up the millions of tons of copper in the upper midwest? Where did it go? Why are there HUNDREDS of newspaper reports from the 1800s of spectacular finds in places like the Grand Canyon but the physical evidence has "disappeared"? You see, my friend, if you spent less time worrying about a show on the History channel that mainly delves into inconsequential travelings of Templar Knights or whomever and more time trying to find out the real truth behind the early history of America, I personally would find you a bit more believable. As it is, I think the time you have spent trying to paint Wolter as some kind of charlatan actually paints you as a piteous, self-serving, uninteresting, cyber-wannabe who has nothing better to do. That is truly sad. Wolter's show, when considered in the grand scope of what has been and what continues to be hidden from us is completely insignificant, however, its significance towers immeasurably over that of this site to which I have wasted my last second visiting.
terry the censor
6/22/2013 05:19:45 am
@James 6/22/2013 06:23:12 am
James, I've written 1,000 blog posts, dozens of magazine articles, and many books on hundreds of topics--including the Rockwall, Texas rock wall you accuse me of ignoring. That you have chosen to read none of this material before accusing me of ignoring or suppressing information speaks volumes.
Jason Akers
8/22/2013 04:13:59 pm
I would first like to say to Scott Wolter that I enjoy your show America Unearthed and your book The Hooked X. I am finding them both to be eye opening to our countries true past. Second I would like to remind Jason that history is written by the winners.
Someonewithalife
12/9/2013 07:45:31 pm
Jason, you sound like a jealous hack nerd that has no life. Please get one. Scott, you're on TV but you might not be the most formally-educated archaeologist or whatever. That's fine, because America's greatest thinkers and inventors haven't come from the college classrooms.
Trey
1/11/2014 05:19:06 pm
Jason,
Trey
1/12/2014 03:48:41 am
Jason,
Trey
1/12/2014 03:56:47 am
Jason,
Suzanne
1/19/2014 03:54:18 am
Jason, 1/19/2014 04:00:16 am
Ask yourself this, Suzanne: Why are OK with Wolter questioning others' opinions but are upset when I question his? The problem isn't that he's trying to do historical research; the trouble is that he does it poorly and lacks evidence for his claims.
Lora
2/3/2014 01:50:45 pm
Sometimes, I feel as though this blog is too critical. Also, at times, just downright nasty. Those of us that watch these shows on whatever channels are aware that they are for entertainment. I don't particularly care if someone has an extra "honorary degree." Mr. Wolter's shows are entertaining and informative, and open my mind up to many more possibilities, and isn't that what it is all about? Keep up the fascinating work, Mr. Wolter :-). I just think that in life, we should all be a little less critical of others, especially if they are helping and informing.
Brian Stebbins
9/11/2014 05:57:23 am
Hes just goin back to cover his tracks, he would have continued to lie about until the evidence smacked him in his face
Debi
2/14/2015 03:32:47 pm
I, too, was cautiously optimistic that this series would tell the latest archeological stories about this place we call home. I miss the History-Channel-That-Was.
Dolores
3/30/2015 11:32:04 pm
So Jason?!? Do you and your peers only acknowledge mainline (including but not limited to Ivy League Schools) degree programs?
Phil Troutman
1/22/2013 11:32:00 pm
I think it's a great show, Scott. I've noticed the first thing the skeptics do is question the background of those they disagree with in order to immediately bring credibility to the forefront, as opposed to maybe describing how the lines could have physically been cut into a Puma Punku stone.
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1/22/2013 11:46:33 pm
I've never questioned the fact that Scott Wolter is a geologist. This issue only came to my attention because I was unable to verify the existence of the degree after another commenter on my blog asked about Wolter's credentials.
Tara Jordan
1/23/2013 01:53:10 am
Indeed, by questioning the credibility of megalomaniac like Giorgio Tsoukalos, fraudster & plagiarist such as Von Däniken & archaeological luminary David Hatcher Childress,we are guilty of crime de lèse majesté. Keep up the good work Scott,your audience is only 3 degrees from being retarded
Tara Jordan
1/23/2013 03:31:31 am
Indeed Jason,this is your house, but why are these individuals systematically questioning your integrity & motivation?.If we dare criticizing them, we are labeled as intellectual terrorists & crypto Fascists. As far as I am aware they are public figures, some of them are celebrities,and they make quite a lot of money by deceiving the public. 1/23/2013 03:58:08 am
I'm not saying to avoid criticizing those who deserve criticism. I'm just asking that we avoid name calling and potentially insulting or insensitive words like "retarded."
Terry DIxon
3/15/2013 11:29:28 am
The issue that leads one to want to know the credentials the researcher brings to the table is the soundness or unsoundness of the researchers research techniques. I was not interested in Scott's background until I watched three of his programs. After watching them I came to the realization that the conclusions Scott promotes as fact are not sound because they are not in fact based on actual scientific principles and for this reason I sought information concerning Scott's background to determine if I was missing something here, some new scientific methodology, etc. Challenging research is the basis of scientific study- propose your explanation- then test it scientifically, then place the research, including methodology (so your study can be replicated and findings repeated or based on your own research, criticized for flaws in the study/explanation) and findings in the public domain for criticism, letting the results fall where they may. How can one repeat any of the "research" conducted by Scott when the only record of research is the description on the show? The information necessary to test a hypothesis by replication simply does not exist. I enjoy the show and enjoy taking shots at concluding statements made during the show. The fact that many emotions, as when he was told he could not visit a site to gather "data" by landowners, are displayed by Scott, raising the question of whether Scott has the "discipline" to study anything.
criticizing a critic
3/26/2013 12:19:17 am
commenting on the "lets keep this civil" statement: I believe civility was left out when you spent the time to attack and badger a man who has earned his own due time and time again
Gooch
9/14/2013 12:23:52 am
Hey Phil, You couldn't be more wrong in my case. I questioned his credentials AFTER I saw his farce of a show and researched what a fantasy it was. If you want to educate yourself further, learn from people who bring more to the table than a lack of evidence and faulty logic. What a smack to the face to all the credentialed people who have devoted themselves to facts and are the ones who truly did the decades of study and work that we all benefit from! The very same people you scornfully call 'skeptics'! People have been carving lines longer than they could speak a language. And unlike today, people 1500 years ago didn't have TV and internet to watch until they waste away, they actually applied themselves constructively to great things and took great pride in the quality of their work. I know that concept is incredibly alien to anyone reared in the world of corporate attrition where quality declines in proportion to price increases as a function of time, in a race to squeeze every last drop of blood from every last turnip out there... but I guarantee that if your "king" threatened you with a brutal beating or death for poor work, and you had nothing else to do all day for your 25 year allotment of life, even you could carve out an impressive cube. Those people were hardly cro-magnon after all... That was hundreds of years after Rome was built. Just because a couch potato can't do it doesn't mean a highly skilled and properly motivated artisan can't. That kind of logic is the same that convinces deadbeats that they are smarter than everyone else because they are practiced at lying to other people like them and since they scorn or deny anyone who is not like them, and since people who see through them, avoid or ignore them, they see no evidence to the contrary. It's ridiculous! And highly intelligent people tend to underestimate their intelligence because they fail to realize the extreme shallowness of the average consciousness who spends their evenings smelling farts with Honey Boo Boo. That such a show exists at all should be a shame for all of humanity! Keep on educating yourself... It's obvious you're neither a teacher nor a student.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/14/2013 03:49:06 am
Hey, Gooch ...
larry
6/12/2014 03:24:44 pm
Mr. Wolter, my question concern's the fact that on most of your shows you keep bringing up Free Masons that being said with you being a geologist why do you Keep bringing up Masons in history. Instead of bringing up masonary in the past why don't you take the time and research the Mason's of today and learn the truth before you start spouting off on TV. By the way I am a Free Mason and Proud of it.
Louis Sheffield
1/25/2015 09:09:11 pm
I find that most scientists, especially geologists and paleontologists are whiny little bitches. Those who don't have discoveries of their own spend their time trying to discredit others. I think Scott Wolter's work is a great example of what science should be. Keep up the good work man and don't let the little bitches like Cavalito get you down.
Mauricio Do Carmo
2/5/2013 04:15:14 pm
Scott,
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2/5/2013 10:32:40 pm
Mauricio,
Jeremy
6/7/2013 12:40:46 pm
I enjoy the show. Sure it is sensationalized... Most shows are. Some of the facts are sketchy yes. Maybe even completely untrue, but according to the show, the science has proved some of his claims true. Schools still teach (the ones in my area anyway) still teach that Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas, but he wasn't. Leif Erickson was. There was a Viking settlement in Newfoundland and it is the rumored Vinland... If that is true, then the Vikings and Leif Erickson were here almost 500 years before Columbus. But anyone with a brain knows this. I do believe there is a lot of history that we do not know, even in this country... I also believe no everything is correct. There are to many dependencies throughout history. It makes you think and it makes you challenge what you were taught. I think we need more shows like this and less of brainless reality shows where there is no thinking involved.
Bimmerella
9/17/2013 08:37:11 pm
Maricio....as an aspiring historian, I'm going to suggest you do some research on what you accept as proof. Regurgitating what you hear, doesnt make you a historian. Asking questions and compiling what is known is a good start. Problem with Mr Wolter's theories, is that when you compare these claims with what is actually known, they just fall apart at the seams. How do I know? Because I wasn't satisfied just taking his word on known history. Neither was Jason, which is why he writes about it. Took me about 5 minutes to appreciate that my questioning nature, was right on. Don't worry, I researched Jason's arguments as well, and they held very nicely. I decided a long time ago to base my beliefs on proof. Anyone who asks me to do otherwise is up to no good. Aspire to find your own answers. Not just spew out what you heard on TV. If it interests you, look into it for yourself! That is how discoveries are made. Not by just following opinions of a guy on tv that seems to know his stuff. Don't sell your own intellect short! 5/31/2018 10:56:25 am
If you own a blog you know the importance of keeping your blog fresh and your audience interested. It can be challenging to come up with blog posts that won't bore your visitors and is interesting enough to keep them coming back.
Kathleen Cooper
3/10/2013 05:26:42 pm
Don't stop doing what you're doing Scott. I've watched the "academic" community trash Robert Bauval and other that are trying to get history written properly. You degree or lack of one doesn't matter, you have backed up your hypothesis with valid data and have been willing to be wrong in front of millions. And you have been right most of the time. I think the Venus angle has moved in the time since the building was erected, like you imagined on the episode. It's just too bad that people out there want to remain in the dark and pretend that history is all correct at this time. Keep up the good work. It galls me that just because the Templars might have been here first you have to trash someone???? Get a life. There were plenty of people here before Columbus.
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Kathleen Cooper
3/10/2013 05:31:08 pm
The previous reply had two typos and I didn't want anyone thinking I was too illiterate to spell correctly - so I've corrected them. LOL
Roger Wilson
3/18/2013 06:08:21 pm
I'm sorry, Scott Wolter has NOT backed up any of his claims with data. I just watched the Templar Grail Or Maybe Treasure Or Maybe A Castle Too in Nova Scotia. What a pile of steaming pseudo-science. He looks at a cleaved boulder and claims--with no supportive analysis--that it could be part of a Templar castle. 3/27/2013 01:59:58 am
uh, yeah, like 100 million Native people - and my people have been here for 10,000 years, thank you very much
Bimmerella
9/17/2013 09:06:26 pm
Kathleen...I fail to see one shred of valid data. Hypothesis, yes....beyond that pure speculation. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I don't have a problem believing something if there is real quantifiable proof. I get a little pissy when people take issue with folks not believing something unless there is proof. Here we are to discuss the proof or lack of it. That's how I landed here. Because I questioned what didn't seem legit to me. Jason has laid it out very nicely, why he feels it doesnt wash. Backed it up too! And hell yes I checked out what he said. I only choose to believe what can be proven. Doesnt mean I don't enjoy theories, or imagining what might have happened, but touting unproven details as fact, using shady pseudoscience as proof, well that isnt just flawed science, its dangerous. Our dogged pursuit of answers to our questions, is what keeps us moving along the evolutionary chain.
Ken
3/23/2013 01:42:40 pm
Scott, do not argue with a fool; someone observing the argument wouldn't be able to tell the diference.
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Alan
7/12/2013 05:01:38 pm
There weren't millions of native americans in pre-Columbus America. There aren't evidence of large societies or large farming and food production to support those numbers. Charles Mann writes in his book '1491', "that looking at America based on land mass and fossils and determining the large occupations numbers of being 10-20 million; is likened to looking at an empty bank account and saying, there must have been several million dollars in this account at one time". No large food production and storage capabilities have ever been found.
Del Ehresman
3/24/2013 07:05:40 pm
Scott:
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5/18/2013 04:31:32 am
I think a lot of you are forgetting that the company Scott was working for placed the Honorary Degree on their website. Without explanation this could seem suspect until further explanation. 5/18/2013 04:33:33 am
I think a lot of you are forgetting that the company Scott was working for placed the Honorary Degree on their website. Without explanation this could seem suspect until further explanation. 5/18/2013 04:33:52 am
I think a lot of you are forgetting that the company Scott was working for placed the Honorary Degree on their website. Without explanation this could seem suspect until further explanation. 5/18/2013 04:35:18 am
I think a lot of you are forgetting that the company Scott was working for placed the Honorary Degree on their website. Without explanation this could seem suspect until further explanation.
Brent
3/29/2013 08:34:34 am
My has many times called me a genius.
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michelle pinto
4/20/2013 09:30:34 pm
Dear Scott,
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Jane taylor
5/1/2013 03:04:07 pm
You deserve all the degrees you earned, but I want to add a degree for explaining your theories in such a wonderfully delightful way.
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Aaron
5/20/2013 02:50:21 am
"Science Show" LOL 5/4/2013 06:59:12 pm
I love "America Unearthed." I have watched each episode with great interest. As a 45 year old man I realize that television isn't going to be perfect and that editing is going to be, for the most part, sensationalized.
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Michelle
2/14/2015 12:42:21 pm
Scott,
R.J. Smythe
5/18/2013 03:53:08 am
@ Scott F. Wolter: You sir are a liar who has been committing a fraud upon the public. It is possibly even a case of Criminal Fraud as you have been claiming a degree for professional purposes to which you have no academic claim. Your claim to an "Honorary Masters Degree" has no more validity than if I as an Anthropology PhD candidate who has decided to remain ABD were to attempt to profit financially and professionally by claiming to be a Professor of Anthropology. The title of Doctor can only be used if one has OFFICIALLY been conferred a Doctorate. As I choose not to defend my dissertation I cannot in any legal sense call my self a Doctor of Anthropology. Regardless of the so called "honorary Degrees" someone lauds me with while having a cup of coffee.
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Michael Shehan
6/18/2013 03:41:22 pm
Mr. Wolter,
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Michelle
2/14/2015 12:43:49 pm
Well written Michael
Bruce Hedquist, P.L.S. (Ret.)
7/12/2013 08:41:07 am
Scott, I've been watching your TV program "America Unearthed". I enjoy it immensely! I've also done some research on your past. It's quite interesting. I can relate to your "honorary masters" degree. I've also struggled to get not one but two different M.Sc. degrees over three decades with no more than transcripts of engineering and science courses amounting to five plus years of full time graduate studies, incl. many pre-doc courses, but no degree! I also liked the article about you written in a 2001 UMD alumni newsletter. Scott, keep up the good search. Screw your detractors!!
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Lynn Robinson
7/12/2013 09:16:27 am
SCOTT, one of the first things MY professors shared with me and my fellow grad students in cultural anthropology, is you must publish (not for the general public) but in the scientific journals of your peers. Hence, interactive scientific discussions can occur...giving one a yea or nay to one's work...New ideas can be shared that you may not have thought of or your peers haven't thought about. Not to mention, even being published in a journal gives the scientist more credence.
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7/12/2013 10:00:03 am
Wolter has stated that he has created his own peer review process for his work. He has not published in academic journals about any of the subjects he discusses on his show.
joe
7/3/2014 01:06:16 pm
Is there any doubt that Jason Colavito is a liberal? As such, he is unhappy, unattractive and simply angry. Think Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Weiner or any of the other hideously ugly and horrendously hateful people who call themselves liberals. For sure, Jason Colavito is jealous and angry that he, a hateful libtard, does not have his own TV show. At most, a few thousand people read this idiotic blog, while millions watch Wolter. If I found out that Jason killed his gay lover after a night of binge drinking, I would not be surprised in any way.
Lauri Boivin
7/13/2013 10:50:32 am
Hi Scott,
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Harold Fleenor
7/15/2013 09:45:31 am
Scott, Just a few words of encouragement to keep up the work. I live outside Louisville, Ky and have always been fascinated with our own local legend of Welsh Prince Madoc, Sadly I recently ran across a statement that the state of Indiana has declared that any pre-columbian discoveries were not to be presented as such, Such a prohibition is ludicrous in the extreme, and sounds like the last shriek on the retreat against people like yourself who are attempting to uncover the truth, Stay the course,
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stephen
8/23/2013 04:56:24 am
Scott,
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Ge Ki
8/23/2013 08:25:57 am
Stephen, allow me to speculate: Scott Wolter didn't really believe that the Holy Grail was there in the first place. He knows his "research" is full of crap (divining rods! - need I say more). So Wolter stopped digging because he knew he had enough video for a crappy show. Anybody with solid evidence would not have stopped. Even if they ran out of money, they could have raised more with solid evidence. Would Verizon pass up the chance to sponsor the discovery and world tour of "The Verizon Holy Grail"? Heck no.
Acteon
8/23/2013 09:34:59 am
Hello,
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8/24/2013 07:22:23 pm
I fine it very frustrating that people question that Europeans and others made their way to North and South America long before Columbus. A lot of societies were very accomplished seafaring peoples so why wouldn't they have "found" North America? Open your minds people, stop and let other explanations be presented to you. It's amazing what you might learn!!
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/28/2013 05:04:31 pm
My friend and colleague, Scott Wolter, is a gracious, generous, and honorable person ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/18/2013 05:04:07 am
IOW ... It was a harmless innocent misunderstanding that has been *cleared*up* ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/27/2013 11:30:06 am
My personal friend and professional colleague (for 25+ years), Scott Wolter, is an honest man … He ISN'T a god, so he isn't PERFECT and doesn't know everything about everything … But I am not ashamed to be known as his friend and colleague ...
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Ge Ki
10/27/2013 03:53:52 pm
Jeez, "Reverend," for someone who keeps telling us to drop the issue, you sure do like to go on about it. It's been a few days now since the last anti-Wolters comment, and here you are, back again to excuse your buddy for lying on his resume. Next time you bitch that we should just "let it go," just look in the mirror. As for me, I sure wish I could tolerate lying the way you can. So much for your 10 Commandments, ay? And you still haven't answered my question: Would you teach kids that it's OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree?
April
12/1/2013 12:10:48 am
Dear Scott,
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Kasie K.
12/19/2013 02:32:08 am
Mr. Wolter, I enjoy your theories and I admire you for stepping away from the mainstream. Keep doing what you're doing. Everyone has critics.
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josephs
1/6/2014 11:50:27 am
you admire him for lying about established facts? When you say "everyone has critics", you clearly want to equate him to Isaac Newton or similar, when it could equally, and more appropriately apply to David Icke...
Jon Bryant
12/23/2013 06:46:38 pm
Scott, I'm a long time fan and enjoy your TV shows a lot. I don't agree with everything I see/hear on your shows, but they are interesting and definitely provoke thought and discussion. An interest of mine is the "early man controversy" ......when did man first appear in North America? Have you ever investigated, or do you plan to investigate, the Early Man site at Calico, California, or the Texas Street archeological site in San Diego, California? These are only two of many sites in North America that provide evidence (in great dispute) of human habitation in North America dating back 200,000 years or so. I've read about these different sites and the differing and conflicting interpretations of the "evidence" of early human presence in North America. I would like to see a program such as yours explore this controversy, and expose these sites and explain the evidence/artifacts found in them. I think it would be a very interesting topic and would evoke lots of controversy (just what you need more of !! :) )
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Mike Hover
1/3/2014 05:07:28 am
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1/5/2014 01:48:32 pm
Scott.
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joe
7/3/2014 01:15:19 pm
Tara, I doubt that you, as a GUARANTEED liberal, has any problem with Clinton having sex with a 20 year old, and for sure you don't care that obama is a thieving, lying, low IQ moron who lies about every aspect of his life, except his rampant and felonious use of illegal drugs. Why hold Scott W. to a higher standard than your hero libtards? Are you demanding Obama be removed from office because he won't admit he is muslim, or admit he is a homosexual? Are you upset that michelle Obama is really a man whose penis shows in many photos? No, these FACTS don't bother you but the fact that Scott Wolter plays the libtard game and lies bothers you?
Trey
1/11/2014 05:26:49 pm
Jason,
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Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:06:28 am
Trey,
Trey
1/11/2014 05:27:04 pm
Jason,
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Trey
1/11/2014 05:27:30 pm
Jason,
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Trey
1/11/2014 05:28:53 pm
Jason,
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Trey
1/11/2014 05:29:01 pm
Jason,
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Trey
1/11/2014 05:29:13 pm
Jason,
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1/12/2014 04:43:01 am
The history channel is selling fiction and I'm glad Jason is calling foul. Jason's knowledge on the subject is needed.
Trey
1/12/2014 05:04:30 am
Its not that I don't care about the truth.....my point is why you people waste your time talking about someone who has no affect on your personal lives. He does not take money from you, the show does not affect your personal relationships, it shouldn't hinder your endeavors. So why waste your time on him? Go out and spend your time productively and contribute something to society.
Trey
1/12/2014 05:04:37 am
Its not that I don't care about the truth.....my point is why you people waste your time talking about someone who has no affect on your personal lives. He does not take money from you, the show does not affect your personal relationships, it shouldn't hinder your endeavors. So why waste your time on him? Go out and spend your time productively and contribute something to society. 1/12/2014 05:24:28 am
Trey, do you complain that the Todd VanDerWerff at the Onion's AV Club are "obsessed" with NBC's "Parenthood" because he writes 2,000-3,000 words a week on a mere TV show, analyzing each episode?
Trey
1/12/2014 05:45:02 am
Jason,
Trey
1/12/2014 05:45:15 am
Jason, 1/12/2014 05:50:06 am
I told you that, Trey, precisely because you asked. Note that I didn't bring it up until you insinuated that I did not write books, do work, etc. I was replying to your direct question.
Trey
1/12/2014 06:01:00 am
It was not meant to be a question. It was meant as a statement towards your time spent tying 60,000 words on this website, time spent publishing 1000's of articles debunking A.U. the time spent traveling to his sites to de-bunk him, the time spent watching the shows that you despise, the time you spend writing these reviews. That's what I meant. 1/12/2014 06:07:53 am
We can learn even from what we dislike, and debunking America Unearthed is a learning experience. It makes me sharper. You seem to think there is this deep emotional connection I have to the show, which is belied by the fact that I've been doing similar work since 2001, when I used to debunk Graham Hancock back when he was popular. I find it fun to pick apart bad ideas. It's how we separate bad ideas from good ideas.
Trey
1/12/2014 06:16:27 am
Hey man, Ive got no problem with that. And I would agree...100%. But that's not what your doing here. You've invoked such a argument and dug up enough dirt where this man is trying (or attempted to) sue you. And all for what? So some people can think what?????? That's all Im trying to say.
Joe Sesto
1/13/2014 06:35:09 am
Scott, I watched your 12/2013 episode on the Norsemen last night. It occurred to me that most in the historic community would know that the correct name for the Smithsonian is the Smithsonian Institution and it was called the Institute at least 3 times on that show. Also it is not pronounced New..fund..lund. It is New..found..land. I am not qualified to comment on the scientific or historic value of your show...but if your research is not extensive enough to determine basic facts, known for centuries...it puts the legitimacy of your research in question.
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Dr. Tod
4/30/2014 05:45:03 pm
Joe,
bill pless
2/2/2014 01:09:34 am
Scott, degree or no degree, its the study and hard work you put into doing your job that counts....as a retired Baptist preacher, I neither have or have had a degree in theology, but 2 years of seminar and countless years of studying the Holy Bible, needless to say I don't know it all but will stand toe to toe with anyone re: scripture.
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Bruce Rich
2/9/2014 02:26:57 pm
I think I have an idea as to how to get view of the cave in the Grand canyon episode. There are a type of RC pilot that fly FPV (First Person View). I could see some of them being able to help and at least get an outside view of the cave. If the cave is there and looks right someone could always go forward later. Is it possible to get the cords of the cliff top?
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JAMES G NICHOLS JR
2/14/2014 05:39:21 pm
Scott, I realize that having a fancy diploma is pretty popular (I don't have one) but in the end it's your knowledge that's the key to what you do, whether or not it's printed on parchment. I'm constantly shocked by "scientists" who will only recognize accomplishments and discoveries made by people who attended famous colleges and stuck to what the textbooks said.
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Jason Rumsey
2/22/2014 05:22:10 am
Scott,
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Jason Rumsey
2/22/2014 05:26:58 am
Scott,
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Rick S MBA
4/12/2014 07:13:12 pm
Dear Scott:
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Mr. E
9/23/2014 10:56:57 am
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/scott-wolter-lashes-out-at-me-again-says-future-events-might-cause-him-to-sue-me
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Kathryn Zambito
1/18/2015 01:00:09 pm
Hi Scott,
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Dolores
3/30/2015 11:24:49 pm
I hear you Scott. I have several academic degrees but the one degree I am most proud of is not an academic degree but actually one my children presented to me on Mother's Day one year. It said: M.O.M. Underneath that it read: Master's of Motherhood.
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Lillian Zachar
8/13/2015 06:46:27 pm
Scott,
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Americanegro
9/4/2016 12:28:07 am
Scott, you're making more typos than usual tonight. Hitting the gin harder than most days? Fist clenched in rage?
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C.Moore Duncan
11/25/2013 08:17:07 pm
Why is Jason such a pecker neck ?
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Ray
12/1/2013 07:32:19 pm
And why is it that sad people like you go into a blog just to call other people names? Get a life.
C.Moore Duncan
12/10/2013 09:38:56 am
Hey Ray , I was not calling Jason names I was describing him . I have a life Ray and am tired of worn out phrases like " Get a Life " . 1/22/2013 03:17:27 pm
I think this has been a model of how we would like these things to turn out. At least, you and I, Jason. Unfortunately, most of the people I write about are dead so I don't expect to hear from them. I would not consider some adolescent girl cracking her toe knuckles under the table to be a genuine meeting of the minds.
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Tara Jordan
1/22/2013 04:25:02 pm
"I would not consider some adolescent girl cracking her toe knuckles under the table to be a genuine meeting of the minds.".
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1/23/2013 02:31:30 pm
It wasn't a reference to you. I meant the Fox Sisters. They were two girls in pre-Civil War New England who communed with the spirits. Turned out the mysterious knocking that people heard during their seances was on of the girls cracking her toe knuckles under the table.
Tara Jordan
1/23/2013 03:02:51 pm
John, Quite a funny story, I wonder if Giorgo Tsukalos is capable of generating ectoplasm?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/9/2013 03:12:21 pm
I have it on good authority that "Giorgio" uses "ectoplasm" for his hair gel -- which explains a LOT, I think ...
getalifeloser
2/22/2014 05:46:00 am
I have seen you do nothing but call everyone but your boyfriend Jason Colavito ignorant and stupid! If that is the way you want to go okay, that's fine. You just prove the point that your an academic and nothing more, you have no interest in knowing if what is told to you is the truth or not and you have no dreams of changing the world. You have never and will never make your own way, you will always follow the majority and you will never be a trailblazer. You have wasted your life and to be honest I would hope that you would seek treatment and therapy to find out why you are this way. I hope the best for you Tara but I don't think it will happen for you. The world is getting tired of yes men/women, now we want the truth, no matter what the cost.
Dolores
3/30/2015 11:47:10 pm
Then why do you talk like you are 22?
Dolores
3/30/2015 11:46:15 pm
Yes John J McKay, I address that very issue in my upcoming book...too many academics don't have the cojones to tackle a person's theories while they are alive but when they die said academic "greats" have all kinds of criticism and epithets for them!
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Tara Jordan
1/23/2013 03:52:08 am
Jason. There is a growing proportion of the American public that is totally incapable of locating Egypt (I am not even talking about the Giza plateau) on a world map,yet they systematically associate this archeological site with aliens visitations,new age fringe sciences & esoteric garbage.Don`t get me wrong,I love Science fiction & horror literature, but there is one big difference,Lovecraft and Derleth never claimed to write scientific books, Ancient Aliens theorists and American Unearthed "experts" pretend they are actually engage in a scientific process...
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Cory
3/19/2013 09:17:35 pm
Okay Tara, I have read enough from you. Please, with all of your wisdom; tell us what "you" think the purpose of the pyramids are?...As for you bashing Scott Wolter and the people following him and his quest; GET BENT!!! You are a narrow minded individual, that will sadly be in Washington D.C. one day making our nations policies. For someone to sound like such a know-it-all and be as narrow minded as you may be you need to open your eyes to the world around you. You know that after school special saying "knowledge is power"...That has been proven, all the way back from the cro magnon and neanderthal age. Did you ever ask yourself, what happened to the knowledge in Alexander's library or Genghis Khan's prized possessions? I, and other like minded people do ask questions like that! This does not make us a retard or three (not 3) degrees away from understanding. The freemasons are a living a breathing entity; this I can contest too. It is called "HIS STORY" for a reason.
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3/19/2013 10:26:15 pm
Obviously you chose not to read anything I have ever written beyond this post, or even my other responses here. Nor do you appear to have read Wolter's response in which he admits that his honorary degree is not recognized by the university and does not exist.
Cory
3/20/2013 09:17:46 pm
Jason- 3/20/2013 11:36:46 pm
I think you post is missing a few words, since I am unable to grasp what you mean about "remove it from everything." As Mr. Wolter wrote, it was not I who caused him to admit that the University did not recognize the honorary degree he claimed it had awarded but rather the Minnesota state agency that licenses geologists. If you have a problem with how the state of Minnesota evaluates Mr. Wolter's credentials, you may take it up with them.
Billy Randolph
3/28/2013 02:35:20 pm
It is for gnosis.
Ken
5/10/2013 06:27:28 pm
Hey Cory,
Bimmerella
9/18/2013 03:35:16 am
Ten bucks says Cory is a fox news watcher. How else can you explain the low information threshold he has for determining facts, and then can only regurgitate the canned "skeptic" response when called. That comes from someone who has been programmed to lash out at people who dare to ask questions about things they accept as true. Jason has not lashed out here. He has asked questions, thoughtfully researched the topics, and pointed out inaccuracies and even dishonesty. Maybe you disagree, but at least HE has presented peer reviewed accepted knowledge to back his claims of inaccuracy. Wolter didn't do any such thing. If there was, we wouldnt be reading this right now.
Tara Jordan
1/1/2014 02:05:46 pm
My sarcasm is vindicated,Wolter is a crook,but his is a mastermind at taking advantage of intellectual simpletons like yourself.
Christopher B
4/4/2013 04:49:03 pm
Tara, people who purport to academics, and look down upon the great unwashed masses as inferior, tend to be, in my experience, self loathing, insecure, close minded idividuals. You should remember that some of the greatest discoveries of our civilisation, often come by mistake, chance or being OPEN to possibilities, not just accepting the Status Quo. Waving your diploma in the faces of those who do not have one, is beneath the moral standards of good people. You really sound like a vengeful, mean spirited young lady.
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Jim
1/23/2013 04:49:05 am
Tara,
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Tara Jordan
1/23/2013 06:00:18 am
Of course,Tara, you mean little thing,engaging in "Name calling,mud slinging & ad hominem attacks". Because the other side,they`re all milk & honey.With all due respect Jim, you dont know what you are talking about. Ask Jason how many death threats,intimidations & the like, he has to deal on weekly base, just because he dares questioning the golden cows of the snake oil peddling industry.There are 1000`s of sites and blogs that fawn upon and promote this new age- Ancient Aliens, alternative history pseudo intellectual garbage, the debunkers are the minority among a minority. By the way I dont feel I have to justify myself for my behavior & my positions,but being critical is not only a right,a duty,it is a matter of public hygiene
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Jim
1/23/2013 07:19:16 am
Tara, 1/23/2013 12:45:43 pm
Actually, it's not that many death threats. They only come a few times a year, and so far there's only been one I had to take somewhat seriously. Mostly it's just angry people blowing off steam.
Tara Jordan
1/23/2013 02:55:25 pm
Not at all Jim.I do appreciate the critic, especially when it comes from individuals with your intellect. I am blunt indeed but I have a really good education & I am quite capable of restraining myself. This is not my personal space & I would never behave in a way that could be detrimental to Jason. (I hope I am not?;) When Jason tells me to chill out, I do. I may have indeed valuable things to say but I am not a poseur & exposing my academic credentials & the depth of my intellectual bandwidth,is no part of my strategy. You have to take it into context, most of this Ancient Aliens,alternative history munbo jumbo has already been debunked by other scholars & experts,Jason is providing a final & personal touch to the polemic.Furthermore I am not a debunker & the burden of proof is on the individuals who are making extravagant claims. There is a huge amount of scholarly & academic literature that deals with these specific issues, I dont feel I am the one who has make the case,People need to do their basic home work.Thank you for your feedback
Dolores
3/30/2015 10:42:40 pm
Tara,
terry the censor
1/23/2013 07:16:07 pm
Scott Wolter wrote:
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The Searcher
3/16/2013 10:23:00 am
To the Degreed Professionals,
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3/16/2013 10:40:22 am
You are welcome to find all of my counterarguments and evidence in my weekly reviews of the program. This post is not meant to be an exhaustive critique of the man's life and work.
Michael J
11/25/2013 07:45:43 pm
You make many great points and I applaud you . Many of us also fail to look into who is funding a scientist or the dogma that is all too prevalent in science today.
Dolores
3/30/2015 10:52:30 pm
Dear Searcher,
Hugh
1/24/2013 08:24:10 pm
I would like to make a comment....I appreciate this blog (found it while checking on Mr. Wolters credentials) and love the fact the Mr Wolters is responding. I have any issue which seeks to make claims that challenge held beliefs without more support than I see on America Unearthed. The first shows I have seen (coming into it late) the arguments seem sophmoric. I was not surprised to find he has only an undergraduate (layman), many of the arguments lack support and a thoroughness one would need to challenge long held belief. But I do agree with Mr Wolters that Academia (entrenched professors who's whole career may rest upon the dates he threatens) and his main suppositions need not be thrown out. Mr Wolters, I ask that you just tighten it up (If the History Channel time schedule will allow).
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Jim
1/25/2013 04:29:21 am
"But I do agree with Mr Wolters that Academia (entrenched professors who's whole career may rest upon the dates he threatens) and his main suppositions need not be thrown out."
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Hugh
1/26/2013 01:43:14 pm
Agreed. But academia is not all about scientific method. Biases do prevail. Your only as good as your last publication and people guard there dissertations jeolously. It is not an even playing field. That is why some turn to trial by the public (TV)instead of going the academic route (getting the degree, getting book published and doing the lecture circiut)
Danna
1/30/2013 04:40:03 pm
I also discovered this site when looking for Mr. Wolter's credentials. What bothered me about the program I just saw was that Mr. Wolter's either didn't listen closely to or misinterpreted the responses of the 'experts' he visited for the program. I was also disappointed that geologic science was not included even though that is apparently Mr. Wolter's expertise. I suppose it was no accident that the program was followed by another History channel jewel, Ancient Aliens. I wonder if they shouldn't call it the Junk History channel.
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Hugh
1/31/2013 04:09:33 pm
Amen! I hate shows that use questions to pass off as statments; "Could it be....blah blah blah?" It is because it "probably isnt". But having noticed the heading of this webpage, I fear I may insult our host whom I fear is calling the kettle black when he questions Mr Wolters expertise. It all about TV air time, baby. Over and out.
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1/31/2013 10:24:43 pm
I'm no expert, and I'm happy to say so. But I'm also not claiming to be one, or to claim to rewrite all of history with my "expertise."
do it
3/26/2013 12:21:55 am
i believe you have found your life partners and go suck each others dicks now
Bob
2/1/2013 03:18:40 pm
Great discussion! Informative. I found this site by looking for supportive "evidence" for claims made in the America Unearthed series. I am well into the third episode. I like speculation and the stringing of tantalizing clues. Naturally many questions cannot have nice neat questions. Perhaps archaeologists, cultural anthropologists and their ilk may further clarify the prehistory of the Americas. I expect and hope they do.
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Hugh
2/1/2013 06:39:21 pm
Are you sure you not gnostic (special knowledge and all)? just kidding....you would be considered heretic and burned at the stake. (I made excellent marks in systematic theology at Chandler, Emory University....not so good in Old Testament)
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8/22/2013 04:37:02 pm
@Agape Bob,
Iain Mackenzie
2/5/2013 12:32:27 pm
I too found this site while searching for Scott Wolter. I saw the America Unearthed advert and was intrigued by the subject matter. About half way through the ”America’s Stonehenge” episode I thought I was watching a satire on Archeology shows, but by the end of it I realized that Mr. Wolter seemed to be sincere. I am not a geologist or archeo-anything but was stunned by the leaps of logic that became facts at the speed of light.
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2/5/2013 12:40:57 pm
Welcome to the site! I've posted reviews of each episode of "America Unearthed," so you can read up on everything you missed, and just how stupid it is. In my review of the "Stonehenge in America" episode I do my best to try to explain where the line to Phoenicia came from. It's really stupid.
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Iain Mackenzie
2/10/2013 05:22:45 am
Thanks for the reply. I checked out your review. Spot on in my opinion, and saved me a lot of work figuring out Google earth.
Iain Mackenzie
2/10/2013 05:23:03 am
Thanks for the reply. I checked out your review. Spot on in my opinion, and saved me a lot of work figuring out Google earth.
Colleen Niemi
4/17/2013 05:09:37 pm
I love this site! Just stumbled across it while looking for Scott's credentials since I, like many others, recognized he couldn't be from an academic background. I happened across the show and honestly thought at first that it was a new Christopher Guest movie. There's a difference between hypothesis and agenda, scientific inquiry and show-biz, truth and romance. Not that they can't overlap but it behooves us all to keep our desire for a really great story separate from a rigid skepticism. What I found really interesting about the Runestone episode was how excited the archaeologist doing the dig was about the Native American artifacts he was finding and how completely disinterested the farmer was in all the actual treasures that were being discovered all around him. Native Shmative, I want a Viking just like the Viking that married dear old Mom.
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Rob
1/19/2014 12:44:25 pm
I liked the way the drew the line from the American Stonehenge to England and then the Lebanon. Is it just me, but I looked at a map and I don't see it possible to draw a straight line???
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1/19/2014 12:48:34 pm
You can't. The line is called the "Great Circle," and you can read about how it works in my review of the episode by clicking the "America Unearthed Reviews" link above.
Jeffery Pitts
2/13/2013 04:52:05 pm
I just watched America Unearthed and was completely appalled at the episode about the carved bull found on a stone in the Arkansas River near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Wolters saw vertical scratches laid out on a horizontal plane along a cliff face near the area where the bull carving was found. He proclaimed it was possibly Irish Ogham script and flew to Ireland to "check it out". A professor there showed Mr. Wolters an actual Ogham inscription (horizontal lines laid out in verticle planes) and looked at the pictures Mr. Wolters brought from Oklahoma. The professor flatly told him it wasn't ogham. However, later, Mr. Wolters went to western Oklahoma and saw more verticle scratches on a horizontal plane and agreed it was ogham, although it looked nothing like real ogham script. The show went on to claim that ancient celts who worshiped Mithras (You gotta be kidding me!) came to Oklahoma and carved Ogham, Mithras, the Mithras bull, and Anubis in a cliff shelter. They then claimed Anubis was tied to Mithras and that Irish celts worshiped them. It made me sick to my stomach to see this junk on the History Channel, and people like Scott Wolters should hope to God there is no hell because in my opinion liars and frauds should be condemned to the worst, lowest levels. Anyone who knows anything about Mithras knows it was an eastern religion from the area of Persia carried through Western Europe by the members of the Roman Army. Why would anybody claim it was ever celtic? He had some "expert" on Mithras who backed him up on that and tied Anubis to the Mithras cult as well. Complete hogwash! America Unearthed made me so sick and angry I just had to find as many places online as possible to try to discredit this junk history, quackery, tv show. Scott Wolters, if you read this, shame on you! You are actually making people stupid and getting paid to do it. Jason Colavito, you sir are a scholar and a gentleman. Keep up the good work!
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Alan Watts
11/25/2013 09:34:44 pm
Joseph Campbell was a scholar and a gentleman .
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2/15/2013 08:22:42 am
It appears Jason takes some liberties with his own resume. He claims to be a "best selling" author. This claim comes with an asterisk and if one bothers to read the asterisk it notes, "* Amazon.com ranking of top 10 best-selling archaeology new releases, December 2012."
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2/15/2013 08:37:03 am
What exactly do you think I'm hiding? If you check my blog archive, you'll see I've always been very clear about my book sales and the fact that my blog readership outdraws my booksales many times over. You're right that I am not a NYT Bestselling author (which is also based on relative sales, not absolute sales), but a little marketing puffery isn't the same as faking credentials.
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TheTruthRevealed
2/15/2013 09:39:47 am
Jason states: "If you check my blog archive, you'll see I've always been very clear about my book sales "
Shane Taylor
5/12/2013 12:18:24 am
Look Jason. You have got to come clean. You asked Scott to tell the truth and verify his credentials....now it's your turn.....hand over the statistics as asked. How many copies of your books are being sold?
josephs
1/6/2014 12:02:18 pm
It is one thing to say you have sold a lot of books one amazon, which Jason probably has, and quite another to claim academic credentials, especially when you are using those credentials to give your vague theories about knights templar, freemasons, etc some credence. Now, would you propose that anything Jason has said in the body of his article above or in any of the reviews about AU are factually incorrect? (Obviously that would require you reading them which you probably cannot be bothered to do)
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William
2/15/2013 07:44:36 pm
What Tara considers 'debunked' is someone who scrounged together a Youtube documentary and attaches the title 'debunked' at the end. That's not the problem...it's purely guilt by association, and automatic feeding of the old superiority-complex every time that word is uttered in the name of the doctrine.
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Just some girl
2/15/2013 08:10:18 pm
I have nothing more than an associates degree in marketing and sales so I will not be trying to boast of any high intellect. My interest in history, archaeology and geology has been with me since, as a child, I first started digging in the dirt of my front lawn hoping to find a Native American artifact. What I have taken away from watching America Unearthed is a renewed "spark" in those interests. I would hope that creating an interest in these subjects is the true intent of the producers and Mr. Wolter. If people are taking all that is said on this television show as absolute truth, it is unfortunate. With the ability to do vast research from the luxury of their own home, I believe they are only doing themselves a disservice. Anyone who understands how to use a computer and knows that making an informed decision involves obtaining much more than a few statements one person made will do that research before forming a solid view on the matter.
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Rob
4/25/2013 06:59:32 pm
You mean your just some slut
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Jeremy
6/7/2013 12:54:37 pm
Wow, Rob must really have a high IQ for his reply.. That takes some high intelligence to come up with a remark like that... Oh wait, I remember in highschool that jocks and bullies (whose IQ's were south of 100) made similar comments... I agree with Just some girl and her post. I think we do need to think for ourselves a bit and challenge the Status Quo... This show does that.
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Sukhavati
11/26/2013 09:15:35 pm
I think you are " Just some very nice girl ".
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Dolores
3/30/2015 11:01:49 pm
Just Some Girl,
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William
2/16/2013 11:37:15 am
Re:Discussion
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2/16/2013 11:55:21 am
Perhaps you have misunderstood the purpose of this blog post. My review of America Unearthed S01E01 was posted separately, where I deal with the material in question. Wolter was denied access because his team hadn't filed the proper paperwork to film and conduct intrusive tests at the site. It is otherwise open to the public and can be visited by following the map and directions the Forest Service helpfully provides on the site's website.
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William
2/16/2013 12:09:52 pm
Awesome, then I can go. Two weeks ago, I had never heard of the site, so I hadn't looked into it yet.
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Katherine
2/18/2013 03:14:55 pm
I'm jumping into the "debate" a little late, but I just caught "America Unearthed" for the first time, and since the whole thing just reeked of the same pseudo-science used in "Ancient Aliens", I thought I'd check into the credentials of Mr.Wolter. Apparently, he has none. (and yes..I think credentials are important. In my opinion, "self-taught" usually means educated by fools) It will be the last time I watch the show, and I'll be sure to pass this information along to friends, and acquaintances. At this point "The History Channel" should be forced to change it's name to "The let's give anyone with a half-baked notion a show" channel.
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Edda Beiver
11/25/2013 10:01:46 pm
Maybe Obozo will pass a law and force H2 to change its name to your request .
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Kathryn Zambito
1/21/2015 10:23:35 am
Katherine, So you would call natural geniuses like Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison fools? Ha!
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A Teacher
2/22/2013 03:10:30 pm
I watch the show and I can certainly buy into the notion that there are things which happened in North America that preceded Columbus. My concern, however, is how often and how easily Mr. Wolter is convinced by evidence that is so questionable. The dating of many of the sites in the Americas he has visited are highly speculative and not based on the standard measures of age as determined by absolute or relative dating procedures. Due to the nature of the New England climate, Mr. Wolter must know that even rocks as hard as granite can weather relatively quickly. In the Pennsylvania mountains he was convinced of a European connection based in part on what he perceived to be a ceremonial basin. Is he not aware that many Amish people have spring fed basins just like that in their cellars which are used to keep items such as milk cool? Cool spring water was the simple man's refrigerator. As for the Mandan Welsh connection, a whole host of scholars and learned people from Mandan and Welsh backgrounds have thoroughly debunked the notion of a Mandan-Welsh connection. The entire premise was based on The Corps of Discovery comments that the Mandan looked "European." Anyone who studies genetics understands that certain physical traits can become isolated in one particular group of people. Some indigenous North Americans had beards while others were incapable of growing facial hair. Because of Hollywood, we have been conditioned to think of indigenous North Americans as looking a certain way. Surely the same genetic variations occured in the millions of individuals scattered across a massive land mass. Enthusiasm, curiosity, Mr. Wolter, are fabulous things. They have led to some of the greatest innovations in the history of our species. But enthusiasm and a desire to be right should not have the effect of clouding one's judgment. I, for one, very much WANT you to be correct in many of your beliefs. As a secondary level teacher of social studies and science I am certainly aware of how history has been manipulated, misrepresented, even invented. I am also well aware of how certain data and information can be manipulated in a way to say what the experimentor wants it to say. I am sad to say that I have an inherent lack of trust in most of what I read at first glance, and I try to make an effort to sort thrrough the differing points of view to find something I can accept. It is obvious that the show itself is "scripted" to a great degree, perhaps necessarily, but for people with a bit more background in science and history "scriptedness" implies to us that the authenticity of the claims are weak. Scientists and historians can be incredibly enthusiastic about their beliefs, but the best ones in my opinion avoid sensationalizing anything. Quite the contrary, the best scientists and historians are ones who test themselves and their beliefs by requiring a considerable preponderance of evidence until they are satisfied they have adequately explained away alternatives to their beliefs. Mr. Wolter is no more or less biased than many scientists and historians today. Many of them want to make a name for themselves. There isn't a lot of money available for research and they want to stand out. They also want recognition for their universities, even their countries. The whole field of science, unfortunately, is subject to intense manipulation. I think Mr. Wolter's show is entertaining and I do learn from it. I would not, however, go so far as to say I consider him a credible historian or, for that matter, a credible "forensic geologist." He is far too easily convinced by evidence that has not met a sufficient burden of proof.
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Mike Courage
2/22/2013 08:55:44 pm
I've watched America Unearthed three times and asked myself "Am I just stupid or is this a bunch of crap? It's good to know that I'm not stupid. That program is an embarrassment to geologists everywhere.
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Hovnohead
5/18/2013 03:40:31 am
Mike: even if this show is a bunch of crap, that does not necessarily mean that you aren't stupid--'leap of logic' examples abound, on all sides of this blog...
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Alan Watts
12/10/2013 09:44:17 am
Get some courage Mike and change the channel .
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Bella Jade
3/25/2014 09:55:45 am
The answer is simple, turn the tv off or change the channel. If you do not like Scott, or his show, then do NOT watch it. Very simple solution. He never says anything is fact...he leaves things open for others to decide for themselves.
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Judd55
4/29/2014 04:30:20 pm
Well the point of the program is entertainment for everyone. There is a factual premise in each instalment. It's not worth wasting too many words on scientific merit, even if there is some from time to time. It's good to challenge things: even science is always doing that....why is medicine "practiced"? Please note that your cell phone works based on science, your beer and flat screen TV are all products of science.
Jay Davis
2/23/2013 06:30:36 pm
Scott, I have been watching the Show and I find it Fascinating. I have told Friends about it and they enjoy it too. Keep up the good work. Your on a Mission. and when you don't know about something you go to the Experts. Nothing wrong with that. Looking forward to more Seasons. Great Entertainment.
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AnnaB
8/31/2014 04:22:59 am
Except that the experts refute his ideas at every turn, so he works it into the script that it must be a conspiracy and is even more sure now that his crazy assumptions must be correct. This is generally done in a huffy fake phone call to friends or family.
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John E
3/1/2013 05:10:22 pm
The show is entertaining, but like so many shows on the 'History' Channel, it freely sacrifices the basic rules of evidence in favor of sensationalistic conspiracy theory. I do wonder to what extent Mr. Wolter has been influenced by the late Harvard zoologist Barry Fell. While Fell was a far more careful researcher than Wolter is, I can't help but be reminded of his book, _America BC_ while watching Wolter's show. Too bad "America Unearthed" isn't nearly as reflective of careful research as _America BC_ was. It is quite a bit better than "Finding Bigfoot" however. What is so annoying about these shows is how much even those of us who truly WANT these tales to be true are simply left with nothing but sensationalistic hunches and maybes when all is said and done.
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Jeremy
3/7/2013 09:13:51 am
It's a TV show and it seems that fact gets lost with most people.
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3/7/2013 09:33:00 am
I think that's a rather low standard to hold TV to. Look back at "In Search of..." from 30 years ago; it covered the same material and came to many of the same conclusions, but it did so in a way that was comparatively more open-minded, fair, and entertaining. But we don't have to have false ideas to be entertaining: Have you ever watched historical documentaries from the BBC, Germany's ZDF, and other international broadcasters? They cover fascinating bits of human history in an entertaining way. I remember seeing a documentary about the Nebra Sky Disk on DWTV (Germany), and it was engaging, entertaining, and based in actual fact.
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Thomas O
9/10/2013 02:18:53 am
I have just recently come across "America Unearthed", now, while I am not overly concerned regarding the quality of Mr Wooten's credentials the most fundamental thing for me is the entertainment value of the subject matter.
Michelle D
3/9/2013 06:09:40 am
I too was wondering about the credentials as the show continues somethings just do not add up. First as a geo "experienced" he still refers to the Americas as the "New World." Unless the clouds parted the day Columbus landed and poof the Americas were born (Which I kind of doubt) the Americas have a long and diverse history beyond just the Euro humans landing.
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Brenda Worrall
3/11/2013 06:00:26 am
Wow ... who is this Tara Jordan person anyway ?? She says "
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Bill
8/19/2013 11:09:52 am
I guess pointing out that you can find the papers Tara Jordan has authored with about 30 seconds of research on the internet would be lost on you. Unlike Wolter she is willing to put her work into the academic arena and deal with all the abuse that entails
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1/4/2014 02:31:25 pm
I was expecting nothing less from someone like yourself.The Scott Wolter aficionado is probably the lowest form of organic life in our solar system.
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pat
3/12/2013 06:57:46 am
I have no degree. I spent 20 years in the us military, 5 as a mil contractor. i have read history since age5. started with an old high school history book. Have read a dozen book since childhood on roanoke. I read all sorts of history still. I know many things written in history are wrong. Many other things are unknown. I like scott. I dont think he is a master scientist. I dont think many scientist today are. I think politics has harmed higher education. people who call people names when they dont have to answer for it are bullies. Attack the message, not the messenger. I know at age 14, in n.c., i was with my adult brother when we found a small stone tablet, engraved with tiny pictograms of characters that resembled some sort of writng. 8 lines. 40 odd characters. we searched at the county library for a match. none. The librarian called a state archeology office man who came to my brothers home. He claimed it looked like nothing he had seen, but was probably "some old hoax".He then asked for it. when my brother refused, he threatened state code that made artifacts state property. my brother refused. we "lost" it. My brother is an ahole, but we were digging out a site for a pump house, and he could never have made such a thing, or want to. There was an old spring 50 yds away that had been a stopping site on an old wagon road, and probably an important site for centuries.I had gathered arrowheads and stone tools in the area for years. NOTHING looked as smooth and well made as this. It was not regular native american material. I believe some traveler left it here god knows when. Just a side note, my dad at 16, in the cc corp in 1937 worked to build roads in fish lake national forest utah. in a cave there he found 4 coins which he kept. I id"d them as roman from a book when i was 17. My dad had a 6th grade education, was no liar, and thought they were old mexican coins. My point being there is a weatlth of history we dont know. it is cut and dried. man was a wanderer and has done what is often never known. For the record, i am convinced the colonists at roanoke fought to survive and were scattered among indian tribes, many seperate untold tales of survival. i dont know if any of the dare stones are real, but the tale they tell is not outrageous. Lets show humility and respect each other, even if we think someone is wrong. Being wrong doesnt make someone evil. Scott shows his sincerity by addressing his critics. we should all show the decent tone he answers others with.
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Tony Newcomb
3/13/2013 10:14:25 pm
I'm honored to see such debate over the history of our nations lands. I am a direct grandson to William Brewster of the Pilgrims. And my ancestor grandfather Capt. Andrew Newcomb came here to Boston in 1630-1640. I know they had a big part in forming this nation. I know they had connection to the Knights Templar and later Freemasons. I can't understand the thought that open minds can't be used in the possibility that history books written by fallible men and women could be wrong or "Partially" right as mentioned here. Evidence and searching for the truth does not require a degree. I hold various mechanical and Carpentry/Masonry certifications. That does not mean I can't run a tractor on my grandpa's farm or care for sick farm animals if needed. We each hold diverse skills we don't go on record mentioning but they are there none the less as we speak of things. The old saying comes to mind. "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear to be smart. Than to open it and remove all the doubt. Scott Wolter May not have a degree per-say. But he seems to have a grasp on the smarts to handle America Unearthed. Maybe he could team up with a counter part who could be a degree holding bias view to offer a second point of view??
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CFC
3/14/2013 12:02:31 pm
No one is saying that you must have a degree to be intelligent or that to seek evidence or speak the truth you need an advanced degree. What I read here is that it is wrong and unethical for Mr. Wolter to mislead people that he has an “honorary master’s degree” from an institution of higher education that DOES NOT EXIST. This kind of dishonesty is unacceptable to me. If he can't be honest about his education creditials, doesn't that raise doubt about his honesty as a professional and as a so-called researcher?
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uytrewq
11/25/2013 10:19:30 pm
We should all be honest like the tyrannical leaders our great country has.
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Paul Elshoff
3/15/2013 07:54:57 am
Was just watching a series of these shows today. Scott Wolter sort of had me with him until he crossed the line from being geologist to now being a homicide investigator taking DNA samples from Meriwether Lewis' Freemason apron; culminating in "his" conclusion that Lewis was murdered. Being a former law enforcement officer and investigator with real diplomas/certificates in the criminology field, I would offer that Mr. Wolter should stick with geology. (Nice blog, Jason.)
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Billy Bob
3/15/2013 02:02:24 pm
There is a rock in Arizona that suggests that it was Jesus who actually discovered America 1500 years before Columbus.
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Kate
3/15/2013 02:23:27 pm
Hey everybody, this is America. We can choose to watch certain tv shows or not. I like Scott Wolter because he has the guts to put together an entertaining tv show. Do I believe what he is selling? No, most of the time, I do not. But it is fun to watch and I am a reasoning person and I can decide what to believe.
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Aaron
5/20/2013 03:54:20 am
Hey Kate, this is America. We can choose to criticize the claims of those who purport to be experts or scientists. I'm glad you're able to differentiate between fantasy and reality when it comes to the content of the show, but unfortunately most cannot it would seem. No one is criticizing Scott's ability as a showman or his ability to sell himself. Good for him. And if people were... Hey, this is America, right?
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Jim Jones Punch
11/25/2013 11:02:13 pm
Well it used to be America until about 1913 , now it is Amerika .
Jon
3/15/2013 02:43:20 pm
Correction, Billy Bob, it was actually Jesus and his son who discovered the America's. Both of whom were members of the Knights Templar. Scott Wolters just put on a laser show in an ancient Rhode Island rock structure that basically proved this.
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Charles Austin Miller
3/15/2013 02:43:27 pm
I fail to see why Wolter's 82 bachelor's degree in geology qualifies him to investigate and remark upon archaeology, anthropology, architecture, engineering, or Knights Templar conspiracy theory. Wolter consistently makes an ass of himself, as far as I can see.
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Sukhavati
11/26/2013 09:23:44 pm
You stated that you fail to see which is correct .
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Ray
12/1/2013 07:38:34 pm
Then please tell us how a BS in geology does in fact qualify Wolter for work in archaeology, anthropology, architecture, engineering, or Knights Templar conspiracy theories.
Ray
12/1/2013 07:38:40 pm
Then please tell us how a BS in geology does in fact qualify Wolter for work in archaeology, anthropology, architecture, engineering, or Knights Templar conspiracy theories.
Ray
12/1/2013 07:38:48 pm
Then please tell us how a BS in geology does in fact qualify Wolter for work in archaeology, anthropology, architecture, engineering, or Knights Templar conspiracy theories.
Charles Austin Miller
3/15/2013 02:52:34 pm
I mean, for a half-baked "geologist" to shine a leveling laser on a stone structure and declare "ONLY the Knights Templar would stack stones like this" is like Giorgio Tsoukalos declaring "This can mean NOTHING ELSE but extraterrestrial technology!" This is straight-up misinformation and disinformation. Thanks, H2...
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Stafford
3/15/2013 05:35:21 pm
Scott Wolter is a charlatan and now is parroting Dan Brown's conspiratorial nonsense to try and discredit the Catholic Church. He is obsessed with Freemasonary and is neither an intellectual or particularly entertaining. He is one step above the Finding Bigfoot stooges.
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gabe
6/30/2013 04:25:43 pm
The Catholic Church needs help to be discredited ??!!
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Ann Adam
12/3/2013 05:10:07 am
LOL! But Stafford, now we know at least one bigfoot in the Yeti catagory is a cross of Polar bear and early Grizzly bear. Now, on to Sasquatch! This is good for local economies. Northern Calif. needs SOMETHING other than marijuana.
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Eliza
3/15/2013 07:20:24 pm
I was actually excited to see the shows when I caught some of the previews online and on the History channel. Something different and informative? After the 2nd show though, I found myself cringing every time he had a new lead or mentioned 'Templar' and 'exact match'. It's agonizing to watch someone crawl from the depths and not succeed.
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3/15/2013 11:34:28 pm
I have deleted a post with abusive language. This is a warning that any more abusive language from anyone, and the post will be deleted.
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3/16/2013 01:03:50 am
Oh, you're no fun. ;o)
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3/16/2013 01:04:07 am
Oh, you're no fun. ;o)
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3/16/2013 01:04:21 am
Oh, you're no fun. ;o)
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joe
7/3/2014 01:28:35 pm
Jason is the biggest hypocrite in the world, therefore he is a liberal democrat. He does not like lying but is the biggest liar in the world. This ugly, fat, low IQ dummy pretends he is, in his words, A BESTSELLING AUTHOR. Too funny. If you added up his lifetime book sales it would not equal one day of a BESTSELLING AUTHOR. Debunk that, moron, but since you are a liberal lying sack of dung, you CANNOT. You won't reveal your book sales, since they are measure in the hundreds.
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Bobdds
3/16/2013 03:22:12 am
Scott seems like such a sincere guy that I find myself hoping terribly for him to make some great discovery or at least even ask some great question. It is such a throw away show unfortunately bc the leaps of his conclusions are so far outside normal fact based scientific methods- I know it wouldn't change the weakness of the arguments but even if it were presented as "is it possible?" It would be a lot less frustrating than have him see things he so badly wants to connect so therefore they are- the letter X is probably in every culture and form of writing- to find a scratched X from maybe Jesus bone box and proclaim it knights Templar and Masonic lodge is so far beyond even the most liberal peer reviewed journal- he has a platform- some interesting artifacts - teach us things that are known, reasonable possibilities and that is all we need for a decent show- don't swing for the fences- just makes the whole game bad and we are actually rooting for the home team.
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Ed Russell
3/17/2013 02:53:37 am
To those who feel Mr. Wolter's does "pseudo-science": Recall all of those "nut cases" who said our planet is NOT the center of the universe? Or those crazies who claimed the world is round? Or how about that whack job who hypothesized about gravity? Or proved travel to the moon? Or space travel was impossible? Or any number of places were simply myth and never existed, yet were found? So many of you focus on Mr. Wolter's credentials, not on the questions--some of which are a bit "out there"--and not on trying to determine if he might be right. The fact remains that "crazies" like him are those who advance our understanding of history and the world, of nature and our place in the universe. He shouldn't be condemned in any way. It's not psuedo-science he practices, it's questioning the status quo, and that is, as so many of you have proven, something to criticize and chastize unjustly and immaturely. Mr. Wolter might not have a true degree in geology, but as someone earlier mentioned, you don't need a degree to search for the truth. The truth is beyond us. While some hypotheses may seem utterly ludicrous, he raises more important questions than ones that are a stretch, even for him.
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3/17/2013 02:58:13 am
Guests writing in response to this blog post focused on his credentials because this post was about his false credentials. His degree or lack thereof does not impact his research. If you would like to see reasons why his research is flawed, click the "America Unearthed" tag on the right hand column of my blog and read my weekly episode reviews.
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Aaron
3/17/2013 10:36:07 am
I have two observations after reading these posts;
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Paul Elshoff
3/18/2013 05:38:01 am
Aaron;
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Robert W. McKinney
3/18/2013 11:43:58 am
Dear Jason,
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3/18/2013 11:50:41 am
I have often and frequently said no degree is necessary to study history or learn from it. I don't have a degree in history. The issue with Scott Wolter was the lying, not the degree itself.
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Paul Elshoff
3/18/2013 04:55:18 pm
Exactly, Jason. The facts: You do not collect DNA evidence without masks over your mouth and eyes; 1. for safety of yourself and others while collecting (which he/they did not do); 2. to prevent his/their very own breath from contaminating the sample you are extracting DNA from when they unrolled the clear cover over the Mason apron of Lewis; 3. You do not hold the fresh sample swab collected, up into the air so your camera may verify a "stain" on the cotton swab you collected; as that alone, will contaminate the DNA sample with ambient air. Likewise, there was zero evidence that the lab was certified to process DNA samples. Additionally, the lab tech stated the sample did not match the Lewis family; but additionally, there were multiple (more than one) contributors to the sample collected, according to the lab. Who breathed on it after uncovering it? Who breathed on it when the shooting occurred? Who touched the apron after the shooting occurred? This whole scenario as shown, was a violation of the most simplistic evidence-processes existing. This man would be laughed out of court by any senior high school mock trail jury, just based on evidence collection.
Billy Randolph
3/28/2013 03:04:02 pm
Thank you Paul for sharing your very interesting knowledge and teaching us about possible contamination.
Chris Osowski
3/18/2013 03:52:11 pm
The dialogue I have read here is almost as interesting and entertaining as I find the show to be. I think it is great that Scott Wolter joined the fray to defend himself and clear things up about Mr. Colavito's reasearch here in this discussion. Even if everything Mr. Wolter presents and argues turns out to be complete crap and utter entertainment, it has been, in my eyes, presented in a much more plausible and professional manner than a lot of the other similar shows on television.
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CFC
3/19/2013 06:44:48 am
"I think it is great that Scott Wolter joined the fray to defend himself and clear things up..."
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Sort-of fan
3/24/2013 08:03:09 am
Ridiculous comment: If you think he CAN remove (anything!) from various locations on the internet, you must never have tried! Some real estate outfit put my address as having been sold in 1984 for $89k - with a first lien on it for $364k (!!) -- and no matter how many YEARS (!) I have spent writing to and following up on a zillion sites -- it keeps reappearing. I've lived here since 1980, and it was NEVER EVER sold for anything as low even as $150k -- but every doggoned algorithm on EVERY real estate-related site bases their 'valuation' on that non-existent sale. "Remove anything from the internet?! Just NOT POSSIBLE!
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Ryan Jerisk
3/19/2013 06:55:44 am
After reading many of the comments I find myself thinking that a bunch of liberalcrats are hanging out here besides Scott. I hate status quo and refuse to think that governments (which include state sanctioned universities) across this globe are truthful in any form. Anybody who thinks Christopher Columbus discovered America really needs their cranial skull examined.
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Sukhavati
11/26/2013 09:38:17 pm
I agree with you Ryan but I disagree these people are liberal or the amusing term progressives. They are sheeple .
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3/23/2013 05:23:47 am
Thanks for giving us the heads up on Scotts degrees. Although he may be lacking in educational hoopla, he makes up for it with imagination. So many of our highly "educated" persons lack this one trait. They simply spew the same rhetoric that they were taught, assuming all the while that what they were taught is correct. Einstein once said,"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant". It is great to have someone out there questioning the status quo.
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MarkW
3/23/2013 11:34:56 am
It's a little sad to see someone hammered like this for what I think is a minor fib. When I was a kid I enjoyed reading 'Chariots of the Gods' and 'The Bermuda Triangle'. Even at the time I doubted them but I enjoyed them all the same. I still get a kick out of the odd documentary on those topics. Its fun to fantasize. Many of the topics Scott brings up i've never heard of. Some or all of these things may be hoaxes but, if hoaxes, they began, sometimes, hundreds of years ago. That's fascinating. Its history of a different sort. So I wish everyone would leave Scott alone. We need more like him. Inspire and fire our imaginations and the imaginations of our children. Get out, get your hands dirty and away from those horrid video games, and unearth your own mysteries before its too late - before you grow up and have all of life's mysteries beaten out of you. More power to you Scott. Keep on doing it.
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Sort-of fan
3/24/2013 08:08:12 am
If this show (which I enjoy, even if I do occasionally wince) gets even 100 kids across this anti-science, anti-education country to go look something up or read a book -- MAJOR success! If this show gets anyone to reconsider whether or not everything they were taught in school is valid -- MAJOR success! If watching this or even Ancient Aliens makes someone actually THINK about whether or not they should believe everything they've been handed by the powers that be? MAJOR success!! People are so uninterested in learning anything -- that if postulating something interesting but maybe outside "normal" understandings makes people think or research something?! BRAVO!
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3/24/2013 08:13:15 am
Against that you might argue that if even a single child decides to become a scientist because of anti-vaccine hysteria, all those illnesses that might otherwise have been prevented are worth it. Inspiration is all well and good (I've credited ancient astronauts with inspiring my interest in history), but the real damage done by believing these ideas doesn't exactly outweigh the few who will be inspired not to accept what the TV says as true.
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terry the censor
3/24/2013 09:23:51 am
Jason is correct. The Bush administration ignored the weapons inspectors who were on the ground in Iraq because the experts didn't give them the answers they wanted to hear. Instead, the neocons believed made-up nonsense from Iraqi ex-pats who knew they wanted to hear it. Ten years later, Iraq is still a horrible mess. And no one says, "Well, if those 4400 service deaths and hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties inspire a hundred kids to be critical thinkers, it will have been worth it."
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Jim Jones Punch
11/25/2013 10:46:26 pm
Well Jason you can pump yourself up with all the Mercury you want with those flu vaccines but make sure you read the white papers . I have not had a flu shot in 35 years and never get the flu or the common cold.
Sort-of fan
3/24/2013 08:12:17 am
p.s., Scott? If you're still reading -- I'm actually RE-reading your book on the Hooked X right now. Enjoyed when I first read it a couple years ago, am enjoying it again. I SO mistrust "academe" and their "color within OUR lines or we'll throw you out!" viciousness, that I'd almost give MORE credence to someone outside the lines than someone who has chosen to sell-out, to whatever degree, to keep a place in the schools... I need the scientific data-back-up to validate -- but I'd start with allowing more fringe ideas than not. (My hero has always been Alfred Wegener -- of whom, of course, you know -- but let's let the commenters go read a book about him!)
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Jerome DeWolfe
3/24/2013 12:51:01 pm
In the program "America's Greatest Secret," If you had compensated for the Precession, i.e. the movement of Venus since the Templars built the Rhode Island tower, the light of Venus probably would have hit your niche on the Winter Solstice.
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Billy Randolph
3/28/2013 03:29:39 pm
Jerome. Can you please share with us how you know that. Thank you for teaching us.
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mason
6/7/2017 10:52:23 am
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3/26/2013 12:13:17 am
To the author of this article, this is just a sad and disgraceful waste of your time. I would like to believe you are the exact type of person that has inspired Scott to continue his work and production of the show. I hope for you sake you use your time more wisely in future.
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3/26/2013 12:27:35 am
Seriously? Against the more than one million words of original research I've written over the past 10+ years, these few paragraphs, which took all of 15 min. to confirm, are a disgraceful waste? And you also have no problem with Wolter lying about his honorary degree for more than two decades?
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CFC
3/26/2013 02:00:28 am
Anyone thinking of doing business with Mr. Wolter and his company in the future will now find (thanks to Jason), that he has been making false claims about his credentials for a couple of decades. Faking information on your resume should never be tolerated.
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Jim Jones Punch
11/25/2013 10:26:28 pm
Yes super Jason to the rescue again ! I don`t know how we all stumbled through our lives with out him . You too CFC this should never be tolerated in a fascist country such as ours.
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Shane
3/26/2013 02:10:38 pm
WOW...I just started watching Scott's show and I find it fascinating. A conversation I was just having with my wife before I just googled him and found this so called blog. We spoke of the fact of how "experts" have to be right or they are no longer considered experts.
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3/27/2013 01:16:48 am
I'm starting to get annoyed with this line of attack. I've written more than 1 million words investigating alternative history, including almost 100,000 about the factual problems with America Unearthed. And yet somehow everyone who Googles Scott Wolter comes to this page and mistakes these few paragraphs for the summation of my life's work.
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Dr. Tod
4/30/2014 05:56:06 pm
You are getting annoyed at reaction to your comments on your blog... That's rich. Haha, how do you think Scott feels having to read your attacks, many of which he likely finds meritless of based on a flawed understanding?
David
2/3/2015 12:21:53 pm
Come on people, this is a TV show. Entertainment for the sake of entertainment. Debunking the show or Wolters is like debunking, Chariot of the Gods. We all understand what it is. It's entertaining. Do any of us really care if the Holy Grail is in Nova Scotia ? So just enjoy and move on to something really worthy of discussion like has Obama been replaced with an alien lookalike ?
Jerome DeWolfe
3/27/2013 06:20:05 am
I believe that what television is about is entertainment. I find America Unearthed to be good entertainment. Do you think for a minute that those idiots on MSNBC or FOX News are journalists? I find Scott Wolter an interesting character who's strong in his beliefs. Right or wrong? I'm reminded of Norman Mailer who said that some of the best fiction he's ever read goes under the heading of History. It's good that you have the juevos to comment under your own name, Jason, unlike most of these inept losers who leave little piles of their ravings all over the internet.
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3/27/2013 06:30:07 am
If you believe that the best we can aspire to in broadcasting is lying, then this is a sad time for humanity. Ideally, one could both entertain and inform at the same time. I don't really understand that argument that lies should be excused because it's "only" entertainment, as if innumerable people were not accepting it as true because the TV said so.
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jerome dewolfe
3/27/2013 08:09:25 am
Whoa! Did I use the word "lying" somewhere? You true believers read into things what you want to hear. Television is about entertainment and is laced with fiction - just look at politics. Broadcasters need advertisers and will kill to get them. The sad time for humanity is that everyone is bought off - everything has a price. 3/27/2013 08:15:17 am
My point is that it behooves all of us to hold TV to a higher standard, not to just passively accept that whatever makes money is by definition good.
terry the censor
3/27/2013 08:17:19 am
When I started looking into fringe topics a few years ago, I expected to find ambiguous facts over which people held an honest difference of opinion. I was so naive.
Sukhavati
11/26/2013 09:28:43 pm
Welcome to the real world Jason , I am glad you finally realized that television is not the real world .
jerome dewolfe
3/27/2013 11:02:57 am
Again, that's entertainment, and YOUR higher standards or the delusions of your pseudo censor's analysis (?) matter little. People apparently want to be entertained and Wolter found the key with his hooked X, since I understand his show is scheduled for another season. Hooray for Fandom!
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3/27/2013 12:29:42 pm
That's an interesting question. What is the obligation of the media: to give people only the least they will accept or to try to encourage them to want better? At one time, the argument went that TV must show broad sitcoms and didactic dramas because audiences couldn't handle sophisticated programming. And yet now we have much richer programs. It is possible to do better, and the argumentum ad populum that the dim shall inherit the earth is the excuse of those whose first priority is cash.
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Shane
3/27/2013 02:19:27 pm
"I'm starting to get annoyed with this line of attack. I've written more than 1 million words investigating alternative history, including almost 100,000 about the factual problems with America Unearthed. And yet somehow everyone who Googles Scott Wolter comes to this page and mistakes these few paragraphs for the summation of my life's work."
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3/27/2013 02:34:10 pm
"Try something new, try being positive by chasing your own dreams instead of putting down or trying to decrease someone who is achieving theirs."
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terry the censor
3/27/2013 03:34:19 pm
@Shane
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jerome dewolfe
3/27/2013 02:55:34 pm
Let us not forget that the (mean) average IQ for humanity is 100 with a SD of +- 15. This means that the average media programmer and the average person watching that program is probably sitting on a two digit IQ. The dilemma for media execs is that if they hire Friedman and Mandelbaum's "unique value creators" to create sophisticated programming, the proportion of viewers will decrease as they rise up the IQ scale. This doesn't present a healthy popular rating and is, therefore, detrimental to getting deep pocketed advertisers. For example, I imagine that Keith Olbermann attracted a high IQ audience but his ratings were affected because of the significantly lower probability of having higher IQs - so he was replaced by a more popular culture commentator and the dim has inherited the earth.
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CFC
3/27/2013 03:04:31 pm
I think Scott Wolter desperately wants to be viewed as a credible investigator. Instead he comes across like a pushy pretender making preposterous claims and proving nothing. H2 has no credibility with the professional and scholarly community and neither does Mr. Wolter.
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Jerome DeWolfe
3/27/2013 03:51:51 pm
I don't think that anyone cares about your professional and scholarly community. It's about getting viewers. Wolter and others are beginning to batter down the tired, old ivory towers of academia.
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CFC
3/27/2013 07:46:57 pm
Oh really?
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jerome dewolfe
3/28/2013 03:03:08 am
I think I wrote "…tired, old ivory towers of academia." I am not concerned about what you believe nor do I give any credibility to anyone that doesn't have the balls to use their own name on these blogs rather than hiding behind a pseudonym - meaning that you don't stand behind your little piles of wit. I admire Scott Wolter's courage and intelligence and he certainly stands up for what he believes.
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3/28/2013 03:09:33 am
I think you are confusing what people have a right to do and what makes money with what it would be good for people to do. There is a difference. No one claims Scott Wolter doesn't have the right to proclaim his views far and wide, but you must therefore agree that those who disagree also have the right to explain why we disagree with his claims.
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CFC
3/28/2013 03:13:10 am
Jerome,
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Jim Jones Punch
11/25/2013 10:38:57 pm
So you will talk to the university officials and the licensing board in the state of Minnesota about this . I bet that just scares the hell out of him considering how much pull you have . You are a joke without a punch line !
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jerome dewolfe
3/28/2013 03:28:50 am
I'm not confusing anything, colavito and if "CFC" had any smarts, all he'd have to do is google my name - can't do the same with his. All I can write at this point is to agree with Shane above: "...what is the point in being a hater. You are a shining example(s) of what is wrong with this country.
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CFC
3/28/2013 03:40:26 am
Jerome,
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shirley
8/28/2013 09:55:08 pm
OMG, CFC " our society doesn't condone lying" Have you heard the line " I did not have sexual relations with that woman" That liar continued to run the whole darn country (society) after that little fiblet.
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Ge Ki
8/29/2013 01:15:52 am
Shirley, I sure remember the Clinton lie, and I don't recall anyone condoning it. Just because he did not receive the ultimate punishment, removal from office, that doesn't mean our society condoned the lie. In fact, it cost him a tremendous amount of support and prevented him from doing a lot of what he wanted to do.
jerome dewolfe
3/28/2013 04:03:34 am
Well! CFC is getting the courage to stand behind his little piles of wit. The next step is for him to develop the courage to use his real name to the UMN. But nothing will change - Wolter will still be going around the country finding his Hooked Xs and his show will go on as scheduled next fall. There are very smart people at H2 who know to find winning smiles (now I know what Wolter is smiling about all the time).
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3/28/2013 04:19:01 am
I'm not understanding your point, Jerome. You seem to be arguing that the ends justify the means, and so long as H2 is making money no one should be concerned about their product. Does this apply in your view to other areas? For example, racist and sexist advertisements have been highly effective and made tons of money for big business in decades past. Were advocates wrong to be concerned about the messages these ads sent even though they were not illegal? Or is this just more hating on success?
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CFC
3/28/2013 04:17:16 am
My identity has been disclosed to the organizations in question and as I said before, if Jason's policy changes I'm happy to comply.
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jerome dewolfe
3/28/2013 06:02:21 am
In our (American) capitalistic society, the ends do justify the means! (See Michael Moore's piece - "Capitalism: A Love Story.") I'm not saying that I believe it, but that it's a reality of living in this country (USA). Ask the Banks if the profits from their criminal student loans are worth it. Ask the defense industry if the wars in the Middle East are worth it. Ask Congressmen if supporting the NRA is worth it. And on and on! Yes Horatio! In America, the ends do justify the means!
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3/28/2013 06:13:39 am
I don't think you're understanding my point about the difference between "is" and "ought." You are describing the way things are right now, and I am speaking of the way I feel things should be.
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Jim Jones Punch
11/25/2013 10:57:36 pm
You sound like one of those 2nd amendment haters and we all ready have plenty of gun laws . I feel sorry for you when or if you need protection and the police are 20 minutes late . bye , bye.
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jerome dewolfe
3/28/2013 06:17:24 am
Oh yeah! Did I read CFC saying something about "…false claims"? Good God man! Look at the Bush 43 administration and the false claims made about Iraq. His "false claims" that cost thousands of American and Iraqi lives, let alone trillions of dollars. Yes Horatio! W established a new tradition in this country! I believe that CFC would be well advised to attack the Republican Elephant rather than the flea crawling up its leg. But then, he lacks courage!
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3/28/2013 06:23:39 am
This is a blog about claims regarding archaeology and ancient history. If you are interested in political lies, there are plenty of forums for that.
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jerome dewolfe
3/28/2013 06:36:56 am
You remind me of Bill Clinton when he said "You have to define what is is." But the way you "feel" may be important to you, but surely not to the leaders of our capitalistic society. If dreams were horses, beggars would ride! Look at Michael Moore who couldn't even get in to see corporate CEOs and who had to stand out in the streets of Washington DC asking congressmen to please send their children to Iraq during the height of that war. No one seemed to care about what Michael Moore thought about the way "things should be." And the song plays on!
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jerome dewolfe
3/28/2013 07:04:52 am
Well wether you like it or not, your statement that "This is a blog about claims regarding archaeology and ancient history" has interfaced with that of the entertainment industry. I've said that H2s support of Wolter is a function of their entertainment industry and not academia. You confuse the two. Also, your attack on Wolter's so called "false claims" has a very strong precedent in American political history. You should try to find another outlet for venting your frustrations and leave Wolter be.
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3/28/2013 07:07:41 am
If you check my publication history, you'll see I am also a well-reviewed entertainment critic. I wrote a standard history of the horror genre.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
3/29/2013 03:39:18 pm
I must post a defense of my friend, Scott Wolter. I have known Scott for 25+ years as both a professional colleague and a personal friend (so I admit up-front that I have SOME "bias" going on, but also a long-standing understanding of Scott and his work.).
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CFC
4/6/2013 03:34:07 am
Thanks for sharing some personal perceptive as a friend of Mr. Wolter. But science is not a personal matter. It is about proof and evidence and there continues to be many questions about the Kensington Rune Stone that call into question its authenticity.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/8/2013 09:19:37 am
Yes ... The KRS studies are a DIFFERENT question than Scott's resume ...
CFC
4/8/2013 10:38:29 am
Phil,
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/8/2013 01:28:02 pm
Yes, I am entirely familiar with expectations and standards and approved processes in academic publishing and peer review ...
CFC
4/9/2013 11:27:31 am
Yes, I have read it in fact. It is a company report in a self-published book. This type of document has no standing in the scientific community.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/9/2013 02:46:50 pm
Yes, of course, I know what a scientific paper published in a peer reviewed scientific journal is, as distinct from a book such as the one under discussion.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/9/2013 02:47:00 pm
Yes, of course, I know what a scientific paper published in a peer reviewed scientific journal is, as distinct from a book such as the one under discussion.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/9/2013 02:47:30 pm
Yes, of course, I know what a scientific paper published in a peer reviewed scientific journal is, as distinct from a book such as the one under discussion.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/9/2013 02:47:36 pm
Yes, of course, I know what a scientific paper published in a peer reviewed scientific journal is, as distinct from a book such as the one under discussion. 4/9/2013 11:28:48 pm
You do know that the "Clovis-first" theory has been dead for 15 years, right? After a blue-ribbon panel of archaeologsists confirmed Monte Verde was pre-Clovis, it is now widely accepted that Clovis wasn't first. This is actually a good example of how careful scholarship accumulated information that overturned a 50-year-old paradigm. Have you studies paradigm shifts and the structure of scientific revolutions?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/10/2013 12:07:04 am
LOL ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/10/2013 12:07:09 am
LOL ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/10/2013 12:07:15 am
LOL ... 4/10/2013 12:27:30 am
What do you consider "recently"? Fifteen years is a long time. The Clovis-first hypothesis was not sacrosanct; it wasn't even that old. It lasted a few decades in the twentieth century (c. 1960-2000) when it fit the best available evidence. (Clovis points were discovered in the 1920s, but Clovis-first was proposed much later, with the now-discredited "Man the Hunter" theory.) Then, when new evidence emerged, the paradigm shifted.
CFC
4/10/2013 06:44:48 am
Rev. Phil,
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/10/2013 10:17:31 am
Well ... Again ... I am NOT a scientific naif and my affirmation of Scott's work on the KRS is all about the EVIDENCE ...
Shane Phillips
3/31/2013 01:25:40 pm
Try something new, try being positive by chasing your own dreams instead of putting down or trying to decrease someone who is achieving theirs.
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3/31/2013 01:35:19 pm
The line about condoning liars wasn't mine. I think you have confused me with CFC.
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Sukhavati
11/26/2013 09:46:21 pm
Jason you need to write a new book called : Jason Colavito for Dummies .
Shane Phillips
3/31/2013 03:56:06 pm
I guess that claiming to be a bestseller when you outsold 7 other books is news to me...Since you didn't provide any numbers to make the title look impressive, it is because it isn't, yet you still claim it yourself?
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terry the censor
4/1/2013 07:33:32 pm
@Shane
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/4/2013 03:40:32 pm
LOL ... Ironically, you are asking everyone else to make the mistake of drawing firm conclusions based upon cursory second-hand examination of very slight available evidence ... What would be the point ... ???
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/10/2013 12:02:21 pm
How many books has Erich von Daniken sold ... ???
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4/10/2013 12:05:53 pm
About one third as many as the For Dummies series. Draw your own conclusion.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/10/2013 04:39:47 pm
I understand that "novels" by Jackie Collins always sell REALLY well ...
scott lund
10/11/2013 05:36:10 pm
Jason, you have mail.....Rev. Gotsch, if you would be so kind, could you please look for an email from me if I can find your email? I linked to this comment because it is buried in the middle of the comments and a it goes to both of you, and only both of you.
Denzil
4/9/2013 12:15:55 pm
Hello everyone and welcome to my nightmare!!!!
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Denzil
4/9/2013 12:31:21 pm
((Sorry, hit the wrong button. I HATE netbooks. The keyboards are way too small.))
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4/9/2013 01:07:01 pm
Thank you for your comments. You're right that in science any finding is provisional, but I hope you are able to recognize that Wolter's claims have extremely low probabilities of being true.
Tay
4/16/2013 04:11:32 pm
Found this site from Wikipedia, trying to see if the show has another season. Glad it does. Scott is a hero for shining a light on the pompous academic world. "Scholars" have been proven wrong so many times I don't believe a word they say. And archeologists are the worst. It isn't much of a science since they don't actually perform too many experiments to back up their pontifications. They mainly rob graves.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/16/2013 04:30:37 pm
No ... Modern archaeologists are NOT "grave robbers" any more, in the infamous mold of "Indiana Jones" and such ... They DO frequently, however, sometimes wildly over-interpret their data ...
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Tay
4/17/2013 12:39:07 pm
Well, actually, by definition;
terry the censor
4/16/2013 04:46:47 pm
> Scott is a hero for shining a light on the pompous academic world.
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Lexi T
4/17/2013 12:11:26 am
This is directed at Scott F. Wolter. As I see he was participating in this discussion, and is probably paying attention to it still. I wanted to ask if he is planning any adventures in Utah? Many things to see here.
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4/17/2013 12:27:22 am
You obviously misunderstand me. One does not need a degree to make a contribution to a field. The issue I was addressing was Mr. Wolter's twenty years of lying about a non-existent degree. None of the scientists you cited lied about degrees, either to the public or to government accrediting agencies. It is not an insult to point out that Mr. Wolter's resume contained a falsehood for two decades.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/17/2013 02:50:35 am
Discussing and critiquing a study or a claim is one thing; attacking or demeaning a person is another ...
Lexi T
4/17/2013 12:00:56 pm
My apologies for any misunderstanding. But my statement was mainly directed at those who are tearing down his work, and his show. As for his degree and him "lying", people are liars; it is in human nature to lie. I am sure that if Mr. Wolter lied as you so bluntly put it, as you stated he allowed an idea to be presented about him that wasn't accurately true. If was done, it was to give himself credibility, in a scholar society who readily dismiss non “Educated” claims. As even known scholars even try to discredit fellow scholars. If you read Paul Ekman's studies on human emotion and why people lie, you might be more understanding. 4/17/2013 12:05:04 pm
If you read Mr. Wolter's comments on this blog post, Mr. Wolter confirmed and admitted to the deception, so it is not a question of other people making claims.
Rob
4/25/2013 07:05:15 pm
What's funny is I know for a fact I am richer than you, so how about I buy out this website to shut you up. More funny is I'm not kidding. And if i get a stupid comment from you....well say goodnight
Lexi T
4/17/2013 01:46:22 pm
I did read his remarks including this "Was it officially recognized by the University? No. They gave it to me as I have always presented it to be, a sympathy degree. At the time I was quite proud and when I told my then supervisors at my new job at Twin City Testing, they published the story in the company newsletter and added it to my resume’. Not long ago, the question was asked by the State licensing board if it was an official degree and I said no. Because I didn’t want my professors who now in their eighties to have to answer questions about this, I removed it from my resume’". I believe he also said your information was partially correct, and partially wrong. So, again I restate my previous response. And add that though your publications and articles are interesting. It is ironic that you base all of your work on discrediting Pseudoscience and the people who make money off of it, when you in fact make money writing articles and books trying to disprove there theories. Well, this was enlightening. I will not be responding further as I have better things to do, than argue the arrogance of someone who thinks themselves all knowing. I base my previous comments and this one on facts, something this article was clearly not written with. Which is also ironic, because you are trying to disprove others theories with facts, yet you couldn't obtain actual facts for this blog post, and the person it was written about, even had to point that out. I wish you the best of luck in all your endeavors!
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4/17/2013 01:54:47 pm
Scott Wolter did not challenge any of the facts in this blog post. They are all documented. I did not accuse him of anything in the blog post. I only pointed out the lack of documentation.
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Karilyne Reid
4/18/2013 07:37:26 am
Hi Everyone - Can't help but weigh in on this - At the end of the day, talent and effort are what garners the respect and interest from others when you have the courage to put yourself out there. Scott Wolter puts himself out there with what he discovers/believes, and you've got to give him credit for that. Degrees are great for those who have the educational opportunity, but 27yrs as a military/Gov analyst have taught me that they aren't the only basis for respecting someone else's ideas. I admire Scott's show because it gives me something new to think about. I'm free to come to my own conclusions. He seems like a good guy to me, and he's got the guts to put himself out there.
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TheBeast
4/23/2013 05:20:50 pm
Well I ha e read half of this blog and all I see are may Sayers and critics. What I haven't seen is anything that says you (Jason) are worth taking seriously. All you do is bash Scott over a "honorary degree" story. You are the true list here. Stick to your fiction writing and keep your "hating" to yourself. You are not a shining light of truth or a seeker of real enlightenment. So what have you done to contribute? I don't care if Scott lies about his entire life as long as he tried to reveal a truth that "IS" out there.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/24/2013 10:55:18 am
One of the valuable -- very real -- contributions made by Scott Wolter's show is simply raising possibilities for further investigation by interested scholars ... If they do or do not follow up depends upon their inclinations and available funding ... What is unfortunate is a knee-jerk response of, "Couldn't be so ...," or "Who the heck does Scott Wolter think HE is ... ???," or simply, "Oh YEAH ... ???" ...
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CFC
4/26/2013 01:07:35 am
Mr. Wolter refuses to put his claims to the test in a manner that can be reviewed and verified by the scientific community. He doesn't have evidence! He has a marketing strategy to promote his claims on this silly program, where there is no fact checking and entertainment is the name of the game.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/26/2013 01:43:31 am
You seem to be confused ... The history channel stuff is a TV SHOW ...
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Maureen G. O'Brien
5/2/2013 03:55:07 am
Mr. Wolter is absolutely right about one thing - nearly everything we have been taught about History in America is a LIE. I mean really, how many people in the U.S. believe JFK assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald? What about the Nazi Project Paperclip scientists, CIA founders and MK-Ultra 'doctors'? At the very least, I am surprised that the Disney-owned History Channel would even explore this material, and as we all should know, the Disney Corporation is just the fuzzy, cute arm of the Military/Industrial Complex - Walt and the Nazi Werner Von Braun were buddies - but he was just taking orders.....
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
5/2/2013 04:03:44 am
Walt Disney WAS a space alien ... Everybody knows that ... How else to explain his amazing advances in animation technology ... ???
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J Rester
5/5/2013 04:36:10 pm
I'm not a huge fan of the show. I barely watch tv because it isn't a reliable source for anything. I will say this, however: The truth is often stranger than fiction, and you should always consider the message separately from the messenger. We tend to demonize a messenger who tells us bad news or something that makes us uncomfortable.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
5/5/2013 04:41:31 pm
ONE lesson of history is that the currently fashionable accepted VERSION of "history" ISN'T necessarily entirely true and correct ...
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Ugh. I get so tired of hearing this "fake credentials" crap. It's like ordination through the Universal Life Church. "But it's not a real ordination, so you can't preach." It's like telling Jebus that he couldn't spread the Word of God because he wasn't a Jewish high priest with lots of gold swag.
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Americanegro
9/4/2016 03:17:27 am
Dude, his "honorary degree" was LITERALLY a cup of coffee, and he lied about it until he got caught. I personally am of the opinion that even the cup of coffee story is one of Wolter's many LIES. He says he pulled it off the resume because he didn't want his professors to be bothered. That's BS. The licensing board asked him about it, probably in the "hey, got any proof of that?" kind of way.
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Ge Ki
9/6/2016 03:29:45 am
Right on, Americanegro. Gary, lying is bad. Honesty is the life blood of scholarship. Anyone can make sh1t up, so we have be able to trust each other. Scott Wolter has produced so much BS that he has forfeited any right to complain when people don't believe him.
I may be a little late to jump into the fray - but I just finished Scott's book "Hooked X", and saw his shows on H2. He does a great job in his research, and one needs an open mind to understand the issues. C'mon folks - it's TV, and actually pretty interesting stuff. Would you rather watch Bigfoot or Swamp People? It's what ever you find interesting and entertaining, regardless of his credentials.
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CFC
5/18/2013 12:25:57 pm
I would say Swamp People and Big Foot are a cut above watching someone who has faked his credentials and claims he has authenticated an artifact using methods that aren’t recognized or supported by the scientific community. At least with those programs you know you are watching nonsense.
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Jason Stern
6/3/2013 02:29:16 pm
all you people who are just sitting at home behind your computer terminal bashing what someone else s out there working on can go fuck themselves. he maybe right, he may be wrong, but at least he is out there using his brain to try to understand what none of us know on this rock. I may not agree with all his theories myself, but what is certain is we dont have the whole picture that is why there theories. so if you dont agree or think he is wrong get of your ass and go out there and make some of your own!!!
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
6/3/2013 03:18:34 pm
"Bashing" certainly is one of the most frequent favorite uses of the inter-net, isn't it ... ???
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Jason Stern
6/4/2013 10:09:52 am
its a way to make themselves feel better about their own crappy life's in fact there probably mainly jealous that someone has the attention their lacing so they just plain hate instead of having a open mind. 6/4/2013 10:12:40 am
Scott Wolter's degree makes no difference to whether his claims are true. I have an entire book exploring why his claims aren't true based on the facts, not his degree or lack thereof.
Americanegro
9/4/2016 03:21:28 am
Jason Stern, you wrote:
Louis Sheffield
1/26/2015 02:27:16 am
I know this. I have two boys who watch regularly. And now they are always picking rocks up and examining them wherever they can. One wants to be a Geologist and ask for a book on geology for Christmas rather than a video game. If his theories aren't correct then there's no more harm than him learning that Henry Ford invented the automobile. But at least they're interested in something produ time. Thank you Scott Wolter.
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Robert Goodyear
1/26/2015 06:04:59 am
Louise Shitfield,
Rev. Phil Gotsch
6/4/2013 12:26:57 pm
Nonsense ...
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6/4/2013 12:48:45 pm
That was sort of the point of my hyperbole. But Wolter has spent more time on alternative history over the years than I have, though. He's been at it since 2001; I've done this on occasion from 2001 but in earnest only after 2010.
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Kathryn Zambito
1/18/2015 01:27:13 pm
Jason
Jason Stern
6/8/2013 02:16:01 pm
so which Jason you talking to. cause You do realize I'm not A
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
6/4/2013 01:44:58 pm
LOL ... Be careful ... !!! As it is written, "Patriotism and piety are the last refuge of a scoundrel ..."
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6/4/2013 01:55:45 pm
I'm not sure I follow you. So alternative historians like Wolter get to advocate an extreme position, but critics must be "even-handed"?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
6/4/2013 02:25:15 pm
In my experience, genuine scholarship worthy of that name MUST be even-handed and thoughtful and careful -- NOT "personal" ...
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6/4/2013 02:27:10 pm
Thank you for agreeing that Scott Wolter's work is not scholarship since it is not even-handed, not careful, and is littered with personal attacks against alleged conspirators against him. With that, I think this discussion has come to a fruitful close.
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Rev. Phi Gotsch
6/4/2013 02:32:28 pm
LOL ... Nice try, but "no cigar" ... 6/4/2013 02:35:45 pm
Did you watch his show? He accused academics and historians of conspiracies to suppress the truth at least a dozen times across 13 episodes, accused the U.S. government and the Minnesota government of conspiracies, cited a vague "bullshit" conspiracy by an unnamed "these people" to prevent him from investigating, and offered specific character attacks against Scott Dawson.
terry the censor
6/4/2013 02:51:16 pm
Rev, please, it's clear you are demanding a double standard. You scrutinise Jason for his evidence, his arguments, even his tone, simply everything -- and that's fine in itself. But you don't apply this same standard to Mr. Wolter.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
6/4/2013 02:44:26 pm
Yes, I watched the episodes ... They're TV shows ... !!! Scott Wolter did not script or direct or produce them ... Lighten up ...
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6/4/2013 02:51:22 pm
Did I disagree with you on that? I evaluated his claims based on evidence, but in places he forced himself into the narrative by making himself the story, which meant that I had to evaluate him as part of the evidence. My reviews are all online, so you can see clearly how that worked.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
6/4/2013 04:25:38 pm
I'm saying what I said ...
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Magnus from Sweden
6/21/2013 11:22:04 am
Im totally astounded after watching the episode about Wollters "runestone" claims... Obviously he will cling to his "theories" and see conspiracies wherever there are contradicting facts. So far, nothing strange.
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CFC
6/24/2013 05:43:14 am
Magnus
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James
6/24/2013 11:03:59 am
Jason.
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6/24/2013 12:09:41 pm
I must confess that I am a bit confused. If I understand you correctly, you're asking for a "frank" discussion of issues, but you seem to feel that only when one rejects the mainstream view is a person being "frank" and fair. What if my frank and unbiased view is that alterantive claims don't hold water? If you read the excerpt of my "Cult of Alien Gods" in the Books section of my website, you'll see that I do not approach this material with the intent to oppose any new idea; instead, I look to explore evidence.
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Mark
7/6/2013 06:34:37 pm
Jason,
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7/6/2013 11:27:56 pm
I don't say that, and I specified that it is my *book* that was an Amazon.com bestseller: "His Critical Companion to Ancient Aliens became an Amazon.com bestseller in the archaeology category in 2012." That, even if you don't like it, is a fact. It was on the list. Therefore you did not just "read" that; and even if you had, "bestseller" is a relative, not absolute, descriptor; some New York Times bestsellers, depending on category and date, have sold only a few thousand copies at the time of being so honored.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/7/2013 02:46:20 am
Yup ... Books like "Chariots of the Gods" and "Gold of the Gods" and novels by Jackie Collins have sold multiple MILLIONS of copies and gone through many reprints ... 7/7/2013 03:21:11 am
Were popular opinion the measure of truth, we would be living in a very different world. What exactly is the purpose of chiming in to chide me for a claim that I am not making?
CFC
7/7/2013 09:02:02 am
Mark -
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/7/2013 10:15:01 am
The H2 shows certainly have *sparked* some interesting conversations and thoughts about some of these history questions ...
terry the censor
7/7/2013 06:24:29 pm
@Rev. Phil
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/7/2013 03:38:24 am
I "chimed in" on a discussion re: what it means that a book is described or designated as a "best seller" ... Is that a problem ... ???
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/8/2013 01:36:38 am
Rational straight-forward investigation and discussion of these interesting questions is a different thing than TRASHING a person and/or his/her background and intellect and motives, etc. ...
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7/8/2013 03:20:19 am
It's not trashing someone to point out a fabricated credential, unless you think that anyone should be allowed to claim non-existent degrees. You might also note that this post, a fact-based post which Wolter himself admitted was correct, is the only time of discussed Wolter's personal life outside of his claims, except where he has himself inserted his credentials or personal life into his claims.
terry the censor
7/8/2013 08:31:19 pm
@Rev. Phil Gotsch
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/11/2013 01:43:41 pm
Again ... The issue re: the H2 channel TV shows OUGHT to be about their content, the claims, the conclusions ... NOT the host ...
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7/11/2013 01:51:40 pm
Thank you, Captain Obvious. That would be why I carefully reviewed all of the programs based on their facts. But you don't seem to think that the broader story of alternative history as a movement, and one that simultaneously appropriates and denigrates academia, is of any interest. This single and singular post reported another fact, which, as I have said, does not impact the claims made on TV but is nevertheless part of the ongoing story of alternative history and its penchant for aping the prestige of academia: See David Childress's claims about being an archaeologist, or Sean David Morton's purchased "Ph.D.-equivalency" degree. While none of these borrowed trappings impact the specific claims made, they contribute to how the audience perceives the reliability and trustworthiness of the individuals. After all, "Reverend," you ask us to afford you an adjective prefixed to your praenomen because that word means something to you. When alternative history speculators appropriate academic honors, they clothe their ideas in borrowed credibility, a story all the more astounding since to the man they believe the academics they ape are in conspiracies to suppress the truth.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/11/2013 02:07:12 pm
Well ... I don't buy into ANY conspiracy theories or claims ... 7/11/2013 11:27:44 pm
Because the thirty or so years Clovis-first was en vogue was an excruciatingly long time? The idea came to prominence in the 1960s and was on its way out by the 1990s. By comparison, the Piltdown Man hoax lasted forty years.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/12/2013 07:23:57 am
The "Clovis Date" (New Mexico) and The "Piltdown Hoax" (England) have NOTHING in common ...
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7/12/2013 07:30:41 am
It's you who doesn't understand. The existence of the Clovis culture is not in doubt; it's date is well established. The CLAIM that Clovis was the FIRST culture in America is what had a good run in the twentieth century before giving way to new evidence. The existence of the Clovis culture does NOT imply that it was necessarily the first. There is no red herring; I was trying to show that incorrect ideas can have a remarkably long life before falling to better evidence. You're the one who keeps harping on the idea that the way textbooks were written when you were in high school is somehow a calcified dogma that has always been and will always be. That kind of textual inerrancy belongs only to the most literal branches of Bible study.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/12/2013 10:26:18 am
Patiently ... for the several-teenth time ... 7/12/2013 10:35:20 am
Mr. Wolter has worked with A+E Networks to try to use the legal system to silence me. This is not scientific debate. I'm not inclined to see him as sweetness and light in light of these actions.
Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:29:35 pm
"For a few DECADES, whenever an archaeologist found and published any carbon date for a site that was OLDER than "Clovis" ... the ROUTINE knee-jerk rejection of that date was put forward NOT on basis that the excavation was improperly done or that the lab techniques were obviously sloppy or any such thing ... but rather that everyone already KNOWS that The "Clovis Date" is THE oldest, so that any OLDER date is simply WRONG ... by DEFINITION ..."
Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:27:26 pm
The Clovis business and the Piltdown man were equally accepted. They have that in common. When I was young, Clovis was a new view, now that I'm older it's been discredited. If Wolter were a proponent of Clovis, he would accuse those who discarded it as "conspiring to commit academic fraud" and being "clowns" and "criminals" as he did with Nielsen and Williams, his erstwhile partners in the runestone work.
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7/12/2013 07:38:10 am
I am quite honestly popping my cherry as I type. The episode I'm watching is attempting to connect the Minoans with copper deposits located in the Great Lakes. It is quite a farce. I'd rather expose myself to gale-force winds equipped with sharp debris than continue the show. It is absolutely a worse show than ancient aliens, which is an accomplishment I incorrectly believed was not an obchievable feat. Nevertheless, I will continue watching in the name is debunking, so as to equip myself with fodder with which I can dispute the true believers. With this knowledge I will achieve recognition shared by other great debunkers, such as snopes, or popular mechanics when they blew away the highly dubious documentary Loose Change. The time for being facetious is over. GG
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7/12/2013 07:40:25 am
Please feel free to read my debunking reviews of each episode (located in the "America Unearthed" tab or by searching for episode names in my site's search box), and if you are so inclined, I have a book called "Unearthing the Truth" (print and eBook) to read even more about this. You can find the book under the "Books" tab above.
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CFC
7/12/2013 11:38:20 am
Phil,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/12/2013 12:44:21 pm
On the contrary, Scott developed and VERY thoroughly followed several lines of evidence, all of which indicate (do not PROVE, but strongly indicate) that The Kensington Rune Stone DOES date from 1362 ...
terry the censor
8/6/2013 09:31:49 am
Rev Phil, you've been asked twice to address directly Wolter's false claim about his credentials. Again:
Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:31:10 pm
After the destructive testing Wolter did it should be called the Kensington Ruinstone, amirite ladies? 7/12/2013 07:50:02 am
That sounds excellent. Keep truckin', so to speak. There are plenty others who share the inquisitive and skeptical spirit. We must constantly imbibe this spirit, so as to accomplish the great feat of proving shows like this that ascribe to the truly untenable arguments perpendicular to historical logic and available evidence.
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CFC
7/12/2013 02:27:36 pm
Phil
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/12/2013 04:26:10 pm
I have followed his work on the KRS very closely ... I was initially completely skeptical, but having seen the evidence up-close, I am now 99% convinced that it is authentic (not "proven," but supported by several lines of evidence) ...
Bruce Hedquist
7/12/2013 09:05:02 am
Jason, where is my previous post sent an hour ago?
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7/12/2013 09:42:41 am
I don't have one from you from an hour ago on this thread. Was it on a different thread?
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Bruce Hedquist
7/12/2013 09:08:04 am
Test
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/12/2013 10:30:05 am
Bruce ...
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Allison Lane
7/12/2013 10:35:49 am
I just landed here after doing a Google search for "America Unearthed", as H2 appears to be running a marathon of it and my father called me out to ask if I'd ever heard of the guy hosting it. (I hadn't.) The show strikes me as one trying way too hard to reach for sensationalism and conspiracy theories. Reading the synopses for each episode had me laughing in disbelief--especially the one for "Mystery at Roanoke", since one of my instructors at the University of Bristol, Mark Horton, has been conducting archaeological field work there. I have to wonder what he would think of it.
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7/12/2013 10:44:34 am
Be sure to click my "America Unearthed" category above or use my site's search box to search for episode titles. I've written full reviews of the entire series, and you can also find my expanded coverage in my book (print and eBook) "Unearthing the Truth" in the Books section above.
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Allison Lane
7/12/2013 11:03:14 am
Actually, I'm beginning to think that might not be a good idea, because I've been going backwards through your blog entries and if I start reading them in earnest I may never leave... 7/12/2013 11:13:57 am
Well, that's the point, isn't it? I'm going to put up an index to my America Unearthed reviews later tonight in the Articles section above so you can pick and choose what to read more easily!
CFC
7/12/2013 11:40:19 am
Five more copies of your book just arrived today Jason. More orders will be coming soon!!!
JAMDFH
7/12/2013 12:50:55 pm
Who cares about the authenticity of an Honorary Degree? Have you seen some of the douche-bags that have received Honorary Degrees? Is his Geology degree authentic? Is his work in geology authentic? Let's not forget that Carl Sagan was an astonomer and delved into all kinds of topics with a popular TV show--this from a guy who theorized about possible mammals on Venus prior to probes revealing the uninhabitable atmosphere.
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7/12/2013 01:02:44 pm
To whom are these comments directed? Surely not me since you betray no familiarity with the rich respect for the past in my many works, nor even with my reviews of America Unearthed, linked above.
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Alan Watts
12/10/2013 11:36:10 am
I know as a little boy you were very disappointed that Americas Stonehenge not being big as the one in England . So since then Jason has been on a personal crusade to debunk everything he does not like on T.V. Sounds like you need to put your childhood disappointments behind and put your " big boy pants on " and deal with it . And remember you have a remote control and change the channel . 12/10/2013 11:39:35 am
Just as you should deal with the fact that facts remain stubbornly true even though I am the one presenting them. And remember, you have a web browser and can surf on over to a website better aligned to your beliefs.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/15/2013 11:34:58 am
Yes ...
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7/12/2013 01:13:39 pm
Jason, can you please change your blog settings so it shows most recent posts first on down to oldest? It is a royal pain to have to scroll down for five minutes on my droid phone!! Plus so hard to type with the frigging "blue drop" cursor bouncing all around!
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7/12/2013 01:15:43 pm
Jason, can you please change your blog settings so it shows most recent posts first on down to oldest? It is a royal pain to have to scroll down for five minutes on my droid phone!! Plus so hard to type with the frigging "blue drop" cursor bouncing all around! Why the fuck does it give me an error message all the damn time????
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7/12/2013 01:24:51 pm
Unfortunately, I can't change the settings. Weebly doesn't give me that power. As for the error messages, that's another Weebly bug. Feel free to contact Weebly.com to complain about their buggy blog code.
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Ge Ki
7/12/2013 05:27:57 pm
Good news, world! Peer review is obsolete! Scott Wolters and Rev. Phil have appointed new arbiters of truth - themselves!! Who needs hundreds of highly-trained scientists to review Wolters' data, when the world has Wolters and Rev. Phil to do it?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/13/2013 01:39:14 am
Where do you get such nonsense ... ??? Neither Scott Wolter nor I have made any such claim ...
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CFC
7/13/2013 02:19:03 am
Phil-
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/13/2013 12:48:02 pm
Scott Wolter was retained by others to investigate the KRS ... He did so ... Have you read his book (report) on the KRS ... ??? Where in your opinion was his work on the KRS suspect or sloppy or lacking rigor ... ???
Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:36:25 pm
It is 100% true that Wolter has re-defined "peer review" to mean "running by my friends and employees". This avoids frustrating incidents like people pointing out where he's wrong or chiding him for the destructive testing of the Kensington Ruinstone.
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CFC
7/14/2013 06:20:22 am
Phil-
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 07:47:47 am
Anyone who wishes to check or evaluate or test Scott Wolter's work on the Kensington Rune Stone certainly can do so at any time ... (What in his book would NOT be available to other investigators ... ???)
Suzanne
7/13/2013 07:25:13 pm
Golly. Y'all made my head spin.
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Elliot Young
7/14/2013 04:12:30 am
@Everyone
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 06:11:37 am
Again ... Gotta remember that the H2 TV shows are just that -- they're TV SHOWS ... They're NOT scholarly dissertation/documentaries ...
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7/14/2013 06:34:46 am
The "Hour of Power" is also a TV show. I agree with you wholeheartedly that viewers should be wary of any strange claims put forward by TV. You can't trust anything those weird guys in robes say on TV.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 07:20:30 am
Ah ... "snark" ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 07:24:03 am
Maybe you're just a bit jealous because -- despite your immense international reputation as a best-selling author and brilliant de-bunker -- you don't host a TV show of your own ... ??? 7/14/2013 07:31:23 am
There we go with the jealousy again. Amazing the way you're willing to project selfish or nefarious motives onto everyone except for the man who claimed a fake degree, tried to use the legal system to silence me, and makes outrageous claims that even you admit aren't true.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 07:37:51 am
I dunno ... Your comments about these matters quickly become "testy" and snarky and distinctly "personal" rather than measured and scholarly ...
Elliot Young
7/14/2013 04:20:23 am
Please Note:
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Elliot Young
7/14/2013 04:20:36 am
Please Note:
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 02:10:21 pm
For some reason (which I suspect I fully understand) my "subscription" to this blog has been recently "cancelled" several times ...
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7/14/2013 02:13:24 pm
It's probably just a hiccup with the Weebly blog platform. I have no control over blog subscriptions as they are managed by Weebly's automated software. But thanks for the conspiracy theory. Obviously I am seeking revenge on you not by deleting your comments or closing this thread but by messing with your subscription settings so you actually have to visit the page directly. Nefarious!
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/14/2013 02:29:26 pm
LOL ... Thanks for the info. ...
Teacher
7/15/2013 12:47:49 am
I am a teacher and would not recommend the History Channel or any of these programs to my students. The programs are not well researched and provide inaccurate information. The fact that Mr. Wolter the host of American Unearthed has misrepresented his creditials is shocking. There should be consequences for this type of misconduct. Shame on those who promote him and these programs.
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Ge Ki
7/15/2013 02:03:16 am
I agree with Teacher 100%. Wolters and Rev. Phil have excused Wolters' lying about his so-called "honorary degree," consisting of a "whipped-cream-topped coffee" given to him at an "informal reception". This is utterly laughable. We must teach our children not to accept lies or the people who tell them, or the people who excuse them.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/15/2013 03:06:17 am
I haven't "recommended" anyone watching the H2 "America Unearthed" shows either ...
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CFC
7/21/2013 05:10:47 pm
You continue to make excuses for Mr. Wolter's misconduct. I wouldn't call that friendship. It's called enabling.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/21/2013 05:22:58 pm
LOL ... Excuse me ... ???
Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:41:06 pm
How is he your "professional colleague"?? I lean toward the belief that you are Wolter's alter ego.
Bimmerella
9/18/2013 07:43:34 am
THANK YOU TEACHER! I think the fact Wolter lied, or even that he may have been less than honest (which is still less than true, which means lie) SHOULD make any other claim he makes suspect. I'm quite frankly baffled as to why this concept confuses anyone. Tell us please rev Phil, why this shouldnt be a big red flag????
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Ricardo Guzman Lopez
7/16/2013 09:05:52 am
I've always enjoyed the episodes of America Unearthed, sometimes I found them a little weird and hard to believe, but I remember... "wait, the social sciences, they are not real sciences" so, those kinda of studies can change in anytime. I actually go to the university to get my historian degree, so from experience I can tell there is no such things as SOCIAL SCIENCES. All of them suffer of what today is named "Physics Envy", the social pseudo-sciences wants to hard be at the level of real sciences they forget their limits, and begin to pull out of the sleeve weird methods to prove themselves. The History, Anthropology, Psychology...etc begin from conjectures, observation, empirism and aphorisms, they still use those methods, so they are valid as the Cryptozoology, Ufology and the other pseudosciences.
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Geologuy
7/17/2013 02:54:44 pm
An ad for 'America Unearthed' on the History channel just aired here in Canada, As a geologist for many years, I was intrigued, so I googled Wolter and found this fascinating website discussing all sorts of fraud and inneundos. Thanks Jason for putting this site together. Apparently it is the episode about some burial site in Arizona. I will try to keep an open mind but the ad alone pretty much put me in skeptic mode, largely because it implied that a geologist is qualified to do archeology. There are probably some insulted archeologists out there who haven't found this site yet. It does come on after 'Swamp People', in which English-speaking people need subtitles to explain why they shoot unarmed alligators. Now that's science!
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/17/2013 03:00:00 pm
In fact, for now several decades is is not uncommon for an archaeology TEAM to include a geologist ...
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Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:43:18 pm
"In fact, for now several decades is is not uncommon for an archaeology TEAM to include a geologist ..."
Robert
7/18/2013 06:21:55 am
Mr.Wolter:
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Robert
7/20/2013 03:06:23 am
Hello Scott:
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Robert
7/20/2013 03:06:39 am
Hello Scott:
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Robert
7/20/2013 03:07:05 am
Hello Scott:
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Robert
7/20/2013 03:16:00 am
I'm sorry. It appears a typo has happened and some of my statement above was "repeated."
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Robert
7/20/2013 03:09:49 am
I accept the H2 show for what it is: entertainment. It is NOT intended as as scientific treatise. The show has NO obligation other than to its investors (unfortunately). Still, it fires up the imagination and makes a person wonder about how much we really know about the beginnings of our country.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/20/2013 05:28:06 pm
The writing and re-writing of history is a never-finished task ... In order for our understandings of history to grow and deepen, there certainly are times when a received orthodoxy MUST be challenged, even if awkwardly ...
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Mary
7/21/2013 11:40:46 am
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/21/2013 11:56:38 am
LOL ... Who could disagree ... ???
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Ge Ki
7/22/2013 08:25:00 am
And those claiming to be authorities must be challenged, especially when they claim false credentials.
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Ge Ki
7/22/2013 08:25:12 am
And those claiming to be authorities must be challenged, especially when they claim false credentials.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/22/2013 09:29:27 am
I don't think that an "Honorary Degree" constitutes a "credential," per se, but is simply a notice of significant achievement ...
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7/22/2013 10:34:24 am
His bachelor's degree is real, and he was profiled for that reason. Giorgio Tsoukalos was profiled in my college's alumni magazine back when he was a bodybuilding promoter, so it's not a particularly high bar to clear.
CFC
7/22/2013 10:37:05 am
Phil- Why not contact UMD and see what they think of the claim of an honorary degree from their institution. Let us know if they believe he's behaved honorably.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/22/2013 10:52:04 am
You're kidding, right ... ??? You think that the University of Minnesota-Duluth graduates so FEW Bachelor's Degrees that they ALL eventually receive a full page article in the Alumni magazine ... ???
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/22/2013 10:55:41 am
Well, again ... I personally and professionally know some of Scott Wolter's geology profs -- Profs. Drs. Matsch and Ojakangas ... and I know for a fact that THEY are not ashamed of their former student, now colleague ...
Americanegro
9/4/2016 01:50:04 pm
Rev. Scott, I mean Phil, an honorary degree is a "credential" when you put it on your resume and only pull it after the state body that licenses you asked if it was real.
CFC
7/22/2013 10:51:50 am
Exactly!!!
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CFC
7/22/2013 11:14:22 am
My comment "exactly" was in reference to Ge Ki who said it well, "Bottom line: he is dishonest. I cannot trust someone like this."
Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/22/2013 12:20:45 pm
LOL ... The only perfectly totally honest person who ever lived is Jesus of Nazareth, and he was killed for it ...
Frank Burke
7/30/2013 12:02:12 pm
So like others being bored I accidentally turned on a re-run of 'America Unearthed' and subsequent to that found this blog. Thank goodness for that as at first I thought I was just being harsh in my reaction to the 'American Maya Secrets'. First, I live in Minnesota and had to chuckle about the 'whipped cream coffee' certificate of an honorary masters degress .... this is something right out of an episode of Prairie Home Companion as somehow substantative of, well, nothing.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/30/2013 12:11:55 pm
Yes ...the H2 "America Unearthed" TV shows are TV shows ... Even some fairly well-done shows on The Discovery channel ("How the Earth was Made") ... make me *wince* ...
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Bimmerella
9/18/2013 07:59:22 am
I AM RIGHT WITH FRANK ON THIS ONE!
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coogleman5
7/30/2013 01:54:24 pm
You never did say anything to (TheTruthRevieled) I guess he got you. You are false advertising about your best selling book. And can't back it up. I don't care either way. But I took the time to read all of this crap,you could of at least replied to him
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7/30/2013 02:05:15 pm
How many times am I supposed to answer the same question? I said my book was an Amazon.com Best Seller in the Archaeology category in December 2012. It was. It hasn't been before or since. It isn't false advertising to say something that's true. Are you aware that "Best Seller" isn't a numeric designation? None of my books has sold more than a few thousand copies, but then again there have been New York Times bestsellers that have sold that few copies some weeks. Some Wall Street Journal "best sellers" sell only 3,000 copies. I don't think it will shock anyone to know that the archaeology category is not home to the biggest sellers in the book industry.
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geologuy
7/31/2013 07:19:22 pm
I finally saw an episode, the one about Michigan copper. Michigan is an interesting place as copper occurs naturally as a metal (instead of being combined with sulfur, which more common), so it could be directly turned into tools by ancient peoples without much effort. Scott interpreted much of the geology correctly and didn't try to read too much into what he saw. One point where he mis-interpreted results was when the Michigan native copper chemistry was compared to Minoan copper chemistry. He argued similarities based on 99.9% Cu purity, compared to a copper ingot form a sunken Minoan ship with similar purity, supported a common source. That is bad science. Natural native copper will likely have a similar bulk composition to smelted copper if only copper is compared. What is needed is a comparison of the 'trace elements' that comprise that 0.9% of the copper from Michigan. Scott should take his sample, smelt it into an ingot, then compare the trace element signature (all of the trace elements and their relative abundances) of his ingot to the Minoan ingot. Trace elements are the true DNA of metals in archeology and are applicable to silver and gold artifacts as well.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/1/2013 01:00:05 am
I agree ... The entire Minoan Copper episode was ... shall we say, unconvincing ...
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Daniel Schmidt
8/3/2013 05:08:31 am
Couldn't care less whether Scott has a "degree"... I know a lot of incompetent Phd.'s... Most are in fact useless academics... Fools who study fools for paper and a piece of the action, have little to be proud of; when Truth is ignored for that.
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Ge Ki
8/3/2013 09:31:29 am
Spoken like someone who hasn't studied and sweated for years to earn a Ph.D. Are there "incompetent" Ph.D.s? Sure, a few. But contrary to your denigration of education, I'll guarantee you this: In any given subject, the percentage of incompetent people without a Ph.D. is far higher than the percentage of incompetent Ph.D.s.
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Ge Ki
8/3/2013 09:31:45 am
Spoken like someone who hasn't studied and sweated for years to earn a Ph.D. Are there "incompetent" Ph.D.s? Sure, a few. But contrary to your denigration of education, I'll guarantee you this: In any given subject, the percentage of incompetent people without a Ph.D. is far higher than the percentage of incompetent Ph.D.s.
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Ge Ki
8/3/2013 09:31:58 am
Spoken like someone who hasn't studied and sweated for years to earn a Ph.D. Are there "incompetent" Ph.D.s? Sure, a few. But contrary to your denigration of education, I'll guarantee you this: In any given subject, the percentage of incompetent people without a Ph.D. is far higher than the percentage of incompetent Ph.D.s.
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Daniel Schmidt
8/4/2013 08:49:16 am
There are many ways to get a good education... some not so proud and boastful... or protective. What is truth; that would be a True subject? Is all this about a lie? Really? That's the whole purpose for this? Than too many words have been wasted... Phd. or otherwise... the subject is disgraceful; for those like us who enter into it... Just grievances; a way to settle pet peeves... what are you protecting? The question is simply rhetorical... not personal. Just happened to come across this silly conversation then. Sorry. Keep talking if this is what it means to you and I will stay away.
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Daniel H Schmidt
8/4/2013 09:02:54 am
Sorry, Ge Ki, just ran thru your other replies... some things are just hard to defend aren't they?
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Ge Ki
8/4/2013 09:49:10 am
Daniel, I'm afraid I don't understand your posts. Perhaps if you could elaborate on your views.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/4/2013 02:43:11 pm
Again ... Patiently ... The whole bit about Scott Wolter's "honorary degree" -- or not -- is simply an ad hominem distraction ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/4/2013 02:43:18 pm
Again ... Patiently ... The whole bit about Scott Wolter's "honorary degree" -- or not -- is simply an ad hominem distraction ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/4/2013 02:43:25 pm
Again ... Patiently ... The whole bit about Scott Wolter's "honorary degree" -- or not -- is simply an ad hominem distraction ...
Ge Ki
8/4/2013 03:53:54 pm
Rev Phil - Keep on trying to convince us that lying doesn't matter. Wow, Wolters was WRITTEN UP in the alumni magazine! That's just as good as an honorary degree, I guess! Sure buddy. Would you teach your child that it's OK to lie, as long as you're "written up" in an alumni magazine? I wouldn't. And I can't think of any real "Reverend" who would either. Where were you ordained, anyway? Let me guess - it was done with whipped-cream-topped coffee.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/5/2013 11:52:52 am
MORE ad hominem stuff ... So what ... ???
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Ge Ki
8/5/2013 04:04:39 pm
Nice job totally ignoring the part about lying. No comment on that, ay?
Daniel Schmidt
8/5/2013 06:46:15 am
Francis Bacon said, even as a teenager, with regard to what was the most difficult thing he had to learn at the University by Queen Elizabeth... his reply was, "the most difficult thing was to unlearn what I have learned..." "Pass the test" philosophy; makes no one a philosopher. It's something that comes from within. What have you done? What have you done that has given you so much elegance? Have you discovered something that has propelled you to the top? It's a difficult thing to argue; for or against; and only a fool would be fool enough to enter into an argument that cannot be won or be resolved.
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Ge Ki
8/5/2013 07:08:10 am
Daniel, I am sure you have something coherent to say, but you seem to have difficulty saying it coherently. For example, this nebulous statement: "Opposites attract... no true at all... space collapses between these forces and these forces fly apart. These things are all appearances burdened by the senses." Space between these forces? What forces are you talking about? And what the bleep does the rest of it mean?
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olivia
6/21/2017 03:58:38 am
MY TESTIMONY TO THE WORLD
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/5/2013 03:56:41 pm
So ... When you have reviewed -- and REJECTED -- a paper submitted for peer review prior to publication ... Does that *rejection* then mean that EVERYTHING done by, and submitted by, THAT author/researcher is now entirely JUNK ... ???
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/5/2013 03:56:47 pm
So ... When you have reviewed -- and REJECTED -- a paper submitted for peer review prior to publication ... Does that *rejection* then mean that EVERYTHING done by, and submitted by, THAT author/researcher is now entirely JUNK ... ???
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/5/2013 03:56:54 pm
So ... When you have reviewed -- and REJECTED -- a paper submitted for peer review prior to publication ... Does that *rejection* then mean that EVERYTHING done by, and submitted by, THAT author/researcher is now entirely JUNK ... ???
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Ge Ki
8/5/2013 04:13:24 pm
No, it doesn't necessarily mean everything is junk, though it could. It could mean that there are insufficient data for a strong publication. It could mean the authors drew conclusions that were not justified by the data. It could mean that their writing was atrocious.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 10:26:14 am
I am ENTIRELY in favor of "peer review" ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 10:26:22 am
I am ENTIRELY in favor of "peer review" ...
Ge Ki
8/6/2013 10:32:14 am
Rev Phil, Your last two posts have been especially nebulous. First you're ranting about a research paper being rejected, now you're ranting about character assassination. Specify for me please - Whose character have I assassinated?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 12:53:26 pm
"Rant" ... ??? Excuse me ... ???
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Ge Ki
8/6/2013 01:15:29 pm
Just answer the question and stop trying to avoid it. And yes, "rant" is appropriate for the posts I referred to. Look at all those ALL CAPS words you used.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 02:35:05 pm
I use "caps" for EMPHASIS ... and nothing else ...
Ge Ki
8/6/2013 03:58:18 pm
Says you. And given that you are defending a proven liar, your word is as worthless as his.
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Ge Ki
8/6/2013 04:07:32 pm
Says you. And given that you are defending a proven liar, your word is as worthless as his.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 04:30:33 pm
Is your position on these questions really so WEAK that you must persist in the ad hominem stuff ... ???
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 04:30:39 pm
Is your position on these questions really so WEAK that you must persist in the ad hominem stuff ... ???
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Ge Ki
8/6/2013 04:34:19 pm
Specify where my position is weak. You saying it doesn't make it so. But you won't specify, because you don't want to address the issues. You just want to whine about it.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 04:53:25 pm
LOL ... Virtually by definition -- ANYONE who resorts to ad hominem comments would appear to have not much else at hand ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/6/2013 04:58:51 pm
But ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/27/2013 05:11:07 pm
"Ge Ki" ... ??? ...from "Vulcan" ... ??? Really ... ???
Ge Ki
8/6/2013 06:42:17 pm
Bottom line, "Rev": You defend lying. You can leave it there if you want.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 03:05:16 am
No ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 03:05:23 am
No ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 08:40:38 am
I am rising to defend a PERSON ... as distinct from a claim or an idea or a TV show ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 08:40:45 am
I am rising to defend a PERSON ... as distinct from a claim or an idea or a TV show ...
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Ge Ki
8/7/2013 09:48:25 am
Look, I'm proud of you for learning a new term, "ad hominem." You've shown us all that you've mastered it. Congratulations. However, we are discussing ideas and facts, as you claim to want to do. It just so happens that those ideas and facts reflect badly on Scott Wolter, so you're calling them "ad hominem" attacks. You're telling us to ignore his lying, and just believe his TV show. That makes no sense. Jacques Cousteau didn't lie about his credentials. Steve Irwin didn't lie about his either. I trust what they show me on TV. Scott Wolter has proven he is willing to lie to get what he wants. That is the fact that we are discussing here. And I don't trust what he shows us on TV. Given your support for lying, why don't you just drop the title of "Reverend"? You won't tell us where you were ordained. In fact, why not drop "Phil Gotsch" also, and admit that you're Scott Wolter?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/8/2013 12:12:21 pm
Oh, my ... !!!
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/27/2013 04:08:17 pm
I see that you ("Ge Ki," whoever you REALLY are) have by default now withdrawn your exceedingly odd speculation that I am Scott Wolter in disguise ... ???
Daniel Schmidt
8/7/2013 03:45:23 am
Universities don't lie? really... they're a propaganda mill. Always have been... Truth has no business there. Never has... They're meant to lead the childish, the academic easily led where ever mommies lead them... Grown men work with confidence in themselves.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 04:51:32 am
Well, yes and no ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 04:51:38 am
Well, yes and no ...
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Daniel Schmidt
8/7/2013 05:29:48 am
They reflect the world... but not an institution of saints no doubt... Knowledge, philosophy is good... sometimes it's skimmed and twisted... for politics, for greed, for religion, for race, for whatever reason. Take Darwinism for example... cross breeding produces seedless fruit... Two mules don't make a donkey... How long will it take to reason that; it's buried into everything. Something's missing but it's not bones...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 05:57:56 am
Ouch ... !!!
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10/1/2016 06:19:29 am
..MY TESTIMONY TO THE WORLD
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 05:58:02 am
Ouch ... !!!
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crowfoote
8/7/2013 05:42:00 pm
the statement is somewhat profound much like carlos castaneda journey to exiland (sic) ethereal and strange needs a peyote guide
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Daniel Schmidt
8/7/2013 02:24:54 pm
Yes of course. I have my own telescope; my own dreams, waste my own time... but it is what is on the resume that reflects real work experience that counts... whether paid or unpaid; whether with recognition or without; particularly when I get old and things of relevance become less relevant, things remembered are forgotten and the only thing that matters is character... real character... the thing that holds value when tested in the field in experience and culture. This life fly's away like a kite in a hurricane... Come what may, no one will ask what school I went to when I pass away... Pretty soon we discover; 10 years is just a day and that knock will be the true test of fate... no papers will follow me.
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feefers
8/7/2013 04:12:27 pm
ok, now the funniest thing i have seen in the above blog is the main man saying "However, I can found things on the Kensington Rune Stone scholars missed for over a hundred years that proved its medieval origin".
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crowfoote
8/7/2013 04:45:08 pm
I have just placed a babalfish in my ear I understand the Vogons are here
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crowfoote
8/7/2013 04:48:27 pm
Scott the answer is still 42
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 04:57:38 pm
(1) Don't panic ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/7/2013 04:57:45 pm
(1) Don't panic ...
Rev. Americanegro
9/4/2016 04:29:34 pm
Phil, you are not posting enough duplicates of your comments! The more duplicates, the stronger your argument gets! It will harden your resolve!! Don't let anyone convince you it's like playing with yourself!! 8/8/2013 12:40:09 am
Thank you for such a fantastic blog. Where else could anyone get that kind of info written in such a perfect way? I have a presentation that I am presently working on, and I have been on the look out for such information.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/8/2013 02:24:22 am
You're welcome ...
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CFC
8/9/2013 04:43:52 pm
I’m positive Scott Wolter won’t be written about in the University of Minnesota Duluth alumi publication or any publication affiliated with UMD ever again.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/10/2013 12:13:49 pm
I had never heard of the "Paradigm Symposium" until now ...
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bob
8/22/2013 05:50:21 pm
watched one show - did some online background checking scott wolters and his shows are total bullshit
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Jason Akers
8/23/2013 09:44:15 am
I have read a lot on here about degrees, false degrees, and religious beliefs. I first want to tackle the idea of belief. Belief in any god is just that, belief. we can't prove god is real however many of us, including me, believe in him. If we can believe in something that we can't prove to be real than how is it we can't believe the work that Scott Wolter is doing isn't true. I have ready many statements that call for us to believe in god and not " this false work" that Scott wolter is doing. I for one can't see how religion has anything to do with what he is working on. Even if the Holy grail is a bloodline of Christ who are we to say that the son of God didn't have a family. we were not their, we did not see it first hand. For all we know the Grail could be nothing more than a symbolic meaning. However, we will never know if people like Scott wolter stop investigating and stop asking questions.
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8/23/2013 09:48:21 am
No one is criticizing Scott Wolter's work solely on his fictitious honorary master's degree. If you click the link at the top of the entry, you'll see dozens of pages of blog posts criticizing his work on its scientific merits. This particular blog post was written in response to a specific claim Wolter made on the radio--that he had an honorary master's degree, which he did not. Similar claims have led to firings and resignations of top-ranked government and educational officials, so it is hardly a moot point, even if it has no bearing on whether his claims about history are true.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/18/2013 08:57:05 am
Again ... to remind all ... The "America Unearthed" TV shows are just that -- and ONLY that -- that is, TV shows ...
Ge Ki
8/23/2013 10:01:04 am
I second what Jason Colavito said. Lots of people do excellent research without degrees. As I've said before, Jacques Cousteau is one example. But Scott Wolters lied about having a degree. Trust is the currency of research. Those who read about someone's work must trust that that person did not fudge the data or outright fake it. If Wolters is willing to lie about having an honorary degree, I don't trust him to not lie about other things. Plus, he does crappy research in the first place, as many have pointed out here.
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Rev. Phil Gotsxh
8/25/2013 05:05:41 pm
No ... Thorough careful technique ... and publication ... and peer review ... are "currencies of research" ...
Ge Ki
8/25/2013 05:45:10 pm
Rev Phil, two things:
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/27/2013 03:04:42 pm
I don't know of ANY indication that Scott Wolter "faked" any data in his painstaking studies of the Kensington Rune Stone ...
Ge Ki
8/27/2013 03:54:12 pm
1) Like Wolter is going to tell you what he misrepresented on TV.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/27/2013 04:05:33 pm
I "get" the fact that you're on some kind of mission or quest or vendetta ... Whatever ...
Ge Ki
8/27/2013 04:30:36 pm
I have an open mind on the issue. That is one in the universe of possibilities.
Rev. Americanegro
9/4/2016 04:33:29 pm
What part of
Ge Ki
8/27/2013 04:25:37 pm
The only thing to "get" is that science has zero tolerance for misrepresentation. That's why scientific knowledge is so solid. Once a scientist (and I use the term loosely here) lies, his reputation is shot. Wolter is no exception.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/27/2013 05:01:45 pm
As I have indicated already (above), the real value of those H2 TV shows is to stimulate critical (!!!) thinking and discussion of North American history ...
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Daniel Mara
8/27/2013 11:11:17 pm
Rev. Gotsch, surely you know "critical thinking and discussion" on any topic is best led/inspired by those with credibility. If the purpose of Wolter's TV show is to stimulate national conversation about something other than his (obviously) false, credentials, perhaps he should have stepped aside and allowed someone with an unimpeachable reputation to host!
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/28/2013 03:40:26 am
Daniel ... If you have "the Chops" and "the Creds" ... Go For It ... !!!
CFC
8/27/2013 04:30:21 pm
Phil
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/27/2013 05:04:28 pm
In a lengthy post (above) Scott Wolter himself very nicely explained his *tongue*in*cheek* honorary master's degree ...
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Ge Ki
8/28/2013 04:29:15 am
I didn't see his tongue or his cheek in his bio.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/28/2013 05:56:15 am
LOL ... You're just jealous that he HAS some real-world accomplishments ... ??? What are yours ... ??? Nobody in this forum even knows your NAME, much less anything about you ... Whatever ...
Ge Ki
8/28/2013 10:52:11 am
"Rev": In your world, truth is not sacred. In your world, the only reason for objecting to a lie is jealousy. Many times you have ignored my question: Would you teach a child that it is OK to lie about having an honorary degree?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/28/2013 12:11:19 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you really are):
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/28/2013 12:12:56 pm
"Ge Ki" ...
Ge Ki
8/28/2013 05:14:17 pm
"Rev": Who I am has no bearing on who Scott Wolter is, which is the subject of this blog. I see no need to address such a completely irrelevant question, from you who avoid so many relevant questions above.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/29/2013 01:45:37 am
Ah ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/29/2013 03:03:48 am
It does appear that my impression of "jealousy" is correct ... Scott Wolter is excoriated for an honest innocent mistake in his resume ... while his harshest critics don't HAVE a resume ...
Bimmerella
9/18/2013 09:01:13 am
Ge ki is someone just like me, who saw Mr Wolter represent himself as an expert, who put himself in the public domain, and asked us to accept his logic. When that didn't register with either of us, we both decided to further investigate. Neither of us are asking you to believe anything other than the fact that Wolter, for whatever reason is misrepresented and indeed allowed it to perpetuate until he got called on it. Now you arrogantly assume in order to even ask a question regarding your friend, who you ask us to believe because you believe, that we are obliged to reveal our identities? That's just complete crap. None of us are asking you to believe anything, other than we have questions, raised by your pal. The person that does ask us to have a look for ourselves why he has a belief contrary to Wolper is Jason, who is hiding nothing and and as far as I'm concerned, he's not asking us to believe anything. He is simply backing up his conclusions. I've been reading this back and and forth, and quite frankly I'm agreeing with Jason, in that what he says about the degree is true, and that beyond being a character witness for Wolter and asking us to take your word from it, the argument has reached beyond there even being a point to it. You disagree, you know him, we are wrong, end of story. You realize what a weak argument that is among people who landed here because they had questions they were looking for facts to resolve. I respect that Wolter is your homie, but please respect your bud put himself out there and i have not only the right, but i feel an obligation to myself to ask questions....your friend's actions rightfully in my mind call motivation into question. You haven't presented one thing that satisfies that big ugly blaring question. Does my identity really matter? I'm doing nothing but trying to satisfy my own curiosity.
CFC
8/29/2013 05:40:20 am
Actually Phil, Wolter's harshest critics would be the University of Minnesota Duluth. Don't fool yourself into thinking that they aren't appauled by him faking this degree over a couple of decades.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/29/2013 01:34:21 pm
LOL ... I am reasonably sure that YOUR teachers would be "appauled" at your mis-spelling ...
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Ge Ki
8/29/2013 01:46:32 pm
"Rev" predictably ignores the point.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/29/2013 02:59:53 pm
Nope ... Presumably, if Scott Wolter had been censured by The UM-D Faculty Senate or had his degree revoked or been somehow otherwise repudiated by the Board of Regents or by his beloved former teachers, who are now his colleagues ... there would be some public record of that ... Where is it ... ???
virginia
1/4/2014 03:14:44 pm
Woot woot! Love that Rev. I'm appawled myself. bwahahahahahaha
Americanegro
9/4/2016 04:41:25 pm
You can't revoke a degree that's completely made up.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/18/2013 03:02:45 pm
"Bimmerella" --
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Rev. Americanegro
9/4/2016 04:42:47 pm
It's not an "honest and insignificant misunderstanding" when someone LIES for over a decade on their resume.
CFC
8/29/2013 03:44:03 pm
By "colleagues" and "beloved former teachers" you mean those academics who are regularly castigated by the host of America Unearthed (Mr. Wolter) for “hiding” the real truth?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/29/2013 05:22:21 pm
You ARE jealous, aren't you ... ???
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Ge Ki
8/29/2013 06:24:13 pm
Another irrelevant comment from the self-proclaimed "Rev." Watch, this, he's gonna do it again with this question, which always gives him trouble: Hey "Rev.," would you teach kids that it's OK to lie about having an honorary degree?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/30/2013 04:46:51 am
I find your ongoing vitriol ... interesting ...
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stephen
1/18/2014 04:40:10 pm
I wonder if anyone is aware of the FACT that the Smithsonian has pursued a long standing policy of culutural isolation. This means that no peoples had any contact between the Eastern and Western continenets, and Australia. I am aware this poliucy is BS. There have been stone tablets found in Brazil written in Phoenocian. There is a rock in Arizona, called Ten Commandments rock, because the Ten Commandments are written in ancient Hebrew (about 1500 BC), There are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on a stone cliff in Australia, by the way, only a handful of the most educated Archeologists could translate. Roman coins found in America. So you can see why Scott's critics seem to be pretty lame, as they attack his credentials, rahther than his reports on history that these poser scholars would ignore. A good example would be the existance of Caucasian, Redhaired Giants (people at least 8ft tall) in North America that predate the Amerindians. There burial remains have been found from 1799 to 1978, from New Engand to California.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/30/2013 04:45:49 am
I teach "honesty" in general, including the need NOT to confuse criticism of ideas and claims with "character assassination" ...
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Ge Ki
8/30/2013 05:29:29 am
Ta-da!! See? "Rev" completely avoided the question. Try again, "Rev." Would you teach kids that it's OK to lie about having an honorary degree?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/30/2013 06:42:42 am
I teach "honesty" in general, including honesty in representing what others have said or written or claimed ...
Ge Ki
8/30/2013 06:58:52 am
Ta-da again!! See? He can't answer it! Instead, he tries to paint it as a trick question, as if he would somehow incriminate himself if he simply said, "No, I would never teach kids that it's OK to lie about haing an honorary degree." Hey "Rev.," try this version: 9/22/2013 12:56:34 pm
Ge Ki,
Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/30/2013 07:03:01 am
What do you not understand about "honesty" as a TOTAL plan, including ACCURATE representation of what other people say and write ... ???
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Ge Ki
8/30/2013 07:42:02 am
I understand that "honesty as a total plan, blah, blah, blah," is not an answer to my question. I mean, it's a simple Yes or No question, "Rev." Try this: You can answer Yes or No, and then elaborate all you want! That's reasonable, right? OK, ready? Go!
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Rev. Americanegro
9/4/2016 04:46:20 pm
What part of
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/30/2013 08:57:41 am
It is WRONG to tell a "lie" about anything (except when a higher purpose requires it, e.g., to save a life), INCLUDING telling a 'lie" about Scott Wolter ...
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Ge Ki
8/30/2013 10:14:34 am
Ta-da yet again!! "Rev," you're getting ever so close, but you just can't commit to Yes or No on this question. You tell when it MIGHT be ok to lie, but you won't address this particular case. Plus, for some strange reason, you put "lie" in quotation marks! As if it's just a figure of speech or something.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/30/2013 10:23:22 am
A "lie" is a false statement knowingly made with the deliberate intention to deceive ...
Ge Ki
8/30/2013 11:14:27 am
Ta-da #5! Yes folks, this time 'Rev" has kindly defined the word "lie" for us, and he has told us that he doesn't think Wolter lied. But of course, once again, he could not bring himself to answer the question I asked.
Rev. Americanegro
9/4/2016 04:46:59 pm
What part of
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/30/2013 11:54:54 am
Have a nice evening, "Gi Ke," whoever you are ...
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Ge Ki
8/30/2013 05:41:55 pm
Will do. I'll keep the question warm for ya.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
8/31/2013 11:50:14 am
LOL ... Consistent with my new hypothesis -- that "Ge Ke" is one of the last surviving siblings of "The Bee Gees" -- it does appear that (s)he is infected with "Saturday Night Fever" ... ??? ;-) 9/1/2013 03:04:45 pm
The current education regime has become so entrenched with tenure, profit from publishing and sports money that to have history challenged and change cannot be tolerated by them. Given that most folks fall into not trusting the education regime or drinking the koolaid, I should have not been surprised to see the discourse focus on only attack and disproving or support. History is not as your where taught, nor is it exactly as Scott describes, unfortunately current methods used by the regime do not allow for any "out of the box" thinking, its quickly ridiculed and dismissed with the usual arrogance from people who thinking that their knowledge makes them a better human and therefore allowed to insult others with impunity.
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9/16/2013 03:19:47 pm
Thank You Dan Sullivan.
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Rémi Dallaire
9/2/2013 02:05:03 pm
Whatever . I have met many people with degrees that were dump as a box of rocks. The show is interesting..and ask many legitimates questions. The thing that bring down the show a little bit for me is that it's made like a badly acted reality show....But that's fun in a sick way too.
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Ge Ki
9/2/2013 02:30:56 pm
Remi - As is mentioned numerous times above, nobody is saying Scott Wolter needs a higher degree before he can do whatever it is he does. The problem is that he lied about having an honorary degree. Plus he does really crappy "science."
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/2/2013 04:39:41 pm
Again ... the "America Unearthed" H2 TV shows .. are TV SHOWS ...
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Ge Ki
9/3/2013 01:22:15 am
"Rev" Phil: We don't need crappy "science" to trick us into being interested in American history. You have well-established that you think it's OK to lie, as you see no problem with Scott Wolters claiming to have an honorary degree that he doesn't have.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/10/2013 12:33:00 pm
"Gi Ke" --
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/10/2013 12:33:07 pm
"Gi Ke" --
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/10/2013 12:33:13 pm
"Gi Ke" --
Bruce Keeler
9/3/2013 12:17:49 pm
Hey Scott, you're show is awesome and inspiring! Keep up the good work.
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ignacio
9/11/2013 12:56:41 am
Google earth 3/12/2012 41º 40’24.03’’ N 70º15’12.48’’ O elev. 7m alt. 68 m
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/11/2013 04:11:25 am
Great tip ... Thanks ...
Christina M. Young-Jackson
8/30/2015 03:43:54 am
I agree...I love America Unearthed. Scott Wolter is watchable and engaging.
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Brigit MacTavish
9/7/2013 05:57:21 pm
Jose, If Jesus is from out of this world, that would make him an alien, right?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/8/2013 11:07:37 am
LOL ... More to the point of the "America Unearthed" H2 TV shows -- Did "Jesus" mine the copper on Isle Royale ... ???
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Jason Michael
9/16/2013 06:54:18 am
The sad thing about your rant is that you are forgetting the main purpose behind the TV show, entertainment! Just as you pile on about Ancient Aliens, that is the same basic idea. I will wager any amount of money if History Channel asked for your opinion on one of their shows with a nice paycheck afterwards, you would toss this retarded BLOG in which you are seeking donations from Paypal. What difference is the mysterious degree Scott Wolter's has or the birth certificate Obama refuses to show? I love the fact he actually took the time to be humble and even address this site and misspelled on it. It show's he is human and not perfect like Jason Colivato. I hope Scott has many more seasons, new discoveries and you watch Ancient Aliens for the 6th season like the rest of us. I also hope when you stop asking for donations some grad student makes a thesis and tears you apart!!!
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9/16/2013 07:31:21 am
Actually, you'll see if you search my blog archives that I refused the History Channel when it asked me to compromise my judgment for ratings, and Destination America solicited me to host a program and then rejected me when I refused to stop being skeptical for the sake of cash. I practice what I preach.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 09:30:48 am
Ummmm ...
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9/16/2013 10:00:10 am
Look, Phil... Am I going to have to close comments on this post? My response above had nothing to do with you and you know DAMN WELL that I was referring to small-s skepticism, not to angry materialism. You have made the same point upward of a hundred times, and at this point you are now repeating yourself ad nauseam. If you have nothing new to contribute, please just stop. You've hijacked this entire discussion into an endless paean to your own self-proclaimed virtue, and I've been patient about this. But I've had enough.
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Jason Michael
9/16/2013 10:14:59 am
So now I'm "small-sskepticism"? Nice grammar! At what point did I share whether or not I believed what was on America Unearthed" other than it is entertainment? Of course you contacted by the History Channel. That's why you run a blog and and are not part of the main-stream media. That's why you are not open on your facebook and want to block this stream of comments because you yourself cannot handle the exact same criticism you give to Scott Wolter or other History Channel TV shows. Perhaps one day you can study up on integrity instead of trashing everyone in the field you proclaim to be an expert on. Douche.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 10:29:39 am
... "angry materialism" ... ??? What the ... ??? Where have I posted any such thing ... ??? 9/16/2013 10:31:21 am
Yes, Jason, I want to block these comments. That's why I've left them open for almost a year. I didn't tell Phil he can't criticize me; I told him to stop repeating the same post again and again. We've all heard and read it, and at this point it's trolling. 9/16/2013 10:36:46 am
All right, Phil. Here's what I have to say to you: Leave this thread. This is ONE blog post out of THREE YEARS worth of blog posts on this website, and you never comment on any of the substantive and factual blog posts in which I examine the content of various claims. Have you ever read beyond this one post, which you follow so very closely? Your lack of participation elsewhere suggests to me that you just enjoy yelling at me over a few paragraphs you disagree with. Try reading some of my YEARS of coverage of alternative history before you bleat self-righteously about how awful I am.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 10:40:17 am
Everybody DOES have to make a living somehow -- whether by receiving a small salary or by getting residuals from a TV show or taking in payments from "best seller" book sales, yes ... ???
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 10:44:50 am
Jason -- 9/16/2013 10:52:03 am
Phil, as I have tried to say, this is one blog post (January 21, 2013) out of more than 1,000 blog posts on this website. You repeatedly accuse me of character assassination as though this were the only thing I ever wrote and was not a news story. (If it were not news, then the woman who just got fired for faking her PhD as a "Syria expert" is owed an apology.) I have wrote at great length and substantively about all of the claims on America Unearthed. You can read most of it at the convenient America Unearthed link, and again in my book on the subject. Yet you accuse me of not doing this, as though this one blog post is the sum total of all I have ever done or will do. It was a news story, and any reporter covering the same topic with the same facts would have written the same thing. That I do not discuss it after this thread ought to show you exactly how much weight I gave it in evaluating the program. So, either read my actual criticism of the show or stop talking about what you don't know.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 11:10:14 am
Well, yeah ... 9/16/2013 11:15:36 am
So, let me get this straight: If I close the thread, I'm censoring comments that don't agree with me, but if I leave it open I'm encouraging people to pile on. So I can't win?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 11:24:52 am
Ummmm ...
terry the censor
9/16/2013 04:02:38 pm
> as long as the character of my long-time personal friend and professional colleague, Scott Wolter, is held *out*there* for public ridicule ... then ... yes, I will continue to defend him
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 04:06:37 pm
Yes, I agree that it is time to *move*on* to something other than snarky comments about Scott Wolter's degree ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/16/2013 04:06:43 pm
Yes, I agree that it is time to *move*on* to something other than snarky comments about Scott Wolter's degree ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/17/2013 02:30:58 am
But, again ... Okay ... Let's discuss THE SHOWS ... 9/17/2013 02:36:12 am
If you want to discuss the shows, I have reviews of each episode, and you are welcome to comment there. This blog post is not about the shows and has never been. Since you are very eager to discuss the episodes, I suggest you begin commenting there where such posts would be on topic and relevant.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/17/2013 03:24:56 am
My interest -- as you know or have reason to know by now -- is about the question of alternative history in general, IOW, the meta-topic of the H2 America Unearthed TV shows ...
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9/17/2013 03:36:22 am
So, you're saying you've really read absolutely nothing else I've ever written. Otherwise you'd notice that the social and cultural aspects of alternative history is the MAIN TOPIC I discuss on this blog, in my books, and in my published articles. Try moving beyond this one blog post, which you have obsessed over for nine months.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/17/2013 03:46:51 am
I have no idea where you got THAT notion ... I have in fact googled up -- and read -- the other blogs you have put up regarding the America Unearthed shows ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/17/2013 03:49:25 am
BUT ... LOL ... I am bemused by for near simultaneous command ordering me to be quiet and go away ,,, but then also responding to my posts ... I dunno ... 9/17/2013 04:00:15 am
I didn't order you to be quiet or to go away, only to stop repeating the same point over and over again. We've all read it and you've had your say on that point.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/17/2013 04:07:35 am
Ummmm ... But, see ...
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Fast Kat
9/17/2013 08:10:46 pm
This blog cracks me up. Academia that's never left their labs or class rooms and rely on facts from the Internet. Everyone knows that if its on the web it's 100% true. The alphabet soup that follows your name doesn't make you intelligent, inquisitive. Get in the field and let your facts do the talking, not your ego.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/18/2013 05:28:10 am
And the FACT is that waaaaay back in January, Scott Wolter wrote a very gracious thoughtful post that *cleared*up* an innocent harmless misunderstanding about his "honorary Master's Degree" ...
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Bimmerella
9/19/2013 08:26:21 pm
Phil, your comments quit being relevant a loooong while back. Look, I hear what you are saying. You have said it again and again, except started directly goading those who don't agree with you, as if somehow getting them to engage would automatically make them wrong and you right. Let me just break it down for you. You say you are a friend of Wolter, (unproven, just take your word for it), you say because you have known him you know he is honest and wouldnt mislead...again asked to go on your word against evidence to the contrary. Is it becoming clear to you now, why I am completely unimpressed with any of your arguments? Do you understand how pointless they are as long as all you ask us to go on is nothing but your story? This blog, and the people on it, come here interested in facts, what constitutes fact, and what doesn't, and why we agree or disagree. I'm feeling good that the EVIDENCE shows Wolter was willingly misleading about is credentials, and as far as science goes, its pretty important you represent yourself correctly. I read Wolters nice little note to Jason....and it did not leave me feeling any better about the misrepresentation. In fact I found it to be incredible that something like this story would ever be put on paper its so silly.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/20/2013 11:09:11 am
Ummmm ... Yeah ... well ...
Bimmerella
9/18/2013 09:26:31 am
Jason,
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9/18/2013 09:55:34 am
Thanks! Somehow I only manage to get trolls, never leprechauns. I'd rather have a pot of gold than a pile of............
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/18/2013 10:21:52 am
LOL ... 9/19/2013 08:41:46 pm
Wow........irony much??? Lol Jason, you have said all that need be said. I'm heading over to check out some other discussions you have posted. As for you Phil....agree to disagree. Much better things to discuss. Like how weak the proof is for Jesus....Kisses!!!!
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/20/2013 11:05:23 am
"Bimmerella" (whoever you are) ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/18/2013 04:32:52 pm
See ...
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9/22/2013 12:59:26 pm
Just to openly kiss some ass, here... while I do not agree with everything Jason writes or expresses, I like him and respect him.
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russ
9/27/2013 06:55:04 pm
Way too many comments to read the entire litany, but I would like to poin out 3 things about Mr Wilted, his work and his profession...
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Russ Adams
9/27/2013 07:09:32 pm
Sorry for the typos in my post. I was commenting from my new phone and I haven't quite mastered the quirks of this model's autocorrect yet.
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CFC
9/28/2013 11:22:40 am
Regarding your #1 above Russ, there continues to be many questions about the Kensington Rune Stone that call into question its authenticity. If Mr. Wolter had confidence in his evidence about the KRS then he would have written a scientific paper and put those claims to the test in a manner that can be reviewed and verified by the scientific community. He has failed to do so and will continue to be heavily criticized, as he should be.
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9/28/2013 04:18:39 pm
CFC, you said:
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CFC
9/29/2013 01:47:26 am
Regarding the "non existent degree" - I realize he'll continue to get some support from individuals who don't value telling the truth, but his explanation is a big joke to the professional and academic community including those at the University of Minnesota.
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Ge Ki
9/29/2013 02:44:31 am
So Scotty, since you claim that Wolters "addressed pretty clearly" why it was OK for him to claim that he has an honorary degree, then you buy the whole "whipped-cream-topped coffee equals an honorary degree" thing?
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Russ Adams
9/29/2013 02:04:53 pm
Jesus CFC, get over yourself....
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Ge Ki
9/29/2013 03:31:27 pm
Russ - First, you focus on whether or not his degree is real, as if it's the degree that matters. It's not. Again, for the millionth time, it's the fact that he lied about it. I base this assessment on his own words and his own actions. He said he had one, but he didn't. You base your statement that "the truth lies anywhere in between" on imagination. There is no reason to think that the truth lies anywhere except in his words and actions. To believe that whipped-cream-topped coffee constitutes an honorary degree is ludicrous.
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Albert Einstein
11/25/2013 08:51:52 pm
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Russ Adams
9/29/2013 04:17:50 pm
You don't know that he doesn't. All you know is that the university failed to record it. Colleges give out honorary degrees to everyone of any notoriety that gives them a few bucks or does something for them. And if it didn't happen, you have no idea what transpired behind that.
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Russ Adams
9/29/2013 04:24:00 pm
Besides, if his experience and credentials didn't pass the sniff test, he wouldn't have gotten a publisher. Publishers thoroughly vet non-fiction authors.
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9/29/2013 11:27:43 pm
Scott Wolter self-published his Kensington Rune Stone book and worked with a small publisher for his current book only after he became host of America Unearthed, the show being his credential. As an author, I can tell you that no one did a background check on me before publishing my books.
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Russ Adams
9/29/2013 04:26:33 pm
That is, of course, unless he qualified his conclusions by saying "here's what I think and why I think that.". Oh, wait, he always has.
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Ge Ki
9/29/2013 05:10:31 pm
By "You don't know that he doesn't," I assume you mean "doesn't have an honorary degree." Have you read his own explanation? Because if you haven't, it's great for a laugh. His "certificate" was a cuppa coffee. So you think it's just by accident that the university doesn't have a record of that? How far do you think it's reasonable for us to contort our logic, to force ourselves to buy into that pile?
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Ge Ki,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/30/2013 03:16:27 pm
Indeed ... Only a FEW are honored by being granted an "honorary degree" ... and only a few are honored by "alma mater" with a full page write-up in the alumni magazine ... and few among us have written several successful books ... and very few host a popular TV show ...
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terry the censor
9/30/2013 03:37:19 pm
@ Rev. Phil
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/30/2013 04:46:18 pm
I don't have any "honorary" degrees, either ... (do you ... ???) nor have I been written up in an alumni publication ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/30/2013 04:46:24 pm
I don't have any "honorary" degrees, either ... (do you ... ???) nor have I been written up in an alumni publication ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/30/2013 04:46:32 pm
I don't have any "honorary" degrees, either ... (do you ... ???) nor have I been written up in an alumni publication ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/30/2013 02:54:18 pm
Scotty ... You are both wise and kind ... a reasonable person ... I fully agree with you ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/30/2013 02:54:23 pm
Scotty ... You are both wise and kind ... a reasonable person ... I fully agree with you ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
9/30/2013 02:54:29 pm
Scotty ... You are both wise and kind ... a reasonable person ... I fully agree with you ...
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Matt
10/2/2013 05:28:58 am
It's clear to this "layman" that the best course forward--for me, personally, LOL-- is some sort of new program co-hosted by Wolter and Colavito. Both seem congenial, personable and professional enough with each other, and I would personally find their debates about American Archaeology quite compelling. You two guys are different sides of the same coin, and I think that coin is pretty valuable.
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CFC
10/5/2013 05:53:45 am
Wolter behaves like a child and throws tantrums when people disagree with him so he wouldn't last 1 minute with Jason Colavito.
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I just came upon America Unearthed and enjoyed this program very much. As with Science, Scott has the balls to ask the questions about history many of us have questioned in the past but did not ask. So of the remarks and opinions here I find insulting to my intelligence. Pessimism was never are part of true Sceince. Questions to find answers, whether we like them or not, are a part of true Science. How does learning start, but to question. How do we learn, but to as others in the same areas of Science their opinions. I, myself, had 2 degrees, and many many certifications. However, the point of my submission is to say, always read and question for yourselves. Just because you do not like the answer, does not mean you need to defame the writer. Einstein and Hawking both have many more degrees than anyone here. But knowledge and learning is a balance of knowledge gained and formula, and even Einstein was called crazy when he said E=mc squared. Most of the person on H2 and Science Channels are experts in their fields and other studies. How dare you "GOOCH" to even insult the character of someone that is willing to ask experts in their fields for their opinions and to use Science in formulating a hypothasis (sp) with an open mind. Unfortunately, close minded people stop history truths from even being research. Science is an ever growing and ever evolving learning aspect of life. Keep going Scott. Never quit asking the questions we all should have years ago.
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CFC
10/5/2013 05:56:01 am
Science is all about asking questions. No one disagrees with that. But respectfully, the point of this particular posting is outing Mr. Wolter's lies about his credentials.
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Edworth Swaim Jr.
10/2/2013 09:27:00 am
Gooch et all :
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Gregory Donlin
10/3/2013 04:51:24 am
Scott, I enjoy your show! YOU look just like a guy I served in VietNam with in '69 named Tom Wolter....my name is Greg Donlin, and I was in the 101 ABN 1/502 Sept'69-'70. Tom was a very good friend of mine. Please let me know. Thanks, Greg Donlin
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Jeff Truitt
10/3/2013 10:21:49 am
Jason,
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10/3/2013 10:28:36 am
So, you're suggesting that 5 books, dozens of articles, 1,000+ blog posts--none of that counts because I wrote one blog post that noted the simple fact that I couldn't confirm a credential Wolter claimed on the radio to have? If you look at the vast amount of stuff I've written--coming up on 2 million words so far--anything personal about Scott Wolter himself amounts to a handful of paragraphs. Yes, it is an endless vendetta.
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Scott Lund
10/4/2013 12:40:16 am
Common courtesy to start...You resemble that which you claim against Mr Wolter. You mislead the public with the title to your blog, which I guess means you lie. Your title states degree, not honorary degree, big difference. My immediate thoughts when I read that title in the search descriptions which brought me here, were "Oh no, I like that guy and he is a fraud? No way". So I open it up and see all these tear down opinions of folks that appear to have a need to inflate their own peer rating. Long story short, you got me here with a half truth, now all your blogs are suspect and I expect you to take this article down, and do it now. 10/4/2013 12:45:25 am
Sure, Scott, just as soon as Scott Wolter recants all of the half-truths, mistakes, and false claims he has made about everything from academic conspiracies to global goddess conspiracies. (oh, and his own claim that I am a zealot conspiring against him with a network of anti-Wolter activists.) Nothing in my article is false, and there is nothing misleading about my article. I don't think you can really blame me for what other people chose to post in the comments section of a brief blog post. If that were the case, I have some YouTube videos to show you that will really get your goat.
Ge Ki
10/3/2013 05:17:15 pm
Jeff Truitt, go back to sleep.
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Scott Lund
10/4/2013 01:07:19 am
On a company resume Mr Wolter's former employer put some spin on a deserved sentimental honor which he is proud of, ( I would be too) and you and some here act as if he perpetrated a huge hoax and act as if that is credence to negate his work..So he left it on and it may have taken on a larger life that some would like. Lighten up Francis! Also, to bring to light these mysterys that have limited, scattered and hidden evidence is fantastic. So what if there is some conjecture, you all are smart, watch through the parts that are needed to make an hour show on limited avaliable evidence. Then after the show, please enjoy a nice cup of shut the hell up.
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10/4/2013 01:12:31 am
You are again confusing me with the comments on this blog post. Did you read my original article? It says nothing about the claims you are attaching to it. Wolter's claims are independent of his education, and I have dealt with his claims about history elsewhere.
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Scott Lund
10/4/2013 01:28:33 am
You state in your article, "(Interestingly, the 2001 profile also contains Wolter's admission that he had no experience or training in examining ancient stone materials, and that his expertise was largely in scientific testing of concrete.)" I read the profile and missed that admission....Or are you referring to the segway of the author? And how would that be Mr Wolter's admission? (have not been to bed yet, a little groggy, but thank you Jason for responding back and so quick!)
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10/4/2013 01:33:04 am
The article states: "They [Wolter's company] most often perform a type of 'autopsy on concrete' by examining failed concrete roads and buildings to determine were the fault lies for the flaw. [...] But the Runestone isn’t made of concrete and when Wolter agreed to conduct tests, he needed some advice."
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scott lund
10/4/2013 01:55:31 am
I do not know yet of the interviews and past "untruths" of which you speak. As stated above, "Note: This post is only about a specific claim Scott Wolter made prior to hosting America Unearthed. so lets stick to the article, actually, I need to go to bed, but...."Most often performs" is not stating nor is it conclusive proof for you to write such a broad statement as "no experience or training in examining ancient stone materials" and then claim that is by his own admission???? Come on, you are guilty of inference to fact here. And yes, work on concrete is not direct work on ancient stones and their writtings, but common sense dictates there is a great deal of carry over on technique and use of equipment. 10/4/2013 02:29:13 am
I hate to sound negative, but you say that your inference, based on "common sense," is correct, while my inference, based on a wide reading of Wolter's work and my own undergraduate work in archaeology is not. Not to mention Wolter's own inferences, based on little more than blind faith in the secret lineage of Jesus.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/4/2013 05:38:31 pm
Indeed ... When Scott Wolter did his VERY thorough studies of the Kensington Rune Stone, he did so as the leader of an entire TEAM of investigators ...
scott lund
10/6/2013 11:32:50 pm
Jason, my "inference" or common sense is based on fact that undergraduate work in archaeology should have confirmed for you, thereby stopping you from comparing my statement and yours. Fact is some of the same equipment is used between the two, and also technique. That alone as a former undergrad archaeology student should have stopped you from making that broad statement. You stated in this article only that the profile contained this statement of no experience or training. There was no mention in your article of radio interviews, no mention it was formed via your perception of experience concerning Mr Wolter, so basically not based on concrete fact as you would have us infere from your reply, (pun intended) but rather based on assumptive inference. By the way, do you know Cheryl Reitan? 10/7/2013 12:26:12 am
Then ask yourself this, Scott: Would you trust me to inspect your bridge or office tower? After all, I trained on some of the same equipment and have equivalent education.
scott lund
10/7/2013 01:31:31 am
You have never heard of her? Then other than the things you never mentioned in your article, how would you know her writting style and that when she says Mr Wolter "needed some advice," what she really meant by that was he is admitting he has no experience or training. That is a pretty clear conection of fact there. In case you missed it, Cheryl Reitan is the author of the profile in your article, but you knew what I meant, so I digress.
scott lund
10/7/2013 01:52:10 am
If you were president and managed a huge company that dealt in inspecting something close to bridges or office buildings and brought in 7 experts to assist you to make sure all was done correctly? Hell yes, but I'd still need to see your bid first and you would have to admit that the building or bridge does exist. 10/7/2013 02:16:43 am
Scott, I wrote this blog post almost a year ago. If you think I keep every name of every article writer in my head, I can't. Aside from the comments on this blog post, I can't say I ever give Scott Wolter's credentials a moment's thought.
scott lund
10/7/2013 04:21:57 am
No Jason, how could you miss that I did not miss your point, but yet you missed mine. If you as an inspecter equal to Wolters degree of knowledge with what he was facing had 7 experts from various areas? Yes, I would hire you....even if you had 5 experts to assist you, you would get the job. (Of course with 2 experts Mr Wolter would get it )
scott lund
10/4/2013 02:13:58 am
Jason, I apreciate your courtesy to me and the responses. I hope to discuss more another time and perhaps read other articles of yours on this for sure. I have been researching last nights hunt and dig with my daughter for the last 12 hours as we found some sort of runes written around a what appears to be a possible iron meteorite, or forged bloom of steel worked down. I was looking to fing mr wolters email to send an email. Thank you, the profile has that info!
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CFC
10/5/2013 05:25:44 am
Rev. Phil- I'm sorry that you have been so misled by Mr. Wolter about his claims of authenticity. .
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/5/2013 07:36:01 am
How do the lines of evidence NOT indicate authenticity ... ??? Who says so ... ??? You ... ??? On what basis ... ???
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Scott Lund
10/7/2013 12:18:33 am
Hey there Rev. Gotsch, I like your tenacity! I have read many of your posts and enjoy them.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/9/2013 10:00:16 am
Scott Lund ... Thank you for your compliment ...
scott lund
10/9/2013 11:52:28 pm
Guilty myself! I used to think I was helping and hated anyone to leave our conversation without seeing the, "according to me," right info. Then I friend very honestly told me how I came across like I thought I was better than others, Sure opened my eyes as that was not my intent, perhaps showing enthusiasm and trying to hard for respect at times, but never an intended overbearing braggart. I'm much better now....(crap, I just did it again didn't I?)
scott lund
10/10/2013 12:09:08 am
Wow Rev. Gotsch, I did not know you were the Big Cheese on the Marble Cutting board. Thought provoking duality to say the least.
Rev. Phil Gotech
10/10/2013 05:14:39 pm
Scott Lund ...
Rev. Phil Gotech
10/10/2013 05:14:46 pm
Scott Lund ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/10/2013 05:16:12 pm
(ironically, I am enjoying a glas of inexpensive but decent cabernet right now ... )
scott lund
10/11/2013 05:48:40 pm
It would be great if I could share a Goblet of that Humble Soul Cleansing Vintage right now on this fine and beautiful friday night.
scott lund
10/11/2013 06:01:45 pm
lol, Irony is a beautiful thing kind Reverand, some would even value it so much it would appear as if it is Sacred to them. I myself enjoy the word play of it all, but I am no Expert, but greatly Respect Those that are.
scott lund
10/11/2013 06:17:34 pm
I do not think many commenters here Partake of Vine and get fisty from it. I have not read all the comments, but Perhaps 3 Seperate times I have seen Cursing such as o^$x! But, it is not for Me to Call them on It and Share with everyone else.
scott lund
10/7/2013 12:09:52 am
Jason, per your question about reading any of your other stuff I have now. I had no idea you are a professional skeptic, ( One with a vast amount of knowledge I might add). I came here as this article was the third down or so on a Google/Yahoo search for Mr Wolter. I read your bio and looked you up, even watched you youtube. Extremely interesting subject matter. But as to Mr Wolter, I think your NY forward state of mind is confused by MN nice. We are much less direct here in our ways of dealing with people, and some see that as an admission of agreement when in fact we either just do not want to offend, or do not want to waste our own time talking to some dumbass that just wants to hear himself talk.
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10/7/2013 12:27:46 am
"Professional" skeptic would imply I get paid to be skeptical; that certainly isn't the case!
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scott lund
10/7/2013 01:45:49 am
Well you should get paid. With the knowledge in your head I would bet you could create phenominal characters, storylines and make one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time. Just saying
scott lund
10/7/2013 12:30:23 am
and no the dumbass part was not directed at you, just to be clear.
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Ge Ki
10/7/2013 02:41:05 am
Yes Scott, they're so "MN nice" up in MN that they try not to disturb the University administration by making them do things like following accepted protocol for conferring honorary degrees. Instead, they just nicely confer them with cuppa coffees, so people can happily put them on their resumes and nicely mislead the public.
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scott lund
10/7/2013 04:37:26 am
Well Ge Ki, it is sooo much more exciting getting that degree in MN now. Last year we got our first taste of that cuppachino stuff ya know, and with that and at least a neat MS degree we get sprinkles.
Michael J
11/25/2013 08:19:27 pm
Get over it and have a cup of coffee .
Martha Crawford
10/12/2013 05:04:31 pm
Scott, I do enjoy your program as entertainment. But as Jason has stated, it is obvious from a scientific viewpoint, your methods and conclusions are deeply lacking. I would enjoy the program more if you really were a scientist and your research was factual rather than SciFi. It does, in fact, cause people to think more. But it also causes some of them to use your claims as bonavfide facts. A dangerous precedent.
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Marilynne Rapp
10/12/2013 05:07:48 pm
Scott.
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Steve
10/12/2013 09:11:22 pm
Scott,
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Smith Stevens
10/12/2013 09:24:40 pm
Dear 'Scott Wolter' - I put your name in quotes because you have no Twitter, no Facebook, and dare I say I think you are nothing more than a 'Sci-Fi' character... lol - Thanks to Jason Colavito for bringing such frauds to the forefront.
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Smith Stevens
10/12/2013 09:36:02 pm
I do need to disagree with the Ancient Alien haters, because unlike this 'Scott Wolter,' the individuals on AA are claimed to be writers unless otherwise noted, they don't claim to have 'honorary doctorates' - they're writers with their own theories.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/13/2013 03:57:30 pm
I'm now waiting ...in breath-less anticipation ... hoping ... for an expose-analysis of "Duck Dynasty" ...
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Ge Ki
10/13/2013 04:55:46 pm
"Rev" Gotsch, would you teach kids that it's OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/14/2013 12:11:14 am
Ke Gi --
Ge Ki
10/16/2013 04:53:33 am
You are unable to answer the question. Yet again. That tells us everything we need to know about your standards of truth.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/16/2013 07:35:11 am
"Gu Ka" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
10/17/2013 01:54:23 am
"Rev." Gotsch: Again, you did not answer the question. The question was not "Would you kindly list some things you would teach children?" The question was, very specifically, "Would you teach children that it's OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree?" And you refuse to answer it, for about the 10th time. It's a pretty straightforward, "Yes/No" question.
scott lund
10/17/2013 02:42:14 am
In speaking with the Ojibwe elders, it turns out they want to honor Ge Ki for his persistance. Hence forth Ge Ki shall be known to the First Nations as "wiin awenen niiwana nibo bezhigooganzhii " or "One who beats dead horse"
Ge Ki
10/17/2013 02:59:51 am
Scott Lund - This horse is very much alive until such time as either 1) It's OK to teach children that it is OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree, or 2) "Rev." Gotsch answers the question.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/17/2013 06:55:03 am
"Ka Gu" (whoever you are) ...
Ge Ki
10/17/2013 07:16:20 am
You certainly have not answered it, "Reverend." If you think otherwise, then kindly summarize for me: Since it's a Yes/No question, with elaboration permitted of course, was your answer Yes or No?
scott lund
10/17/2013 08:52:28 am
Well Damn! You must be a horse whisperer then, cause I still see buzzards. Asking a question with an obvious answer repeatedly to somebody that you know knows any definitive acknowledgement of sed question will only further you shoveling shyt on the mole hill? Like I said, looks to me like a horse with no heartbeat......Thought for the Day: If the mountain does not go to Mohammad, get Gi Ke to make one.
Ge Ki
10/17/2013 09:18:39 am
You've been drinking a little too much of the vintage. The answer may be obvious, but "Reverend" Gotsch hasn't yet given it. He'll dance mighty close to it, but he absolutely will not answer it.
scott lund
10/17/2013 10:26:18 am
Drinking a little too much vintage is better than sniffing one's own ether in public. Like it or not, I'll bite on your baited question. I have 5 kids. I have taught each one of them that a lie is wrong and I forbid such behavior. I have also taught 2 of them how to drive and I forbid them to speed in my vehicle and they have agreed. Now, if you would be so kind, please let me ask you a question; If they drive and get a ticket on a friday night for 59 in a 55mph zone, did they break our agreement and would my continued judgement and condemnation for it be justified?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/17/2013 12:43:15 pm
"Ko Go" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
10/17/2013 07:06:26 pm
Scott - you did not answer my question. Once again, the question is: Would you teach your kids that it's OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree? That requires a Yes or No, and elaboration thereafter is certainly permitted.
scott lund
10/18/2013 01:26:36 am
To answer your question the way it is stated; of course I would not teach my children that it is OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree. I shall leave out the "but" and the "however" as I think we can agree to disagree, you say outright lie, I say resume embelishment, perception is our truth. Quid Pro Quo on my yes or no question? And of course, embelish at will.
Ge Ki
10/18/2013 04:09:53 pm
scott lund - You seem to be inferring that resume embellishment is OK, and this on the heels of your claim that you would not teach children that it is OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree (resume embellishment). Kindly explain how this is not a contradiction.
Scott Lund
11/4/2013 09:28:45 am
GeeKee, Due to the tone of our dialogue and of course the predictable opportunity of a baited question, I understand why you would not do as you have asked the kind Reverend to do, and that is to answer with a simple yes or no. Either that, or I truly need to apologize for my incompetence of presenting all pertinent facts. My only truth for quarter is that a deficient mind, such one possessed obviously by myself, would have assumed all pertinent information had been portrayed in sed question. Therefore, in being guilty of negligence in not exercising a restraint leaning towards accurate discipline of my grandiose ideation tenable to you to performing such a simple basic task, I digress to properly putting forth my inquiry:
Ge Ki
11/4/2013 01:48:53 pm
Scott Lund - The answer is 42.
Scott Lund
11/4/2013 07:12:49 pm
Thank You for answering straight away. You say that John deserves no condemnation because, as you say, he did not lie as Scott Wolter did. You are right, Mr. Wolter never broke any laws, nor did he violate a legal civil contract in doing that which you judge him more harshly than I. As to John not lying, is not agreeing to the parameters of legal contract and then legally breaking those exact parameters not a lie?
Michael J
11/25/2013 09:14:36 pm
Did you forget to take your meds ? Maybe you should lie down and put a cold wash rag on your forehead .
Scott Lund
11/26/2013 07:47:39 pm
Hey Michael, please get off my wife's side...
james kennedy
10/16/2013 03:43:12 am
Fact is 90% of American history is either exaggerated , mixed truth and sometimes just plain lies. Anyone who has any experience dealing with those we call professional in the field we refer to as history would know this. History is not always based on fact, its based on who has the most convincing idea about what happened. Scott Wolter is simply weighing some of those stories to see how much sense they make and then giving an opinion on what he thinks. Before you judge him maybe you need to do a investigation of equal time and effort of your own? or what right do you have to say anything against his opinion? Rather than sitting behind that screen all day searching for faults in others to make yourself feel better about your own. Im not a psychologist but its been y experience that those who seek out others problems to expose them have enough of their own to keep them busy.
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10/16/2013 03:47:59 am
Who am I? I have a degree in archaeology, have written several books on a range of historical subjects, and have conducted extensive research into the "mysteries" of history. I am "weighing some of those stories" Wolter tells "to see how much sense they make," and they make none. You're welcome to read the more than 2 million words I've written about history to see just how much more effort I put into studying history than Scott Wolter.
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Michael J
11/25/2013 09:03:19 pm
You have a Bachelor of Arts degree . Stating what you have done does not tell anyone " who you are " .
Ge Ki
10/16/2013 04:54:35 am
james kennedy - Where do you get your figure of "90%"?
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Ge Ki
10/18/2013 03:53:22 pm
james kennedy - I thought so. You have no basis for your "90%" figure.
CFC
10/17/2013 11:39:08 am
Phil,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/17/2013 11:58:21 am
Read his book ... Scott Wolter researched The KRS for a couple of years both in North America and in Sweden ...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/17/2013 01:26:48 pm
Scott Wolter graciously responded to the misunderstanding about his "honorary degree" ... MONTHS ago ...
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Ge Ki
10/18/2013 03:57:07 pm
Oh sure, Wolters "responded." But did he ever admit he was in the wrong? Ever apologize for misleading everyone? No. Therefore, there is no reason to just "let it go."
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/18/2013 04:35:49 pm
LOL ... Indeed, many people find pleasure in a hobby, and some find fulfillment in an obsession ...
Ge Ki
10/18/2013 05:51:11 pm
LOL away, "Reverend". Your 10 Commandments obviously don't apply to your buddies. Care to answer the question yet?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/19/2013 12:57:55 am
"Go Ko" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
10/19/2013 04:54:27 pm
You wish. But just because you make moral exceptions for your buddies, that doesn't mean the rest of us will.
CFC
10/18/2013 07:01:17 am
Scott Wolter did NOT lead an entire team that supports his claims of authenticity. He's on a self-promotion campaign - not a quest to enhance science or history.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/18/2013 10:16:02 am
"CFC" --
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Andy
10/18/2013 07:23:27 am
Very interesting show that shows the history is not set in stone, remember years ago they taught the world was flat...
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Walter Powell
10/23/2013 05:58:22 pm
Get a life.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
10/24/2013 06:18:21 pm
I agree ... Who has TIME to "study" and then *refute* Odd Claims ... I dunno ... I prefer to spend time with my grandchildren ... *whatever*
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jim
11/2/2013 10:00:16 am
Most new ideas are written off as "wrong". Scott , with as many people that you have up in arms, you must be onto something. I for one enjoy your show. Keep them coming.
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Ge Ki
11/2/2013 10:43:11 am
Jim - If this blog were about Scott Wolter's show, your comment would be relevant. Jason Colavito has plenty of other pages about those. But this page is about a degree that Wolter lied about having. Your comment completely misses the point.
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jim
11/2/2013 11:16:37 am
Sorry, I disagree. If all that people can bring up is an "honorary degree" that is not accurate then Scott's work must be relevant to a point. My comment is accurate for this blog. Proof is in the pudding so to speak. New ideas are always put under scrutiny.
Ge Ki
11/2/2013 12:40:09 pm
Unlike your first comment, your second is relevant, because now you have excused Wolter's lying about his honorary degree. Would you teach children that it is OK to lie about having an honorary degree?
Michael J
11/25/2013 08:45:18 pm
Don`t forget that the 2014 season premiere is Nov. 30 and get your rubber brick ready to through at your T.V.
jim
11/2/2013 11:17:34 am
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jim
11/2/2013 01:18:28 pm
This is my point. If what he is saying is "true" and you can't disprove it then you look for anything to discredit him. Do you know the facts of why it is listed or just taking what you read on the internet as fact? Other words , have you talked to him or investigated it yourself?
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Ge Ki
11/2/2013 01:40:28 pm
If you'd read the posts above, you'd have seen that Wolter posted his explanation above, and it's laughable. To summarize, he answered some questions to a few faculty members, and they gave him a cuppa coffee that was supposed to signify an honorary degree, and he allowed his employer to put this on his resume as a real honorary degree, and he himself claimed to have such a degree. But you didn't answer my question: Would you teach children that it's OK to lie about having an honorary degree? This need not apply specifically to Wolter.
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jim
11/2/2013 02:16:21 pm
I taught my kids there are two sides to every story. Get all the facts before you jump. Now answer my question.
Ge Ki
11/2/2013 03:08:20 pm
OK, to answer your question: Yes, I have investigated it myself. I got a statement from Wolter. It is posted above, and I summarized it for you in my previous posting. As I said above, it is laughable.
jim
11/2/2013 01:23:12 pm
Go back and read the blog entry. It states " this is not conclusive". Talking about the research.
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Ge Ki
11/2/2013 01:44:31 pm
Jim - See my post above regarding Wolter's own comments earlier on this page.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/2/2013 04:57:05 pm
Learning to distinguish a mountain from a mole hill is an important life skill ...
Ge Ki
11/2/2013 06:16:55 pm
Chalk another robo-post from "Reverend" Gotsch. Still exempting his buddy from his 10 Commandments. And still afraid to answer the question. Here it is again, "Reverend": Would you teach children that it's OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree? You've avoided it at least about 10 times. I predict you'll continue your streak.
Ge Ki
11/2/2013 06:23:44 pm
PS: "Reverend," shouldn't you be working on your Sunday sermon? You surely have many misled and misguided people looking to you for moral guidance.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/3/2013 04:40:05 am
Chalk up another rigid narrow robo-post from "Gi Ke" -- whoever (s)he is …
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/3/2013 04:40:45 am
Chalk up another rigid narrow robo-post from "Gi Ke" -- whoever (s)he is … I predict that (s)he will continue her/his streak ...
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Ge Ki
11/3/2013 04:51:08 am
"Reverend" - Be original.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/3/2013 04:40:52 am
Chalk up another rigid narrow robo-post from "Gi Ke" -- whoever (s)he is … I predict that (s)he will continue her/his streak ...
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James Bunch
11/3/2013 07:45:42 am
Jason,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/3/2013 08:46:36 am
Yes … From long association I know that Scott Wolter is a very nice guy, a charming social companion, and an engaging partner in conversation and investigation ...
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Ge Ki
11/3/2013 10:01:46 am
Great, "Reverend." He's just not honest. Would you teach children that It's OK to lie about having an honorary degree?
Ray
12/6/2013 12:30:44 am
Great! Then maybe you can tell us what his "archaeopetrography" consists of and how it can be used for dating objects? Wolter doesn't seem to be forthcoming about it and the method doesn't seem to have made it into any scientific journals. Your association with him should make you an ideal source for this info.
Ray
12/6/2013 12:30:51 am
Great! Then maybe you can tell us what his "archaeopetrography" consists of and how it can be used for dating objects? Wolter doesn't seem to be forthcoming about it and the method doesn't seem to have made it into any scientific journals. Your association with him should make you an ideal source for this info.
Michael J
11/25/2013 08:32:29 pm
Now James why don`t you put your " big boy " pants on and deal with it . If you don`t like the show you don`t have to watch it . There is this thing called a remote control and learn how to use it .
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/3/2013 10:10:08 am
"Be Ge" (whoever you are) … I teach Children to be both CAREFUL and HONEST in making claims about others … AND to distinguish a "molehill" from a "mountain" … AND not to BULLY others ...
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Ge Ki
11/3/2013 10:58:10 am
"Reverend," that doesn't answer the question, which was: Would you teach children that it's OK to lie about having an honorary degree? That requires a Yes/No answer, and then you can feel free to elaborate if you want.
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James Bunch
11/3/2013 01:24:18 pm
Hey Gotsch and Ki, get a room...
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11/3/2013 01:25:57 pm
I would love it if Gotsch and Ge Ki would either stop the tit-for-tat or take their discussion to the America Unearthed thread in my discussion forum. This is obviously no longer a productive discussion.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/3/2013 04:26:22 pm
I fully agree that the exchanges with "Ki Ge" or "Ge Ki" (whoever) have been entirely fruitless ...
Scott Lund
11/4/2013 10:27:28 am
I am just distracted wondering if you are a god, not thee God, but a god sent by our alien bretheren to encompass peace between black helicopters and alien raiding ships...^%$#@.....(sorry for the pause, I am spitting up a hairball.)....that or you are a ruse to deflect attention from the simplicity of they are in fact one and the same...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/4/2013 02:20:51 pm
LOL …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/4/2013 02:20:58 pm
LOL …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/7/2013 07:05:49 am
Good …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/7/2013 07:05:56 am
Good …
Scott Lund
11/7/2013 10:02:26 am
Good! Let's Eat! Horse shall be a welcome change to the crow my wife serves to me daily. But first perhaps say grace and ask that our human perceptions are in fact reality worth sharing or teaching. ( I am serious here, too many times I am guilty)
James Bunch
11/3/2013 02:17:14 pm
OK, will do. See how easy it is to plausibly deny the obviously specious? Jason, I hope you are taking notes. My suggestion is that you provide verifiable references for any statements you make while debunking. Just commenting that you talked to someone, inquired, or otherwise checked out a debunking fact doesn't make it so. I think teachers started to get especially stern about that in my Junior year. This would also limit personal bantering within posts. Hope you don't block my further posts. Just trying to help.
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11/3/2013 10:31:09 pm
I'm sure you haven't read any of my work, but you will see if you try viewing blog posts other than this one that I provide enormous amounts of documentation for historical facts, documentation that alternative historians fail to provide or purposely hide.
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Gina Corsi
11/11/2013 05:28:45 am
Awesome website, Jason!
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Michael J
11/25/2013 08:22:55 pm
White people ? You are the racists for making such a comment .
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duane davis
11/25/2013 08:50:12 pm
I've always found Scott Wolter's show to be entertaining and stimulating. He seems like a guy with a genuine passion for discovery and sharing in an interesting way. When it came to checking out Jason Colavito, I realized that I couldn't care less about who Jason might be or what he has done. As far as this blog is concerned, this is my first and will be my last visit. Some degrees actually represent "something." Others are just fluff, whether "official" or not. Will Scott find "the Grail"? I hope so.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/26/2013 03:16:30 pm
It seems to me that some of the most vocal critics of Scott Wolter are simply jealous that HE is a TV show host … and they're NOT ...
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terry the censor
11/26/2013 07:18:52 pm
> the most vocal critics of Scott Wolter are simply jealous that HE is a TV show host
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2013 01:59:56 am
LOL … Interesting thought -- a NEW term combining feelings of both "jealousy" and being "offended" … "offended" … ??? "lousy offended" … ??? "lousfended" … ???
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11/27/2013 07:53:10 am
Being a fellow treasure hunter/underwater archeologist I understand that our mission is to question and hypothesize. Always questioning the status quo. Most of the time, things are not as they seem. It takes courage to take on academia. In other words, stick you head above the crowd and you will catch a few tomatoes... Rock on. Craig at AbsolutFishingKeyWestdotcom.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2013 12:44:50 pm
Yes … infamously, "The 'nail' that sticks up tends to get 'hammered' down …"
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Becky Plumlee
11/28/2013 12:46:12 pm
OMG, I can't believe all the comments, I happen to like Scott Wolter and America Unearthed, whether fact or fiction, it would be my choice to watch when so much of all the programs are reality shows which are mostly just plain stupid.
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Notyrmma
11/28/2013 06:15:53 pm
The show has an interesting premise, much like any mockmentary. I wish it was based in truth. But after one viewing I see that Wolter is nothing more than a ripoff of Indiana Jones and lacks any scientific background or ability. I'm a bit miffed that the History channel is passing this off as some kind of real research. They should be embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for them.
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Paula Kruschke
11/28/2013 06:21:15 pm
Wow. I am astonished at the purely passionate negativity on this entire subject. What started as a "tattle-tale" blog message, clearly designed to voice his negative opinion of Mr. Wolter for the world to see, while showing true selfishness, immaturity, and egotism, for whatever his purposes, brought out the most dysfunctional, meaningless, and convoluted crap from alot of people. You are truly a masterful writer, shown through the pure evidence of the "followers" you have attracted.
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terry the censor
11/28/2013 07:09:18 pm
@Paula Kruschke
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11/28/2013 10:37:35 pm
The H2 channel did not select Mr. Wolter. They purchase the program from a production company called Committee Films, which selected Mr. Wolter because he had been a longtime friend of the company's owners, and by selecting a Minnesota-based personality, the company qualified for tax breaks. H2 told me it does not conduct background checks on the personalities from programs produced by outside companies.
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Paula Kruschke
11/29/2013 04:21:44 am
Mr. Colavito, thank you for the response. It's interesting. With all this information about a licensure on top of Mr. Wolter's degree, and lack of additional education, why does the H2 Channel continue to air America Unearthed if the "truth" has now come to light? I can only believe it's due to the fact that the show is still indeed interesting and appealing to an audience, regardless of credentials or how the host of the show was incurred. Regardless, I still don't care much about how or why Mr. Wolter's ended up with this show on H2, I still find it to be an interesting show. Will we ever really know the truth about a history altering conspiracy? Will we ever really know the truth behind everyone who claims to be something they are not on TV? Will we ever know what exactly the government is hiding and has mapped out for our eventual future? I don't know, but all of this drama makes for a much more interesting plot thickener within what us American's are used to being exposed to, and crave, due to media conditioning. It's actually all quite brilliant.
Paula Kruschke
11/29/2013 04:32:31 am
Mr. Colavito, thank you for the response. It's interesting. With all this information about a licensure on top of Mr. Wolter's degree, and lack of additional education, why does the H2 Channel continue to air America Unearthed if the "truth" has now come to light? I can only believe it's due to the fact that the show is still indeed interesting and appealing to an audience, regardless of credentials or how the host of the show was incurred. Regardless, I still don't care much about how or why Mr. Wolter's ended up with this show on H2, I still find it to be an interesting show. Will we ever really know the truth about a history altering conspiracy? Will we ever really know the truth behind everyone who claims to be something they are not on TV? Will we ever know what exactly the government is hiding and has mapped out for our eventual future? I don't know, but all of this drama makes for a much more interesting plot thickener within what us American's are used to being exposed to, and crave, due to media conditioning. It's actually all quite brilliant.
Paula Kruschke
11/29/2013 06:30:37 am
I just wanted to add another point. I am over-educated for the work I do and have done in my career, but my jobs have paid quite well for me and have been satisfying. I can honestly say that my degree has not earned me any of my promotions. What has earned me promotions has been paying attention, my own drive, learned experience, sprinkled with "who you know." I think anyone who has drive to succeed uses these tools to their advantage, whether they lie, step on toes, take undue credit, etc. In the end, it's about learning that business so much so, that you know exactly what to do to work your way up. You learn how to manipulate what will work in your favor, if you're driven to a goal. I actually see nothing wrong with this type of leadership, it is really a technique used by most to thrive and grow their career. While this may not be written somewhere, it is factual in my experience and observations. Does it have to be a dog eat dog world always? No, but the meek, diligent worker who plugs away at their job, perfectly, and quietly, most of the time, not always, goes unnoticed. You have to take chances, make yourself known, take advantage of opportunities that may not be perfect or what makes everyone happy, but lead you in the general "upward" direction. These are tools not taught to us in school or college, professors who have even participated in these strategies have not taught me this, yet this is an important part of career success in life. And I would guess that almost anyone in a position of power has employed these techniques to a certain extent to further their goals. I say kudos to those who have sacrificed, stuck their necks out, worked hard, and used their skills to reach their goals, in whichever manner caused them to get there. Be proud of your journey. Since it is likely that these words will be used against me, I want to clarify that while there are those who use a vindictive process for success, there are also those who, while still employing some manipulation, are smart and savvy enough to realize that there is an art form to this process in which no one gets hurt by it, in fact, you empower or inspire others through your actions. Whatever someone has done to bring them to their goal, they have "earned" this met goal through hard work, knowledge, and still you are not "given" these opportunities completely by "who you know." You still have to convince "who you know" why you are the "one" they should choose. You can't do this without a great deal of knowledge and hard work, and although it may appear to be an opportunity where one did not rightfully earn their place, you can bet they did indeed work hard to "earn" their place, whether education is involved or not. For those who cannot relate to my experience and opinion, that's fine, but truly, I do not question much of how someone is where they are in their life as I have not walked in their shoes. That type of scrutinization is a waste of my own energy and is irrelevant in the long run. I find that when I've scrutinized someone, such as in my previous and fairly negative posting (which I admit my contradiction of wording from that post to this), I am not doing justice for myself and it does not earn me any type of happiness or growth. In Mr. Wolter's case, the world gets to see his work-to either believe in his message, analyze, pick apart, or plain enjoy his work, which is what entertainment is all about. I say congratulations to him for earning his place in society, and also, I guess some Minnesotans are driven to expose the "truth" to the public when it comes to conspiracy theories. Whether these stories are hogwash, it makes for good entertainment, and Mr. Wolter's personality naturally, in my opinion, is a natural at captivating an audience's attention and I'm glad he ended up in the entertainment industry. However it happened, I enjoy the tales and his demeanor. And also, I have enjoyed the entertainment of this blog. Thank you.
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Paula Kruschke
11/29/2013 07:05:08 am
I just wanted to add another point. I am over-educated for the work I do and have done in my career, but my jobs have paid quite well for me and have been satisfying. I can honestly say that my degree has not earned me any of my promotions. What has earned me promotions has been paying attention, my own drive, learned experience, sprinkled with "who you know." I think anyone who has drive to succeed uses these tools to their advantage, whether they lie, step on toes, take undue credit, etc. In the end, it's about learning that business so much so, that you know exactly what to do to work your way up. You learn how to manipulate what will work in your favor, if you're driven to a goal. I actually see nothing wrong with this type of leadership, it is really a technique used by most to thrive and grow their career. While this may not be written somewhere, it is factual in my experience and observations. Does it have to be a dog eat dog world always? No, but the meek, diligent worker who plugs away at their job, perfectly, and quietly, most of the time, not always, goes unnoticed. You have to take chances, make yourself known, take advantage of opportunities that may not be perfect or what makes everyone happy, but lead you in the general "upward" direction. These are tools not taught to us in school or college, professors who have even participated in these strategies have not taught me this, yet this is an important part of career success in life. And I would guess that almost anyone in a position of power has employed these techniques to a certain extent to further their goals. I say kudos to those who have sacrificed, stuck their necks out, worked hard, and used their skills to reach their goals, in whichever manner caused them to get there. Be proud of your journey. Since it is likely that these words will be used against me, I want to clarify that while there are those who use a vindictive process for success, there are also those who, while still employing some manipulation, are smart and savvy enough to realize that there is an art form to this process in which no one gets hurt by it, in fact, you empower or inspire others through your actions. Whatever someone has done to bring them to their goal, they have "earned" this met goal through hard work, knowledge, and still you are not "given" these opportunities completely by "who you know." You still have to convince "who you know" why you are the "one" they should choose. You can't do this without a great deal of knowledge and hard work, and although it may appear to be an opportunity where one did not rightfully earn their place, you can bet they did indeed work hard to "earn" their place, whether education is involved or not. For those who cannot relate to my experience and opinion, that's fine, but truly, I do not question much of how someone is where they are in their life as I have not walked in their shoes. That type of scrutinization is a waste of my own energy and is irrelevant in the long run. I find that when I've scrutinized someone, such as in my previous and fairly negative posting (which I admit my contradiction of wording from that post to this), I am not doing justice for myself and it does not earn me any type of happiness or growth. In Mr. Wolter's case, the world gets to see his work-to either believe in his message, analyze, pick apart, or plain enjoy his work, which is what entertainment is all about. I say congratulations to him for earning his place in society, and also, I guess some Minnesotans are driven to expose the "truth" to the public when it comes to conspiracy theories. Whether these stories are hogwash, it makes for good entertainment, and Mr. Wolter's personality naturally, in my opinion, is a natural at captivating an audience's attention and I'm glad he ended up in the entertainment industry. However it happened, I enjoy the tales and his demeanor. And also, I have enjoyed the entertainment of this blog. Thank you.
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Sherrie Dobbie
11/30/2013 06:12:00 am
Mr. Wolter, I don't know what your degree is. I don't believe that you would publish something so easily proven to be false. I wanted to thank you for a dynamic show and to say that if humans would open up their stale minds, they might just learn something about a history of man and lands which is so elusive in so many ways.
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Marie
11/30/2013 09:13:59 am
I cannot understand this whole comment section..I did not read everything but find it so sad that all of these people somehow feel their responsibility to prove & spend so much time to tear down an individual..maybe we should inquire as to their accomplishments in life that makes them feel qualified to do so..I, for one, like to think I have an open mind to all the wonders of the world..I enjoy this program & will contine watching..I have questions about so many things..who knows, maybe he will answer some of them for me.who am I to say he is wrong.
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Mark Sosebee
11/30/2013 12:50:27 pm
Looks to me as if someone has gotten bitten by the jealousy bug! Why would anyone as stated above go looking for reasons to tear someone down? "I'm smarter than he is, I have a degree, he doesn't" When in the back of your mind your really saying "Scott Wolter shouldn't be on that show, I should". Well, it looks as if the production company thought he had what it took to get the job done and from what I have seen ALL DAY watching every show, he certainly has the credentials for the job. Only a negative person can find negative in everyone else. Start looking at some of the good things he has brought into question. I love the show and no matter what I find it very entertaining. Keep up the GOOD WORK SCOTT!
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Paula Kruschke
11/30/2013 04:21:51 pm
I actually just got a chance to read ALL posts in your blog, Mr. Colavito, and what a successful outcome! Again, this blog has been extremely interesting to review and participate in and I thank you for this topic which has been entertaining.
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Paula Kruschke
11/30/2013 04:24:29 pm
I actually just got a chance to read ALL posts in your blog, Mr. Colavito, and what a successful outcome! Again, this blog has been extremely interesting to review and participate in and I thank you for this topic which has been entertaining.
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Paula Kruschke
11/30/2013 04:25:58 pm
I actually just got a chance to read ALL posts in your blog, Mr. Colavito, and what a successful outcome! Again, this blog has been extremely interesting to review and participate in and I thank you for this topic which has been entertaining.
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Paula Kruschke
11/30/2013 04:29:06 pm
I actually just got a chance to read ALL posts in your blog, Mr. Colavito, and what a successful outcome! Again, this blog has been extremely interesting to review and participate in and I thank you for this topic which has been entertaining.
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Paula Kruschke
11/30/2013 05:10:49 pm
I actually just got a chance to read ALL posts in your blog, Mr. Colavito, and what a successful outcome! Again, this blog has been extremely interesting to review and participate in and I thank you for this topic which has been entertaining.
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Paula Kruschke
11/30/2013 05:11:10 pm
I actually just got a chance to read ALL posts in your blog, Mr. Colavito, and what a successful outcome! Again, this blog has been extremely interesting to review and participate in and I thank you for this topic which has been entertaining.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/1/2013 01:45:24 am
Paula … I honestly have no idea where in my comments your find me engaging in "name calling" …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/1/2013 05:17:07 am
Paula … A bit more … BTW, my posts in this blog forum have been short and sweet, are done on my own time, and don't take much time to write …
Paula Kruschke
12/1/2013 05:50:11 am
Rev. Goctsh,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/1/2013 08:43:36 am
LOL … I don't recall having made that tongue*in*cheek comment … Was that made to "Ge Ki" (or whatever the moniker is) … ???
Paula Kruschke
12/1/2013 05:50:26 am
Rev. Goctsh,
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Paula Kruschke
12/1/2013 05:51:25 am
Rev. Goctsh,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/1/2013 10:19:36 am
Paula … I agree with you that this blog -- HUNDREDS of entries engaging in relentless unnecessary character assassination -- IS finally pointless …
C Isbell
11/30/2013 03:49:31 pm
I find it interesting that I found this website because I was disgusted with Scott Wolter's investigation of the Tucson artifacts. So there I was all angry and moody and thinking about how this guy Scott shouldn't even be allowed on TV (making people believe that these might be genuine). Then I read some posts from the blog. And my son was watching part of one of the episodes. And I read some more the blog. Now I do have to say that we are a huge collection of very opinionated individuals. And after taking all these matters into account, I find that I'm disgusted with all of us. Scott for making an obvious lie about a degree, and ourselves for thinking that we know everything about everything. You see, knowing everything about everything doesn't make you right, it only vindicates what you really want to do, which is, most the time, proving to yourself that you are truly witty or capable of "real thought", even if (hopefully) the thought is in the spirit of wanting to "set things right". - - = = > > So remember folks, that my son has a newfound interest in chemistry and geology, and understands the points that are brought to him about how Scott's results aren't sometimes real. What is the value in that? THAT has real value. It is not that far off from my youngest daughter reading the Capt. Underpants comic and learning how to misspell things in exactly the way they do in the comic. At LEAST she's reading.- - = = > > And also remember folks (and this is a personal tale) that there are some things in this world that nobody can really explain, like water and 100-year-old
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Frederick
11/30/2013 03:55:31 pm
Jus watched this show this evening. Scott's quest starting in Ireland at Tata Mount. In reviewing the possible Stone of Disteny in Virginia, reference is made to it having been a gift to the orginal land owner by Johnathan Swift.. But Swift never visted America. He lived in Ireland or England his intire life. Rather than collect sand stone form the Middle East, Scott only need to check on Swift's life. The Irish Stone of Disteny on which the High Kings were crowed had nothing to do with any artifact brought there by a Queen, I refer you to the Hill of Tara webpage. (by the way I have visted Tara, and there are no references there to the stone of disteny as proposed by Scott. Some Brits did dig up the Mount in the late 1800 based on rumors.
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Ray
11/30/2013 08:07:52 pm
As a former geologist, I have to say that I have no idea what a "forensic geologist" is. And I have never, ever heard anyone describe themselves as such. If anyone knows, please tell me how one gains the designation... other than simply bestowing it upon himself as a made-for-TV title?
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11/30/2013 10:33:28 pm
"Forensic geology" is the use of geological evidence (usually soil evidence) in criminal trials, such as to tie the accused to a crime scene. It is not typically a profession but a practice. Wolter claims the title because he testified in court about concrete used to bury a body. "Archaeopetrography" is his own self-invented science, with no academic publication on its methodology.
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Ray
12/1/2013 12:58:59 am
Clearly, Wolter's use of the term is a misuse of it. It is dishonest for him to claim that he is a "forensic geologist" since even in criminal trials, forensic geology is performed by geologists who specialize in something that simply lends itself to forensic work. It's worth stating again that no geologist refers to him or herself as a "forensic geologist". Wolter is very dishonest... but we already knew that.
Scott Lund
12/4/2013 01:37:28 pm
@Ray
casual viewer
11/30/2013 10:44:25 pm
I was intrigued by Wolter's title. I google qualifications needed. A large familiarity with crime scene aspects is necessary - and a degree in forensics with a minor in biology, chemistry or geology.
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Ray
12/1/2013 01:05:40 am
Sounds reasonable. The crime here is that Wolter calls himself a geologist. Perhaps he becomes familiar with the aspects of crime by committing his own crime of lying to the public?
Scott Lund
12/4/2013 01:53:50 pm
Ray! We have missed you...The Rev says Hi! (sorry, he still does not know if the name is Gi Ka ~ Ge Ke ~ Gee Gee, or "One who Beats Dead Horse") But never mind, I like the new name, did it come with any NEW topic of issues to discuss? (if not, hope you kept the reciept)
Scott Lund
12/4/2013 01:54:18 pm
Ray! We have missed you...The Rev says Hi! (sorry, he still does not know if the name is Gi Ka ~ Ge Ke ~ Gee Gee, or "One who Beats Dead Horse") But never mind, I like the new name, did it come with any NEW topic of issues to discuss? (if not, hope you kept the receipt) 11/30/2013 11:52:09 pm
Please note that I have removed a racist comment that advocated violence against non-white people.
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Ray
12/1/2013 01:12:07 am
I saw it in my e-mail notification of the response. Why would someone who visits a site that deals with science and skeptical investigation be inclined to make such a comment?
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12/1/2013 01:19:04 am
You would be shocked by the number of white supremacists who bombard me with comments and emails complaining that I am skeptical of America Unearthed, which they view as the first mainstream media acknowledgement of the correctness of their views about the superiority of the white race. That post was tame compared to some of the vile hate mail I receive.
Scott Lund
12/4/2013 02:12:52 pm
Thank You Jason, it is about time that some one overcomes the fear of the aryan type and the speculated unknown retaliation that comes with standing up vocally against them. Loudly supporting freedom, equality, and justice inclusively without forethought is what you modeled and demonstrated in moderating that post. The fact they did not acknowledge or include that many white people also need a good beating...well, I would have removed them too. Bravo Kind Sir!
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12/1/2013 02:59:00 am
Marie maybe it helps to understand that the host is only entertaining because of his incredible and unselfconscious incompetence, and only more entertaining for some of the biting comments on this site. if not for this discussion i might go back to watching people getting their cars towed in detroit on The Learning Channel.
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Shy
12/1/2013 05:24:26 am
Jason C,
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12/1/2013 05:34:56 am
You needn't lecture me on journalism; I trained as a journalist. You may or may not know this, but Wolter doesn't speak to me after he accused me of being part of a conspiracy and directed A+E Networks to threaten me with a lawsuit for "stealing" his "Hooked X."
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Scott Lund
12/4/2013 05:57:41 pm
@Shy
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Larry M
12/1/2013 10:25:20 am
Hey, this blog is almost as entertaining as the show. Hey, seriously....you only have to watch a couple of episodes to know that this guy is a bit out there. That doesn't mean it isn't entertaining. I do believe an old adage applies here: take it with a grain of salt. My wife and I are still fans of the show, there is some very interesting content. As for his degree, who cares.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/1/2013 10:35:27 am
Yeah …
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Ray
12/1/2013 07:25:09 pm
Then maybe it should stop pretending to have something to add to a field where peer-review is the way things are done. Simply saying that it isn't peer-reviewed doesn't excuse it from needing reasonable academic standards. Why should we accept such a double standard?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/2/2013 02:33:20 am
It's a TV Show ...
Scott Lund
12/4/2013 06:04:23 pm
It is a Great telivision show.~ I rarely watch TV, but when I do...It's America Unearthed. Stay Thirsty for Knowledge through inspiration my friends
scott lund
12/4/2013 06:13:57 pm
@Ray You said,"Then maybe it should stop pretending to have something to add to a field where peer-review is the way things are done. Simply saying that it isn't peer-reviewed doesn't excuse it from needing reasonable academic standards. Why should we accept such a double standard?"
scott lund
12/4/2013 08:24:07 pm
Ray, think of the subject in which you are requesting straight dope on and facts on. If you had the facts on this along with a TV show, are you going to spill absolute true facts that could lead someone else to the discovery of generations? If you have worked hard for 5 pieces of a puzzle, would you freely share knowing that the person with the one last little piece may be out there and can have it all and not share with you? Not unless you trust the reason to trust them anyway. But, put that reasoning aside....Pretend it is a court of law...1. Did they have motivation to do this? Proven, they had more than one overwhelming motivation; they had religious reasons of pending persecution by Catholics, the need for religious freedom, financial gain and room to grow, an innate need for glory and fame, and a deep seeded wanderer's lust. Not just one motivation, many. 2. Did they have the means and ability? They were well above the means and ability to transport hundreds of people safely at up to 10 knots an hour, and they possessed these ships and knowledge utilizing them as a way of life from at least 800 AD onward. This technology has been recreated and done today as it was back then, except those that have done it today do not have the experience, religious motivation, or the welcoming attitude towards death that existed and was demonstrated consistently in Icelandic settlers and many other Scandinavians throughout the centuries..
Dr. Colavito,
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bleach
12/3/2013 02:05:26 pm
After watching a few episodes of the show for the first time and then bumping into this site I went ahead and did you a favor Jason. I bought you a huge loaf of bread and jar of peanut butter to go with how damn JELLY you are LMFAO! Damn fool if you talked in real life how you write to people on this blog I would fall over laughing. You sound like a giant weenie that is hugely in love with Scott. You're so jealous of Scott it's sad homes. That show is way fun and Scott is killing it and rolling in cash traveling around looking at rocks doing what he loves to do... with no masters degree. You on the other hand write a sorry blog disin entertainment shows with your phd, dr what ever u have. Then Scott tells you hes glad you like the show and PWNTs u so hard with that comment you have to say "glad u like the blog" 3 times in your sorry response. LoL I gota run i'm gona go dig in my back yard so I can find something for Scott to come check out so we can make fun of you together. Maybe ill find one of your real degrees and we can do a show on how someone so educated can make so little money compared to us no degrees Killing it!... call it JELLY Unearthed!!
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Ray
12/3/2013 06:46:16 pm
What a rant. As soon as someone pulls out the 'jealousy card' you know that he's not to be taken seriously.
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bleach
12/3/2013 11:31:39 pm
That's crazyness!! I'm completely serious about filming JELLY Unearthed! There is talks about a spin off called Serious card Fan Boyz Named Ray! Although the producers says our title is to long. Please respond to help us out with our title. ty in advanced!
SlickChick
12/3/2013 05:02:55 pm
Scott Wolter seems like a nice guy and I dont blame him for his passion in trying to get these answers but sadly he's being paid and paid well for this show by the History Channel which, and I never thought I'd say this, has lost much of its credability in my opinion. I used to be entralled by many of their programs and now its more and more its all these silly series which cater more to the reality tv sheep than true diehard history and science buffs. And I think its sad that the HC has stooped to this level. Its clear to me its just another fine example of corporate bureaucracy making poor decisions lacking foresight and ruining something that was pure in the hell bent quest for more profit with less effort. America in a nutshell, sad....
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Diana Lee-McAnsh
4/4/2016 02:15:03 pm
Scott Wolter produces a pseudo science reality show. The masses want entertainment and television supplies this, it's the Roman Games of our time. The History Channel is cashing in and with the deplorable state of education it's an easy market out to capture. Operation Paperclip put America on the moon; who or what is going to save America from misinformation and ignorance? 32 million adults in American can't read, that's 14% of the population, another 21% of Americans read BELOW a grade 5 level. Not hard to see why people like Scott Wolter are cleaning up in misinformation programming. http://www.operationpaperclip.info/, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3880355.html
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Sharon
12/4/2013 12:16:32 pm
Watching America Unearthed beats the hell out of watching Honey Boo Boo.
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Ray
12/4/2013 08:15:15 pm
That's one heck of a lousy choice. Better to go read a book - but not Scott Wolter's book. Something real.
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Derek
12/4/2013 06:20:53 pm
Let's just think about this. If a person walked up to you holding a cup of coffee and said to you, "hey, check out my Honorary Master's Degree" would you believe them? Or would you laugh, perhaps a little nervously over the fact a complete stranger has claimed a cup of coffee constituted earning a Master's Degree and stayed with that claim for 20 years.
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Ha! I certainly wish my son could get his Master's for the price of a cup of coffee! Unfortunately, it's just another manifestation of the show's MO. Baseless shortcuts. I'm not a spiteful person, and my input here is not intended to hurt feelings, but there is a distinct lack of *real* academic research on the theses. Ergo, entertainment fluff. Taken as that, I can see it having value to some.
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Derek
12/4/2013 06:30:48 pm
Let me continue from where it cut off. (I am not sure why it did that) The only people that can prove his claim are old, and are of a depleted condition that Scott had hoped not to heap controversy and questioning of this issue with professors who are now in their 80's and Scott himself. The same Scott Wolter who lied (by his own admission) for 20 years about his credentials. I am sorry, but that doesn't sound too convincing to me. However, he seems to be persuasive in his delivery and understands how to manipulate an audience. I can at least give Scott Wolter that much credit. But to say he's an expert, a historian, or an archeological researcher is just as much of a reach as many of the claims in his American Unearthed episodes.
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Derek
12/5/2013 02:23:08 am
Jason,
Ray
12/4/2013 09:17:12 pm
To Scott Lund:
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/5/2013 03:03:49 pm
As I have posted relentlessly (above), the questions and issues raised in the "America Unearthed" TV shows ought to be addressed per se, without the name-calling and snarky character assassination …
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Ray
12/5/2013 06:30:28 pm
And you also said it was a TV show, as if that somehow gives it a pass when it comes to truth. But alas, it doesn't. When claims of fact are made and when people are accused of being dishonest it won't work to make the excuse that it's just a TV show. That's what I meant when I referred to a double standard. The medium doesn't matter. The claims of fact do matter.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/5/2013 03:03:56 pm
As I have posted relentlessly (above), the questions and issues raised in the "America Unearthed" TV shows ought to be addressed per se, without the name-calling and snarky character assassination …
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Ray
12/5/2013 06:37:14 pm
You should just take your own advice and lighten up... okay?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/6/2013 01:41:53 am
Ummm … That's where I've been already … It's a TV show ...
Scott Lund
12/6/2013 02:30:58 am
Ray, I do owe you an apology, I really thought from your writting style and your use of the word lie that you were someone else. I was wrong and should have thought it out a little more, before I tried to banter, and think I was smart and cocky. If it offended you, especially being new, and you took it personal, then I really really do feel terrible for that, no excuse, I am sorry. Scott
Derek
12/6/2013 04:55:39 am
Its just a TV show. So I guess its just a sermon then. Do you talk about Scott's show when you preach? If you do, why do you. If you don't then why not. They are obviously beliefs you hold. I really hope you explain to your flock about how you believe that Celts from Ireland traveled all the way to Oklahoma to worship an Egyptian god long before Columbus' arrival to North America. If you haven't already, you should try it and tell us all the reaction you get.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/6/2013 05:29:18 am
LOL … No … I very seldom mention ANY TV show in a sermon, except by way of a cultural illustration (generally a NEGATIVE one) …
Scott Lund
12/6/2013 11:13:31 am
I wonder if that reaction would be the same as the one Galileo received from the church in supporting Copernicus?
Scott Lund
12/6/2013 03:25:10 am
Ray....what's wrong with orange Kool-Aid? Oh, and no to the conspiracy theory label. Life is to short. The conspiracy theory everyone talks about I believe is actually due to a combination of real things..A very strict code of ethics that forbids and encourages archaeologists to, I quote "refuse to participate in the trade in undocumented antiquities and refrain from activities that enhance the commercial value of such objects. Undocumented antiquities are those which are not documented as belonging to a public or private collection before December 30, 1970, when the AIA Council endorsed the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property - See more at: http://www.archaeological.org/news/advocacy/130#sthash.tvuuMLEz.dpufany" . The politically correct climate almost seems to be a Puritanical contest these days. The other part of what may lead to people thinking that is they are overwhelmed by nut jobs and bone heads only wanting to make a buck. You can not encourage these people or no work will ever get done. So even if it is perhaps something, they almost have to act like it is nothing.
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Ray
12/6/2013 07:31:46 pm
You seem to think there can be value in something that's not documented. In fact, it's useless. For starts you can't prove anything with it - you have to BELIEVE. And that's not what science does. Again using a legal analogy: A prosecutor can't ask a jury to believe. He/she has to prove his/her case. And that can't be done when the evidence is not up to the required standards. What you're doing here is the equivalent of a defense lawyer asking that tainted evidence be forced into consideration because it's convenient for his defense. But it just doesn't work that way. Undocumented artifacts are useless.
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scott lund
12/6/2013 01:20:30 pm
Dereck,
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scott lund
12/6/2013 03:47:36 pm
I want to share my personal experience with Scott Wolter for those that unjustly accuse him of grasping at hype and conjecture. I have found many cool and unusual things over the years. After a recent unexplained and unusual find of a stone, I was guilty of getting overly exited and temporarily became one of those nut jobs. The reason was I had researched that unusual stone I found and the individual markings on it I originally thought were First Nation symbols. They are large orderly marks that appear like a carved bent spear, two teepees next to each other with a line under them, a line with small hash angled through the middle, and most of all, a fish symbol with an x to make the head and gills. After research, they matched up a great deal to Elder Farthuk runes that spell a region in Norge minus one symbol. There are also three symbols that fall in line with the Roseau Stone and it's repeated message, and to boot I found out, it was found in an area with ties to the Kennsington stone and Templar legend. I asked Scott Wolter for help. He was very kind, not at all condescending, and took the time to explain how my find was natural and not man made. Even though, he could have "explored" their origin and perhaps embellished to make them fit a theory, or even added it to a show that discredits finds to help boost credibility to all the nay sayers, no, he simply said in a kind way to enjoy it. If he resembled the worst of the posters here, I do not think that would be the case. I promise you, I am not an idiot, if I was fooled and thought it was related to his show subject, a large proportion of his fans would have thought that also. Just thought I would share.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/6/2013 03:56:19 pm
Yes … in my experience, also, Scott Wolter is a gracious and honest person … I concur ...
Ray
12/6/2013 07:13:41 pm
Out-of-context artifacts are not dependable and nothing can be inferred from them. That's just a matter of fact. It's like a legal chain of custody for evidence: Once the chain is broken it's not evidence anymore. And mom and pop museums fake things all of the time. That's a fact, too. Worse, it's a real problem for unwary archeologists and paleontologists. Consider:
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scott lund
12/7/2013 02:38:28 pm
Ray, I found my stone while searching only for meteorites, and with the matter-of-course debris, I did not suspect this as archaeological prospect. Had it been a trade bloom of steel scientifically proven to come from say, bog iron in Greenland, and had specific unassailable evidence as to source of the symbols confirming original origin, then your conservative protective stance, if adhered too, would be a travesty to history and an affront to congenial society. A background check is an easy start to get the ball rolling, and perhaps for the archaeology academia, a good start in adding an acceptable protocol that accepts citizens in good standing honestly finding objects that in themselves are vital to the historical record. When you combine that with the amazing talent out there for detecting fraud, and the advanced methods to do so, it is only sloth that does stand to deny the historical knowledge that is the birthright of my children. Shunning implemented by a religion I may disagree with, but as an American I accept. Your view, and the academia that concurs, I do not. You prescribe to an elitist inflexible narcissistic philosophy that belongs adjudicated to the same fecal stained annals of the religious figures who condemned Galileo and Copernicus.
scott lund
12/7/2013 03:00:15 pm
If God forbid, you acquired a life threatening diagnosis incapacitating your ability to be transported, and for which there was no FDA approved cure, but Norway had a simple portable cure in an approved and proven one dose tablet. Are you going to adhere to your Puritanical stance and chance exiting the gene pool? Or are you going to come visit us here in the country of Doublestandia?
Ray
12/6/2013 06:57:02 pm
Scott Lund and Phil Gotsch,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/7/2013 12:47:25 am
The bit about the "honorary Master's Degree" was an innocent harmless misunderstanding … Scott corrected the error nearly a year ago … Get over it ...
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Ray
12/7/2013 04:56:59 pm
It was a lie - pure and simple. Stop making excuses for him. He had no such degree. He knew it. That makes it a lie.
scott lund
12/7/2013 01:29:42 pm
Subjective biased and meaningless? You are impugning my character as a first hand account witness with a person I have no relationship with, nor ability to profit from in any way? My testimony is clear, accurate and meaningful. Your zealous ignorant denial of such indicates uncontrolled extreme prejudice disqualifying you from having any legitimate meaningful input into the matter of the afore mentioned persons character and or reputation.
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Ray
12/7/2013 05:05:04 pm
Yes, subjective, biased and meaningless. It it were objective, fair and meaningful then every time a mother got up in court to defend her guilty son we'd have to throw out the results of the trial.
scott lund
12/7/2013 08:44:05 pm
Ray, to the contrary, my character is being questioned by you. You say I flip flopped on the aspect of a relationship and then compared an email and a couple responses back to me as a relationship comparable to a mother vouching for her son in court? I am scared for the person who says hi to you at the grocery store and what you shall interpret that relationship to be....You don't have a sound proof basement do you?
Ray
12/6/2013 07:40:35 pm
Phil Gotsch said, "Ummm … That's where I've been already … It's a TV show ..."
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/7/2013 12:50:28 am
You have an unusual notion of how clergy prepare for sermons and for classes … No … We don't go out of our way to refute any and every non-Catholic claim that is made out there in the popular culture … We simply relate what the Church teaches, believes and confesses to be true ...
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Ray
12/7/2013 04:41:53 pm
You didn't actually answer my question. The core of the question was the TV show's claimed statements of fact. You danced around it.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/8/2013 01:46:16 am
Ray … Ummm … So …
Robert Bennington
12/7/2013 04:16:24 am
With new dna testing showing a cluster of Mayan descendants that derive from the area shown on Scott's tv show he is being supported by the facts. The Mayan connection and appearance around 1000AD also helps explain the sudden appearance of mound builders in southern Ohio and the construction of Serpent Mound which to this date has never been adequately explained. The mound building and the serpent effigy are rather neatly explained by the immigration of Mayan influence into Georgia and eastern Tennessee making no great stretch for them to have traveled to southern Ohio. The timeline alone should make it significant enough for further study. An interesting tie in would be to check the dna ancestry of a local group of residents claiming indigenous heritage that does not connect to the known native tribes that have inhabited the area.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/7/2013 05:40:04 am
Serious students of North American history and archaeology have long understood that there were indeed extensive pre-Columbian trade relationships, movements of peoples, and cultural influences over a huge area ...
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scott lund
12/7/2013 03:30:43 pm
Reverand, a great example of that is Poverty Point Louisiana. I believe it is the findings there that will either force the powers that be to accept true history, or will allow fresh blood to finally confirm truth leaving such a wonderful legacy and reputation for the deceased deniers. Ironically, if academia maintains the elitist sheep culture, the way you discredit ALL of Wolters legacy based off of one thing you claim is dishonest, shall be the same fate in a much broader sense of the academic deniers and their work you now endorse.
scott lund
12/7/2013 03:36:24 pm
Wow, I went back and forth between addressing you, to addressing Ray. sorry about that! I guess I have a burr under my saddle huh?
Ray
12/7/2013 04:47:43 pm
Two problems here: 1) It is the academic researchers that you all complain about that have done the work and provided this info about the Mayan DNA, and 2) You seem to falsely be giving Wolter credit for this.
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scott lund
12/7/2013 08:50:16 pm
Uhh Ray? He said that Wolter is being supported by the facts, there was no implication a sober person could construe that he was given credit for the results. Bar close early? Or different time zone? Either way, have another beer and sober up, will ya?
Jay
12/7/2013 02:58:15 pm
Just a thought. I watched the first few episodes to determine if perhaps a cable T.V. show would actually air an "investigative"series that ends each episode with some actual, definitive answers. One can fast forward to the end of each episode to learn that nothing has been learned,no questions answered. unfortunately, it is not about solving problems or gaining clarity, it is only about getting to as many eyes as the advertisers can reach. The advertising rates being paid are the only true governing power in todays media driven society.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/7/2013 03:43:25 pm
Yeah …
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Ray
12/7/2013 04:54:23 pm
To Scott Lund:
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scott lund
12/7/2013 09:03:54 pm
The first one that comes to mind is his study of the KRS that was peer reviewed by 7 world renown experts and found to be accurate. With that and his show, like it or not, his legacy is the start and foundation in redefining correct history. With his information getting out and getting heard against the academic wishes, places like Poverty Point and the copper trade around 2500 BC is getting traction in recognition. I would say that is better than being known as the archaeological professors little bytch any day.
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Ray
12/8/2013 07:13:43 pm
Where can I find this peer-reviewed study? And why, when I ask for a reason for you referring to this "legacy", do you cite a single peer-reviewed study?
Scott Lund
12/9/2013 01:44:03 am
He is asked to show them by a Norge Bradcasting Docmentary crew filming on the KRS for 2 years. It is on Norways own channel and you can link to it if you can google KRS Norway Broadcasting I think, sorry, I do not have the link. It is in Norwegian so good luck, but Wolter and Americans do speak in English. It shows both sides of the argument and you will see other possible atifacts found that were removed from context.
Ray
12/7/2013 05:27:31 pm
To Scott Lund:
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scott lund
12/7/2013 09:29:16 pm
No Ray, I do get it. But I am starting to see or at least think it is you that doesn't get it, you poor man. Perhaps call up that person who said hi in the produce isle last week. Perhaps once you release that tension you can interpret simple words, phrases, and ideas. Like the one of mine you just posted too and then assumed I want to desegregate science and instinct as you say I have a belief in an object and it should be accepted. Hell no Ray, that is NOT what I said. My premise was on an undeniable object pertinent to history that in itself, by study of the rock alone, without any other thing or bit of evidence to go on, it could be proven to be vital to the record, and that premise was hypothetically applied to my stone (already judged not to be pertainent) and the way it was found. The way it was found happens all over Aerica, every day. My way of discovering that stone was an honest ignorant mistake on my part removing the context, but with it being my mistake, the historical record should not be left remiss due to some peckerwood hall monitor that now has a position in the archaeological department and needs to laid because the proverbial stick up his ass is not doing it anymore so he takes it out on manipulating the historical record. There....simplified
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Ray
12/8/2013 07:00:47 pm
You're living in a fantasy world of pseudoscience. A sample never exists beyond the context in which it was found. No matter how important it is to you, personally and no matter how convinced you are that it has meaning, if it has no context (i.e. if it turns up without a known provenance) then it can't 'prove' anything. So one can't "study the rock alone". The rock has no significance if whatever is inscribed on it or any carvings on it are modern. And without that context you can't say whether it's modern or 2 billion years old (this is called sarcasm so please don't waste the bandwidth it takes to refute it).
Scott Lund
12/9/2013 01:43:51 pm
You said you are a "former" geologist or something? Is that because you can not grasp technological advances as they happen? I replied to you in all responses without explaining advanced forensic methods of determination, as I thought with your claimed background they were understood and a given. You wanted to validate Wolter's methods of study, yet you post that above showing no knowledge of geological forensics. Do you realize for some time now, If you tried to "fake" a common First Nation artifact such as an adze, celt, or grooved axe, you would be found out by an authentication specialist working out of their home and not a lab? I am a novice and know just the surface silicate degradation on the knapped areas can tell you if it was exposed recently or many generations ago. The atomic level forensics imposed for some time now go much, much, farther. So when I say my hypothetical rock's authentication has been found unassailable accurate, it is through these given methods unspoken which I thought you understood were implied. Passing the scrutiny of that type of verification, it would be a travesty to bar it from the authentic record due to protocol. If you can not agree there is merit here, I shall just correlate your religion of protocol to the same religious protocol that persecuted those such as Copernicus. At their heart they are the same monotonous impasse to the eventual truth.
Ray
12/7/2013 05:37:58 pm
Scott Lund wrote:
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scott lund
12/7/2013 10:30:42 pm
Ray, your last two sentences say it all..
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Ray
12/8/2013 06:43:06 pm
Now you're just nit-picking. Okay so it hasn't been approved by the FDA. My point is unchanged.
Ray
12/7/2013 05:42:14 pm
So when will you guys join me in asking Scott Wolter to come clean and tell us about his alleged dating method? This is, what?, the third time I've asked? How come you keep asking for the archaeological community to come clean but you won't apply the same standard to Scott Wolter?
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scott lund
12/7/2013 08:20:15 pm
Ray, I am not even remotely the one to ask for help. I have no pull in any way with him to ask that for you. He was just kind enough to help me when I sent him an email and pictures in reference to my find and it took a little while, but he followed up a couple times. I was and am grateful for that even if it was not the answer I thought. I have not bothered the man since out of respect for his time.
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Ray
12/8/2013 06:39:51 pm
That still doesn't stop you (and Phil Gotsch) from calling on Wolter to disclose his alleged dating method for us to evaluate. Ya think Wolter stops by once in a while to see what people are saying about him? I think so - even if he doesn't comment. Why don't we all ask him to come clean about it? Where else in science to scientists use a secret method? Pseudoscientists, OTOH...
Scott Lund
12/9/2013 01:03:18 am
@ Ray You have the nerve to ask this over and over with a straight face? And expect help? You either got brass balls or are DSM4r clinically narcissistic, and I gotta tell you, I have never seen blue brass.
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Ray
12/9/2013 06:30:53 pm
So you refuse to ask Wolter to come clean. You accept his secret dating method. Is it any wonder that you pseudoscience guys can't get any support from real science?
scott lund
12/9/2013 06:52:47 pm
Real science? Where? Wait a minute Ray...How in the world would you recognize real science?
Vito Cipponeri Jr.
12/8/2013 03:29:19 am
Scott,
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Ray
12/8/2013 06:31:58 pm
And with the low standards these guys are proposing they would accept and believe all of it. And then they'd whine that nobody takes them seriously. Go figure.
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Robert Bennington
12/8/2013 03:31:42 am
I find interesting the arguments about proof and chain of evidence as if this were the cure all for defining what is acceptable evidence or not. We are constantly confronted with news about people being convicted and sentenced to death on faulty evidence that was far less rigorously reviewed than Scott Wolter's presentations. That's the whole purpose of proposing an idea or theory. Let it be reviewed and see if it will stand the test of scrutiny. Any time you are proposing anything that is not mainstream you must expect to be attacked as has been the recent discovery that all galaxies have a black hole at their center. Until that discovery proposing that idea would have been blasphemy. Now it is being accepted as fact and will be until some evidence to the contrary is discovered. Just because it's a new idea or proposed by someone without academic credentials doesn't mean it's wrong.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/8/2013 04:33:56 am
Yes …
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Ray
12/8/2013 06:29:11 pm
So now you admit your real reason for maintaining the double standard: With low standards you guys can better accomplish your goal of getting your pseudoscience accepted by the public. With the higher standards of real science you'd be unable to do that.
Ray
12/8/2013 06:22:44 pm
You've contorted the entire issue. Yes, sometimes people get convicted on faulty evidence so your remedy for that would be to allow MORE faulty evidence into the courtroom??? Believe it or not, that's what you're arguing for when you argue against existing standards. No, an intact chain of evidence is not a "cure all". It is a rational standard against allowing tainted evidence into the court room. A rational response from you would have been to call for HIGHER standards, not to argue that existing standards should be relaxed. I'm knocking my head against my keyboard after your silly comment.
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Ray
12/8/2013 06:24:48 pm
That should be 'standards of evidence' rather than 'standards or evidence'.
Paula Kruschke
12/8/2013 05:32:23 am
I have been following this blog, contemplating unsubscribing because there are so many posts and it's becoming a little cumbersome, but it's just much too interesting to let go of to date.
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Ray
12/8/2013 07:51:09 pm
Where do you see "narcissistic" behavior on my part? Is fighting against pseudoscience and maintaining the standards of science a problem for you? Or do you prefer something a little more wishy-washy and accommodating of pseudoscience?
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Scott Lund
12/9/2013 12:49:57 am
Awww shucks Paula, your too kind, seriously, Ray makes it too easy for me to take credit, but you made my day anyway, Thanks You! Scott
Ray
12/9/2013 06:26:27 pm
Scott Lund: "Awww shucks Paula, your too kind, seriously, Ray makes it too easy for me to take credit, but you made my day anyway"
Ray
12/8/2013 07:23:59 pm
Phil Gotsch wrote:
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Rev. Phil gotsch
12/9/2013 02:17:32 am
LOL … Yes … you seem to have some inclination to make stuff up … That isn't my problem ...
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Rayt
12/9/2013 06:23:50 pm
Now you're just being stupid.
Ray
12/8/2013 07:42:12 pm
Scott Lund:
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Scott Lund
12/9/2013 12:38:33 am
Trust me, it is not thin skin, it is the irritation of arguing with a self centered child pretending to be all grown up and sticking to a baseless defense. Do yourself a favor and get off your own side.
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Ray
12/9/2013 06:21:57 pm
Oh, brother. Let me dumb it down a bit more for you. Subjective, biased and meaningless testimony carries no weight. It can't. It's not dependable, the way we like for things to be maintained for the sake of intellectual honesty. Why is discussing things with you like pulling teeth?
scott lund
12/9/2013 06:37:56 pm
It does seem your specialty is "dummbing it down"
scott lund
12/9/2013 06:39:48 pm
And do not pull my teeth, that would remove them from their context
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/9/2013 02:27:22 am
An ongoing question in these tussles revolves around "dating" an object, a specimen, an artifact, an inscription …
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Scott Lund
12/9/2013 01:59:06 pm
Ha Ha, nice, ~ I caught it on the second read.
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Ray
12/9/2013 06:14:58 pm
You have said precisely nothing with this post and you have given mere generalities when specifics were asked for. That amounts to an end-run around the question.
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Paula Kruschke
12/9/2013 02:42:41 am
Well, you are most welcome Scott. I'm glad you received warm fuzzys from my complement. And, the drama still unfolds as I write this...! Wow! It's a marathon!
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scott lund
12/9/2013 03:11:12 pm
Hey Paula, I am not bright enough to figure if you are asking me the question or not. But, if you are, then I would ask if you have considered copper mines in your area as that can be one common place your metamorphic shiest and staurolite can form the crystals I believe due to the higher pressures and temperatures than those that would normally produce shale. That would be relevant if you lived in the vincinity of MI. Do you live in GA or VA? A great deal of shiest in GA contains fairy crosses and is fairly common, but other states such as MI, Wa, NC and CO also have forms of Staurolite. What you described as various crystals added with the fairy crosses is also found in Russia and Bulgaria. As to sites and blogs, I have no real knowledge of alien disscusion forums, mainly just historical and Primative tool and tool making type forums and now I have no time for even that as I have been reading manuscripts from the middle ages based on sagas(from oral traditions) to chronicles of clergy such as "Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum" by Adam of Breman. I would refer you online to mindat.org or gemdat.org for more info on your Staurolite. You will find more aspects, composition, and terminology of your subject to further your research and find the truth of their origin. Hope that helps in some small way at least. Scott
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Scott Lund
12/9/2013 03:26:30 pm
@Paula, the encased in iron aspect has peaked my curiosity. How is it "encased"? How much farther than 240 miles south of the Canadian border are you?
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Ray
12/9/2013 06:11:44 pm
Mica schist is a rock, not a mineral. It is found all over the world. There's no mystery about it: it is a common metamorphic rock and that is the "geologic commonality" you seem to think is mysterious. As for the Staurolite cross not being common, how does that imply anything extraterrestrial? At best your reasoning does nothing but to place its origin somewhere else and that doesn't really explain anything at all - it just pushes the answer one step farther away. But it's really not at all that uncommon - you can easily buy it online.
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Bryan Maise
12/9/2013 08:30:56 am
Just doing a simple internet search, I found credentials for Mr. Wolter as geologist, he owns his own successful and respected business in the field and also has a bachelors degree. However I did not find any mention of an honorary degree. No mention of any archeology credentials.
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Stephen JC
12/9/2013 08:38:52 am
None of that matters. If you don't like the show or don't believe what they claim than don't watch. If you don't like how Jason critiques the episodes or disagree with them than don't come to this website.
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Bryan Maise
12/9/2013 12:09:29 pm
I wasn't intending to imply negativity or coming to anyone's defense. The article is titled "Scott Wolters Non Existent Degree" and only in the article does the author clarify that he does actually have a degree just not the one he is claiming to have which I thought was misleading. 12/9/2013 12:19:20 pm
Did the St. Petersburg Times face a year of people being angry at them for reporting in 2008 that Food Network chef Robert Irvine had faked his resume, including, it was claimed, his culinary degree? I wonder if they received half the hate mail I get over this blog post, which did nothing more than the Times did regarding Irvine. Somehow Scott Wolter elicits so much more passion than Robert Irvine, which implies that his claims have a much greater emotional appeal than British food.
Bryan Maise
12/9/2013 02:30:01 pm
I don't know. I'm not a fan of British Food, have never heard of Robert Irvine nor am I really interested in culinary arts. 12/9/2013 11:00:28 pm
You seem fuzzy on the concept of news. This was a news story about a public figure about an area directly related to his claim to expertise. I hardly need to "justify" discussing what Scott Wolter admits that he did. If you are upset, feel free to direct your upset at Wolter, who used a cup of coffee as an honorary master's degree for two decades. 12/9/2013 09:14:53 am
A fact is a fact regardless of who says it, and a claim is true or false regardless of the claimant. Scott Wolter's education makes no difference to whether his version of history is correct, and my education make no difference as to whether the facts I use are true. There have been PhDs who have said weirder and worse things.
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Bryan Maise
12/9/2013 11:27:09 am
Let me reiterate please that it's not "as I said."
Paula Kruschke
12/9/2013 04:05:47 pm
Hi Scott, I apologize for not being more direct, but yes, my schist questions were directed toward you specifically. You were the most helpful to date with the information you just provided to me. I have inquired with geologists at the University of MN and more and I hadn't ever gotten that much info. Thank you so much for the resources. Copper mines make complete sense but, there aren't any for several hours from the location where the schist is, the mines are at the Lake Superior region. The schist with crystals that I find are at the Blanchard Dam on the Mississippi River in Little Falls, (Central) Minnesota, usually under water but the water is very low in the summer at times and it's just packed with boulders of schist with crystals sticking out and crystals are all over the ground near the river. It's quite a site to see, very neat. But I will definatly check out the websites you suggested. I was aware of the other locations around the world, I only wish we had the garnets as well. Like I said, the stories I've heard in the past were based on folklore, and that's how aliens were brought into the mix. One never knows...
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scott lund
12/9/2013 04:45:20 pm
@Paula, with the glacial drift, that would make a great deal of sense as the copper deposits in Lake Suprior that are stangely planed vertical show immense glacial wear. The raw deposits of copper and float copper removed are found, or were found throughout MN landscapes. You should look in the spring after the flooding for green or copper colored rocks that look like slag, or like what concrete resembles after it is spilled on the ground if it was long and narrow. Raw gold nuggets would possibly be a good sight reference due to having the same shape and texture. I believe you can legally harvest the copper same as panning for gold and retain possesion if on state property, but, if it appears to be man made and over a hundred years old, please do not touch it and call the State Archaeologist. Otherwise Ray might find room for you in his sound proof basement.
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Paula Kruschke
12/9/2013 04:23:15 pm
said:
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Paula Kruschke
12/9/2013 04:34:53 pm
Scott, I'm 295 miles from the Canadian border and the crystal absolutely has a ceramic feel to it. But it's a perfect St Andrew's cross. It's encased completely, non- rusted, very dense, heavy, smooth, gray/brown colored. I will send you an email with a photo hopefully sometime tomorrow. And oops about reposting part of your message. I was trying to copy and paste into another document and got moving to fast, re-posting to your blog.
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Scott Lund
12/9/2013 05:00:22 pm
Funny, I was going to say 292 or 293 miles south after some quick math and counting for border fluctuations, but decided to keep it general, glad I did or it may have weirded you out. Very Cool, I can not wait to see the pictures, Thank You Paula!
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Paula Kruschke
12/9/2013 05:00:34 pm
I apologize to both Jason and Scott. I was completely mixing my conversations up between both of you. I think I'm back on track now though. Sheesh. Time to go to bed. Nighty night!
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scott lund
12/9/2013 05:04:22 pm
Paula, Like I said, I am socially incompetent at figuring those things out, so it was my bad. I said that because there is an author named Scott Lund who writes along this same subject as Wolter pursues. Not me, I am in MN, not CA.
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Ray
12/9/2013 06:45:06 pm
Scott Lund: "You said you are a "former" geologist or something? Is that because you can not grasp technological advances as they happen?"
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scott lund
12/9/2013 07:28:08 pm
A repeatable experiment with you is just say the truth and you will say it is words of a crackpot and call it a giveaway. Nice defense....perhaps stop wearing the shoe and become believable.
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Ray
12/9/2013 07:46:09 pm
Why even bring up the idea of repeatable experiments? All you want to do is believe, anyway.
Ray
12/9/2013 06:54:16 pm
Scott Lund: "He is asked to show them by a Norge Bradcasting Docmentary crew filming on the KRS for 2 years..."
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scott lund
12/9/2013 09:19:37 pm
I politely gave you what I had....and this was your response
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Ray
12/10/2013 04:10:25 pm
You gave me nothing. You made a claim about a peer-reviewed study so I asked you for it and you gave me nothing. So apparently there was no such peer-reviewed study. Either that or your idea of what constitutes peer-review is a bit, um, out of kilter w.r.t. real scientific standards?
scott lund
12/11/2013 10:36:50 am
I gave you nothing? Why, because it was not a link to Wikipedia?
Ray
12/9/2013 06:59:43 pm
Scott Lund: "It does seem your specialty is 'dummbing it down'"
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scott lund
12/9/2013 07:34:48 pm
Well just keep it down, cause I don't think humanity wants you getting it up.
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Ray
12/9/2013 07:42:55 pm
You don't want to hear about anything that doesn't support you belief system so you go off track and make stupid comments. 'Nuff said.
Rayt
12/9/2013 07:07:40 pm
Scott Lund: "Real science? Where? Wait a minute Ray...How in the world would you recognize real science?"
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scott lund
12/9/2013 07:37:30 pm
Inappropriate and Rude Flippant requests beget Flippant Distractions
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ray
12/9/2013 07:44:04 pm
Riiight. It's my fault that you say stupid things.
scott lund
12/9/2013 09:16:04 pm
Your fault? No, no, no, Ray, I made the decision to go in that direction all on my own, stupid, funny, inappropriate or whatever label it deserves. But, perhaps ask yourself, in all the replies to people here whether I agree or disagree even more than I do with you, I have for the most part refrained from remarks similar to what you have experienced. So Ray, why you?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/11/2013 04:05:34 am
Ummm … I wrote a quick inviting post (above) intending to start a discussion about "dating" … but nobody "bit" …
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scott lund
12/11/2013 09:33:29 am
Yes you did, and I have never corrected you kind Reverend, but you did not correlate your discussion of dating to customs of 1911...Nothing valid has changed in 102 years, and you trying to rouse this newer generational social interpretation is worse than Elvis shaking his hips.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/11/2013 11:08:03 am
LOL … I forgot … Sorry … My mistake ...
Paula Kruschke
12/10/2013 12:07:47 am
Ray,
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Ray
12/10/2013 04:00:22 pm
And my response about Staurolite crosses covered that. Thanks for your courteousness.
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Paula Kruschke
12/10/2013 12:19:24 am
Ray, yes, the schist is rock, the crystal is mineral, I did misstate. Thank you for catching that.
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Steve
12/10/2013 05:38:45 am
I've seen brief comments from time to time that claim the K. Stone's inscription [or at least a major portion of it], had been carved with a chisel measuring exactly one inch in width. If true, that would certainly suggest the inscription is a hoax. Has anyone studied the length of the individual runes in detail?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/10/2013 10:26:39 am
Yes …
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Ray
12/10/2013 03:58:04 pm
Yes, and in 1911 the Kensington Runes were studied by Scandanavian Rune experts in Scandanavia - and they were deemed fake.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/11/2013 04:03:00 am
The "take" on the KRS rune forms has CHANGED as the studies have gone beyond an initial cursory glance … Read Scott Wolter's book … The KRS rune forms ARE consistent with runes KNOWN to date from the 14th Century ...
Ray
12/10/2013 04:03:30 pm
Scott Lund:
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scott lund
12/10/2013 09:05:18 pm
No, I had thought you were only strong enough to not break down trying to defend yourself, or I hoped because if not, I would not have replied the way I did. But.....you are still full of piss and vinegar trying to strong arm your version of intelligence with a Neanderthal mind and a Wikipedia link. As you type your words Ray, are you saying them out loud in your G.I. Joe voice?
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Ray
12/11/2013 03:03:14 am
How sad that you can't handle a discussion without resorting to such vitriol. I'm used to seeing that, though, as I've come up against such immature losers on internet blogs and forums before. People who can't handle having their precious bubbles burst sometimes do things just as you do. But even worse, you tried to blame me for your own childish outbursts. At least take responsibility for your actions.
scott lund
12/11/2013 09:44:10 am
Ray, you are so very perceptive yet again, I, when I just posted this, "Your fault? No, no, no, Ray, I made the decision to go in that direction" I was obviously blaming you and not taking responsibility for my actions...woe is me, I'm not worthy.
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Ray
12/12/2013 06:26:21 pm
Finally we agree.
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scott lund
12/11/2013 10:21:09 am
Ray, I can handle the bursting of my bubble? I am chuckling at how deluded you show yourself to be in each successive post. The reason is like I just said. You are an aggressive ass clown bully who will only be enabled by those that remain silent, leaving you to believe even more, you are right. Ray, they are not silent because you are right, they are silent because it is not worth the brain damage. You absolutely do NOT have a strong steady argument, it is pathetic regurgitated chum you appear to have read about last week. It is BS tunnel vision unlit by even the most basic air of civility. It is obvious that while you read posts, you are too busy thinking of your reply instead of actually comprehending what is in front of you. It shows in most every one of your repeat rebuttals that you get and give nothing. You do not even realize that I am a firm believer in science, scrutiny, and proof, even though I have mentioned it and many various scientific methods many times, you have quoted NONE, except to say you can commit fraud on antiquities at will because you are a smart guy. A person misspeaks rock for a mineral and you puke your vile attitude all over them, and then, Mr GI Know everything refers her to Wikifuckingpedia? Someone asks a question in reference to chisel marks and wonders about previous studies on the KRS and you confidently state as proof a study from 102 years ago?...Are you joking me? You believe your intellect has unnerved me? I liked coming here because these are seriously some of the most intelligent people and talented people you could ever have the privilege to meet. Reverend Phil and Jason are both with high credentials yet never talk down to us peasants. When I grow up I want their humility. Even though others here disagree intensely on the main topic and have gone back and forth, most know how to play ball and I respect them. You are deemed wanting of validity, courtesy, and reason, unworthy of respectful response, or visceral discourse. It would be wasted on you to try, so once again, you are an aggressive sociopathic ass clown and you bore me. I can't thank you enough for all your time.
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Ray
12/12/2013 06:25:30 pm
Thank you for again proving your emotional instability. I think there are few names left that you haven't called me, BTW. Want to try again? And you ask if my intellect has unnerved you? Well, apparently so! What a tirade! Now go wipe off your chin and grow up.
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Ray
12/12/2013 06:33:05 pm
Phil Gotsch wrote: "The "take" on the KRS rune forms has CHANGED as the studies have gone beyond an initial cursory glance … Read Scott Wolter's book … The KRS rune forms ARE consistent with runes KNOWN to date from the 14th Century ..."
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/13/2013 02:54:03 am
Ummm … It's not 1911 any more … Studies have continued …
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Ray
12/14/2013 07:30:19 am
And I've noticed (just like before when I asked every one of you to help me get some info on Wolter's alleged dating method) that you haven't provided any support for this claim. Perhaps you can show me where I can find these "studies"?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/13/2013 06:43:07 am
BTW, I notice that Steve Williams' book was published in 1991 … so he obviously did not and could not address the NEW information about the KRS … Do you imagine that post-1991 there have been NO significant updates re: North American history … ??? Really … ???
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Ray
12/14/2013 07:31:37 am
Again you allude to something that you won't provide evidence for. That seems to be the standard with you guys.
Ray
12/12/2013 06:39:29 pm
Scott Lund wrote: "I gave you nothing? Why, because it was not a link to Wikipedia?"
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Diana Cote
12/14/2013 03:08:44 am
Devil's advocate... Could a person collect a lot of knowledge without a particular degree and be able to do the work without said degree and produce correct results? While I have no relevant degree, I believe many of the things he's said could be true and am sure some are.
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scott lund
12/14/2013 03:47:44 am
Diana, I would refer you to a quote from a learned intellectual in physics...
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Ray
12/14/2013 07:48:38 am
Here we see Scott assuming that Feynman's words are calling for science to be done with lower standards and without peer review. I could see the creationists using Feynman's quote in the exact same way. 12/14/2013 03:54:57 am
Of course someone could. The problem isn't that Wolter lacks an advanced degree (an honorary degree isn't an accredited program of study anyway) but that he spent 20 years telling people he had been given an honorary degree from a school that didn't bestow it on him.
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scott lund
12/14/2013 04:25:11 am
And of course Jason would also agree that unearned honorary degrees are given out often to famous people as compensation to be a speaker at a ceremony to increase the prestige through association of sed university and in no way always reflect on expertise on a subject. The fact that the negative posters on this blog relate their perception on the acquisition of Mr Wolters honorary degree and how his employer added it to his resume, as obvious evidence to discredit his findings on the KRS or his abilities as a host with valid hypothesis or theories are subject to prejudicial speculation resembling their own prejudicial speculation.
Ray
12/14/2013 07:52:29 am
And that's important because the alleged honorary degree says a lot about his honesty and integrity. All the while we have the folks here ignoring the problem of hoaxing and fraud. Well, lying about a degree is fraud.
scott lund
12/14/2013 09:15:08 am
And even though on this blog it has been beat to death with the hammer of prejudice, and also viewed by many many people searching for more info on Mr Wolter (as Google keeps this blog near the top of the search results), the show has still been renewed for a second season and this discussion occurs in no other media that I am aware of. Are you sure that mole hill can support the mountain you have placed upon it? 12/14/2013 09:19:16 am
The issue warranted a couple of paragraphs a year ago. That was the extent of it. I'm not the one endlessly discussing an issue that is largely irrelevant to claims Wolter makes on TV. You can thank Phil Gotsch for keeping this going ad nauseam despite the manifest pointlessness of further discussion.
scott lund
12/14/2013 09:46:31 am
Jason, Do I interpret from correctly from your words we should all let it go and call it subjectively discussed with mutual understandings that the truth lies in our individual perception? Cause if that is the case, I am going to miss Ray....Tito....get me a tissue. 12/14/2013 09:59:28 am
I'm saying that Scott Wolter's honorary degree, which he conceded a year ago was not recognized by his alma mater, has been discussed to death. Since Wolter has himself discussed the issue and explained his original lack of understanding of what an honorary degree is, and Wolter's education is not directly relevant to his truth claims, I just don't see that there is anything left to say.
scott lund
12/14/2013 10:08:46 am
I can live with that, cudos Jason, well said. Does that mean I have more free time to read your other blog posts? See Ya there!
scott lund
12/14/2013 04:11:26 am
But to add to that, the methods of discovery, observation, and collection developed by and over time by academia, are considered instrumental to properly investigate an object and are there for a reason. To proceed without any background, guidelines, nor support, which would most certainly occur without the education, would result in lost knowledge critical to the historical record. Mr Wolter has a valid related background applicable to the work he was hired to do on the KRS, and what ever was beyond the application of his field and how it applied, he had renown experts from various disciplines in the appropriate fields to ensure that his discoveries were correct, verifiable, and would not damage his reputation nor that of the 7 academic associates that accompanied him in the authentication of the KRS.
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scott lund
12/14/2013 04:32:38 am
Oh and Good Afternoon Jason! What did you think of that bloated whatever? Hydrocephalus in a goat combined with entrapped gasses perhaps?
Ray
12/14/2013 07:44:24 am
And you once again ignore the problem with fraud - as if it didn't exist. And once again you argue for lowering standards to accommodate your belief system.
scott lund
12/14/2013 08:52:37 am
Ray, any undergraduate performing due diligence in preparation for a public retort with intelligence, and unafraid the TRUTH would invalidate their position, would be able to get off their lazy butt and do some basic research. Yes, I am referring to you.
Ray
12/14/2013 07:40:45 am
He could but we'd have to ask why he doesn't publish results anywhere that can be scrutinized - the standard way that science is done. Why doesn't Wolter do that? Other people with undergraduate degrees can.
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scott lund
12/14/2013 08:53:59 am
Do the work, they are there...
Ray
12/14/2013 07:55:40 am
Scott Lund wrote: "And of course Jason would also agree that unearned honorary degrees are given out often to famous people as compensation to be a speaker at a ceremony to increase the prestige through association of sed university and in no way always reflect on expertise on a subject..."
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scott lund
12/14/2013 09:04:40 am
It would only be pointless if I was talking to you Ray. The point you contend of a lie is subjective. You can not prove subjective. You can say it over and over hoping to make it true, but it never shall be.
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Ray
12/15/2013 04:41:57 am
Fact: Scott Wolter claimed he had an honorary degree.
scott lund
12/15/2013 05:45:06 am
Yaaaawwwwnn....zzzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzz
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/14/2013 03:06:23 pm
I fully AGREE that the question of Scott Wolter's character and honesty should NOT be an issue any longer … Nearly fully a year ago he graciously straightened out a harmless and innocent misunderstanding …
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Ray
12/15/2013 04:44:33 am
Again you lie for him. It was not a misunderstanding. It was a lie.
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Rev. Phil Gotsh
12/15/2013 07:47:12 am
LOL …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/14/2013 03:08:03 pm
The auto-spell-check made the above error FOR me … Should be "colleague" rather than "college" ...
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Ray
12/15/2013 04:50:00 am
Wolter's supporters continue to make excuses for him. Even after continued badgering by me, not only will they not provide evidence of any claimed peer-reviewed studies performed by Wolter, they also continue to make excuses for Wolter not coming clean about his SECRET dating method.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/15/2013 08:03:38 am
You are correct, IMHO …
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Ray
12/15/2013 06:17:55 pm
Yes, I knew that word would be an opportunity for you. And, BTW, your hit-and-run style of posting hasn't invited conversation, either.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/16/2013 02:34:59 pm
So, go for it … or not …
Ray
12/15/2013 04:58:43 am
Scott Lund wrote: "I can live with that, cudos Jason, well said. Does that mean I have more free time to read your other blog posts? See Ya there!"
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/15/2013 07:45:43 am
Again …
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Ray
12/15/2013 06:14:54 pm
If your response to me is to recite a Geology 101 lesson on the difference between absolute and relative age dating then you clearly have no idea what Wolter's alleged dating method consists of. In fact, you've said nothing at all. That tells me that Wolter's book hasn't informed you of anything and that you don't know enough to describe it to me had he done so. So what you've actually done is to show me that there is nothing of use in his book on the dating method. I'm asking for details, none of which would seem to be in his book, judging by your dismissive response. All scientific dating methods have had to go through the rigor of peer-review - but apparently we're supposed to give Wolter a pass and accept that a mere popular treatment in book form is enough. Well, it's not. I again don't accept your double standard. So where can I find out about Wolter's secret dating method?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/16/2013 12:42:44 am
Do your own homework … READ the book … or not … whatever ...
Paula Kruschke
12/15/2013 05:39:03 am
Obsess much? I think the subject has been beat to death and then some. There won't be a winner.
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Ray
12/16/2013 06:27:18 am
Phil Gotsch wrote: "Do your own homework … READ the book … or not … whatever ..."
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/16/2013 07:01:02 am
Well, then, stop complaining that you don't understand *how* Scott Wolter dated the KRS … His "dating method" ISNT any kind of "secret" ….
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scott lund
12/16/2013 07:48:37 am
Reverend, you were so kind to give the specific book and the appropriate pages to answer his query and try to help your fellow man even if the results he interpreted would become his fodder of twisted minutia, but, I understand, you knew that book would not open itself. Nicely Done.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/16/2013 08:14:38 am
Reminds me of that infamous Medieval fella who just KNEW that Jupiter COUDN'T have moons and Saturn COULDN'T have rings …
Derek37
12/16/2013 12:25:50 pm
If Scott Wolter wants to lie about history his show should be on the Syfy channel and Not "The History Channel".
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SCOTT LUND
12/17/2013 10:28:15 am
Dereck, did you get a high five from your buddies on that post? Where is the lie about history? Giving an opinion based on evidence and experience is appreciated in my book. Of course perhaps if I was you and actually got out there and did the work, debunked all the artifacts found yet unexplained, reviewed the history of the people in question, and been published with these results like you, well then maybe I too would recommend programming guidelines and not sound like a buffoon.
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Ray
12/17/2013 04:39:14 pm
I remember when you asked me why it was that I'm the only one you called names and made personal attacks on. But that's not quite right, is it? Maybe you really should unsubscribe until you can manage to grow up.
Ray
12/17/2013 07:36:57 am
I've been pursuing the issue of Scott Wolter's alleged dating method for a reason. And that reason has been to allow his followers to show everyone here that their take on Scott Wolter and his "research" is all faith-based as they won't even discuss Wolter's alleged dating method. In fact, they entirely dismiss my calls for a discussion of it and deflect me elsewhere. Clearly, they avoid any and all critical thinking of Wolter's claims and that shows that they're only interested in things that support their belief system - and that's exactly what they accuse others of doing.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/17/2013 08:22:30 am
Scott Wolter's "dating method" is NOT a *secret* …
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SCOTT LUND....Tired of Ass Clowns and their Old Act
12/17/2013 10:16:25 am
@Ray, perhaps I should unsubscribe from this blog if I want to avoid your pathetic and groundless accusations which you substantiate from your "Belief" and yet do not perform any even minuscule bit of research or follow up to the wealth of info you have been given. You just claim the sky is falling even when you are told the acorn bounced off your head and is next to the path you are on, but still you bitch about why should you have to search in the grass to find it. Does your Mom peel your grapes for you? Is Ray Ray not ready for bedtime till Mommy reads a story? Fricken grow up already. You seriously, as I said before, have not been worthy of visceral discourse or respectful retort. I believe you do not have the courage to have someone you trust that is honest and not afraid of your tantrums read your posts and give you real feedback...Ray, you may actually be more intelligent than I, but we shall never know cause the Ass Clown act is too much of a distraction, and the joke you are trying to tell in this character has become is old and worn out.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/17/2013 10:34:53 am
It IS truly funny, isn't it … ???
SCOTT LUND
12/17/2013 11:09:43 am
LOL Yes, it is funny, So much material, so many times I could have lit him up, but I have avoided responding. This last email from the subscription coming through, I'm thinking he can not really be like that in life....seriously, not for real and not also be in prison or live in a cabin in Idaho's backwoods writing his manifesto or something...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/17/2013 03:17:34 pm
Anybody who takes an honestly OPEN-minded look at Scott Wolter's book on the Kensington Rune Stone … will at a minimum be IMPRESSED at how thorough Scott's investigation was …
SCOTT LUND
12/18/2013 04:52:16 am
Reverend, he wins, I think it is time we give him the "Secret" Templar code. But Please? Can I endear one favor? Could we possibly skip the "Blood Oath and Sacrifice" part in this instance? Seriously, I'm tired and do not want to hear the whining about how he has to go out and buy a damn chicken.
Ray
12/17/2013 04:35:20 pm
Lots of antics, lots of insults, lots more words posted, still more avoidance.
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Only Me
12/17/2013 05:18:16 pm
Okay, first, I've never read Scott's book. I, personally, don't believe the KRS has been proven, beyond reasonable doubt, to be either a hoax or genuine. That being said, I did do some research of my own about it out of curiosity. I'll try to answer the dating method question as best I can, but I am operating strictly from memory, so if I get something wrong, it's not intentional.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/18/2013 04:10:10 am
Yes …
Ray
12/18/2013 08:25:23 am
Let me expand a bit. I'm not looking for a simple, popular-book level discussion of the matter. I'm looking for a scientific discussion of it. The book just won't do. That's why I'm being such a stickler about this. Wolter should have done a proper study of his method and published his results where others expert in the field could evaluate it. Without doing this we have to take Wolter at his word about the efficacy of his method - and that is NEVER done.
SCOTT LUND
12/18/2013 02:31:04 pm
Ray! Fantastic Post! I am bummed my flustered response to another post is right below that, as your post was an interesting read and it seemed to explain your position and reason quite well. You would have to ask the Reverend as to the availability of any other type of scientific journal on the procedure, but I believe and assume he has mentioned the book a couple of times as he, as a learned man, (and I do not think you realize how much) feels that the comprehensive descriptions explained in the book more than meet the criteria required for a scientific journal and it's method for proof without bias. It is unfortunate that without seeing this method first in the way it appears you can only accept to negate subjectivity and or bias, that you may be missing the exact truth or untruth you seek. When you put it the way you just did, and the way I think I understand it, I am sorry that I can not provide what you are looking for to complete your search in the way you have been taught and accept. And please do accept that it is not that I know and will not share, The book and pages Reverend Phil mentioned, and Scott Wolter showing the 7 peer reviews on that Norwegian documentary. That show by the way, very well balanced in their showing of alternate positions on the runes interpretation here and in Scandinavia. No one wins the day with a last dig at their own truth, just present two aspects in an unbiased way. The only bias would be their tour guide for the two years is Steve Hilgren and he is a firm believer and great advocate for Norse exploration. He also is the one to rediscover the missing Roseau Rune Stones whereabouts in a drawer at the U of MN. If you did not know, this is a small round stone about an inch in diameter, originally found by a local, last name Jackson(?) in his Roseau garden back in 1928. They were thought to be Norse runes, but it now appears that they are of old Russian origin. Thanks for playing too much information and good luck Ray, good or bad, I hope you find the answer that satisfies your mind.
SCOTT LUND
12/18/2013 08:21:51 am
Avoidance???
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/18/2013 09:06:02 am
Ummm … I still obviously don't "get" it ...
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/18/2013 02:59:26 pm
"I want -- no, I DEMAND !!! -- to be presented with such convincing evidence that I don't even have to LOOK at it ... and only THEN will I look at the evidence … !!!"
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/18/2013 03:58:56 pm
Coming UP on 1,000 posted comments on this blog … !!! WOW … !!!
Ray
12/18/2013 06:08:04 pm
I don't know why you guys still don't get it. Perhaps the problem is that I gave you too much credit for what you think you know about how science works. That may be why my posts never got through to you.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/19/2013 12:12:38 am
Well … IF you want to KNOW exactly how Scott Wolter went about studying the KRS from several angles -- mineralogy, the runes themselves, and contemporaneous documentation -- it is all THERE in DETAIL in his 574 page book ..
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Ray
12/19/2013 05:01:45 pm
I don't think you have a ghost of a chance of understanding what I've been saying. I doubt that you even read my posts - you certainly don't respond to what's in them. You seem to think the fact that a 574 page book exists is evidence enough and shouldn't be questioned. I'd say your biases are quite obvious.
SCOTT LUND
12/19/2013 03:43:26 am
Ray, I am unsure if you are aware one dedicated problem of specific determination of the KRS is the fact that it was cleaned thoroughly in the early 1900's with perhaps a wire brush I believe. You are aware of how important original material is to access age. Just in that alone, I do not believe it can never be assessed on its own merits, and there will always be a view it can never be validated whether or not there is a journal to your standards. Well there may not be a quote journal, neither was there a book conceived before the assessment of this, nor did Wolter know or ever speak of things related to his show up to this assessment, he was only a neutral professional hired to do a job. So, Scott Wolter went into this "Job" as just that, a Job. He was indifferent to the results being anything other than the truth, a truth that would not come back to bite his professional ass, nor the ass of the experts involved. Some of those world renown experts were employed by universities and respected institutions, and well aware of the protocol of proof, and I assume better than you and much better than I. You may be wondering what this all has to do with your post, and just to be clear I am trying to decrease your suspicion, and what I feel based off the actual history of the process, unwarranted level of challenging Mr Wolter's subjectivity and motive. Also, while a legal conclusion to you may not be considered proof, it is additional evidence that lends support to validity and proof that general society has to accept. Scott Wolter has never had a case in court go against the testimony he professionally provided. Ray, I am trying to show you there was a respected professional that prior to the show would not have accrued as much scrutiny from you had you observed him then. I guess I am calling your call for evidence a call motivated by an inappropriate level of prejudice, and that is not accurate science either. So Ray, honestly, even if you read and assessed the work by the journal format you seek, could you yourself trust your results to be impartial and completely accurate knowing your mind set coming into this?, Would they or could they be the same as the results found by a neutral peer of your exact same experience, knowledge and intelligence? When I look at that question to you, I understand more of your need to question.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/19/2013 11:14:56 am
Again … patiently … relentlessly … entirely REASONABLY …
Ray
12/19/2013 04:36:01 pm
Phil Gotsch, you're repeating yourself and you're not really saying anything anyway.
Ray
12/19/2013 04:54:50 pm
First, I note that like Phil Gotsch, you never actually respond to my points and instead ask me to believe.
SCOTT LUND
12/20/2013 01:06:35 pm
Ray, I was absolutely addressing your point of contention as to Wolters subjectivity in that he knew nothing about all these topics related to "America Unearthed" prior to the study, and adding to that with the mention of his spotless record in court when he testifies. Personally not knowing him, nor being a biographer that recorded his daily life, I guess I have no way to prove any of it too you, so for you to read his book would not waste my time.
John Ballas
12/18/2013 06:41:11 pm
I cannot believe what I read in this blog site. My best take is there are many people with some serious issues that like to blog here. It is a Television show for Christ sake! Television is for entertainment. Maybe some of you experts can make some light of all of these paranormal Ghost shows on Syfy? Every one here seems to want to make a big deal out of a Honorary Degree. This degree was Awarded in public. And An "Award" is all that it is and that is all it was meant to be. My little nephew is in the Cub Scouts and when he get awarded his pins for his accomplishments. That is much all that they are. Awards. This does not make him Survivorman now does it? Let me ask you all this? Is this all the better you can do? Have you guys have no life? I can think of something better to do. Possibly get on "On Demand" and watch a rerun of America Unearthed. Or maybe you guys should have your own television show. I wonder what it would be called? Now I will wait for all of your most intelligent comments. Since you are all experts in the field of criticism.
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ray
12/18/2013 06:53:22 pm
Yes, it's a television show. But it purports to make statements of fact. And the fact is that many people (most?) get their news and information from TV - even shows like this one. Doesn't that obligate us to analyze its content? Or shall we all play dumb and pretend that there are no consequences when a TV show tells us that history is wrong?
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John Ballas
12/18/2013 08:22:42 pm
Consequences? I see no real threat. No more than Barack Obama claims he is a real leader of our country. Or no more threat than the Film "The Patriot" While the movie has no real value or truth to it and never occurred as the movie portrays. And if you have seen this Film you would clearly see that General Gates leads the Continental Army until the Movies end at the Battle of Bunker Hill and Cornwallis is defeated. Which had never happened. General Gates was defeated in the Battle of Camden in the Carolinas in 1780. Here her abandoned his Army and rode back to the north where he was relieved of duty and never commanded again. Nathaniel Greene took over the Continental Army in the South and finished the war causing great losses for the British And they had to retreat to the north at Bunker Hill to receive reinforcements. That never arrived. This movie had no consequences. And was very popular. The only consequences we have to worry about is that the teachers in our schools care less about teaching the accuracy of our history. Most High school graduates do not even know when World War 2 was fought. Let alone what happened in that war. So Scott Wolter's opinion on the history of North America and whether it is wrong or not has no relevance. The real problem is in the schools and not some television show.
Ray
12/19/2013 04:33:08 pm
A movie is not intended as a documentary which purports to tell us the facts. A movie is a drama. Wolter's TV show attempts to tell us about history. That means it has consequences.
SCOTT LUND
12/20/2013 03:15:05 am
Ray, you said "But it purports to make statements of fact" Don't you mean "markets" to make statement of possible fact?
SCOTT LUND
12/20/2013 08:09:45 am
In my enjoyment of the rich humor derived from the irony of Ray's viewpoint and those critics of "America Unearthed" just like him, I think I understand a small part of why Scott Wolter has not responded more in defense of certain subjects or posts, and what the phase, "Any Publicity is Good Publicity" means. I can only glean from all these discussions that Mr Wolter's show is done so well, and his purported statements of fact so convincing, and so close to a reality some are thinking exists, that his critics look at it as more of a documentary than an entertainment forum showing light on possibilities and discussion of strange ancient American phenomenon. Your skepticism in fact denotes more credibility to the unknowing public drawing more of the public to assume it is more fact than speculation. I LOVE IT!
Teresa Daw
4/7/2014 06:32:50 pm
At first I was excited about the premise of this show. But now it is in the same category as the "Ghost Hunters" "Bigfoot seekers" and "Ancient Aliens" ....my comedy channel. Scott Wolter is hilarious! He is so deluded that everything of any sort of mystery MUST have come to the United States because...um...well where else is there worthy to be the resting place of the Arc of the Covenant? And all the goof balls that actually buy into this great steaming load of crap....Oh stop, please. My side ache with laughing. At first I thought I should complain to the History Channel but now I find I can't miss an episode...its just too funny. Say "Hi" to Amelia Earhart for me when you find her in a tree in Central Park where the less intrepid have been overlooking her crash site all these years. Ever stop and think why so many people in the Establishment of Real Scientists aren't speaking to him anymore. ..enough said, they don't want their Real research and credible work dragged onto the Monty Python Show. Gotta go...Long Island Medium is on.....ba ha ha ha!!!!
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/20/2013 02:26:11 am
So, "Ray" …
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Ray
12/20/2013 05:41:46 pm
I really don't know why you're here. I'm here to discuss and debate the issues but your participation amounts to nothing more than referring me elsewhere. Does that mean that you really don't understand what Wolter's alleged dating method is all about? I would expect that if you knew anything about it and could defend it that you would do so when challenged. But your comments here amount to little more than heckling and evasion.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/21/2013 02:38:37 am
Ummm … Ray … Sorry to point this out, but you are the one here engaged in "heckling and evasion" …
John Ballas
12/20/2013 08:05:28 am
Scott, I like how you made your comment. You are absolutely right. It is only a show for entertainment purposes. But Ray wants to push the envelope and make it, Oh, so serious. that it has consequences. I mean come on, Really???? Do you think anybody really cares? And how do you like how Ray did not like my dumb ass political comment??? Hehehehe. Now we know which way Ray does lean.
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John Ballas
12/20/2013 08:05:33 am
Scott, I like how you made your comment. You are absolutely right. It is only a show for entertainment purposes. But Ray wants to push the envelope and make it, Oh, so serious. that it has consequences. I mean come on, Really???? Do you think anybody really cares? And how do you like how Ray did not like my dumb ass political comment??? Hehehehe. Now we know which way Ray does lean.
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John Ballas
12/20/2013 08:05:44 am
Scott, I like how you made your comment. You are absolutely right. It is only a show for entertainment purposes. But Ray wants to push the envelope and make it, Oh, so serious. that it has consequences. I mean come on, Really???? Do you think anybody really cares? And how do you like how Ray did not like my dumb ass political comment??? Hehehehe. Now we know which way Ray does lean.
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SCOTT LUND
12/20/2013 08:30:07 am
John, Thanks for your kind words,, sometimes I wonder if I am the only one who can understand my ramble and babble. I like how you kept hitting enter when told your post did not post, everyone has done that on occasion, sometimes more than twice. It shows you are human. MSN used to have that issue with their threads, and after a while, I learned that when I get that message I should just hit refresh and it will publish the post.
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Ray
12/20/2013 05:34:11 pm
If you don't want to take the show seriously, fine, don't take it seriously. But at least be adult enough to not mock someone for having a different opinion than yours.
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John Ballas
12/20/2013 07:25:12 pm
Ray I respect the fact that you have an opinion. But your comments are garnished with a jealousy that is quite obvious. As I see it, You are a wanabe who comes here acting like you know something about the KRS and you are such an expert. But I have been working in this field of study for some time and I do get paid well for doing my job. And as for pointless and childish drivel. And based on your moronic comments. Your intelligence shines right on through. I will bet my sons know more about geology and dating than you do. Go back to school and study something.
John Ballas
12/20/2013 08:18:17 am
Sorry about my multiple listings. Connection really sucks about now. Scott, Just wanted to say that "Braveheart" was a cool movie. I liked that also. Yes, I did notice some differences in the accuracy of that movie also. But all was done to make the movie more exciting and was not so bad. Now we will see what negative comments come next on this blog?
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SCOTT LUND
12/20/2013 08:52:01 am
Exactly John, media said it was a true story, but I have yet to see a true story without dramatic license utilized. That movie never showed that the time he was gone learning was as a monk in Glasgow I believe, and that he was from a wealthy family. It said his uncle took him away and taught him respect for freedom, but it was a Bishop that indoctrinated him there. The killing of his wife he married in secret being the spark starting the fire, that is thought to be accurate. But as to open field warfare? No, it was at Sterling Bridge he let a couple thousand through and then slaughtered them, sending the rest that witnessed the lack of chivalrous tactics to run away. BUT, I agree with you John, great movie, inaccurate many times, but I found the truth only by inspiration of epic film. Without it, perhaps I would have no idea of what I just wrote above, and I enjoyed finding out all the info I wrote above. I am a little miffed though....Mel Gibson will not send me a copy of his historical journal verifying that Scotland existed before 1996...it takes all kinds, ya know?
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SCOTT LUND
12/20/2013 08:56:34 am
And before you tell me that my copy of the DVD has all that information in the Extras under "The Making of Brave Heart", I should not have to go out and buy new batteries for my remote, come back home and push a button....not gonna happen.
John Ballas
12/20/2013 09:40:02 am
Really? There were extras on the DVD? I did not know that. Now I have to check it out. I think it is great that the inaccuracies lead you to learn more about really happened. I have also learned that at Sterling Bridge is where it all started. It is good to know this. Even before you watch the movie. So in your mind you know the truth before you enjoy the Drama. How cool is that? History is such a great subject, no matter how people want to see it. Mystery is also a great aspect of it. Makes us want to know more.
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Ray
12/20/2013 05:45:09 pm
Scott, I really don't care if you think the show is just entertainment. It's not just entertainment for me, and I've said why.
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Ray
12/20/2013 05:58:28 pm
Scott Lund wrote: "...I mentioned that the stone was wire brushed in the early 1900's..."
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SCOTT LUND
12/20/2013 10:27:25 pm
Ray, you say that has been your point all along? So a final example of how you base your condemnation and strange retorts towards myself and others is based off of evidence such as my post about the wire brushing and myself not seeing any connection to that throwing off the dating? Hmmmm....
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/21/2013 02:31:29 am
In his book, Scott Wolter explains in detail how he studied the weathering of minerals in the incised Runes ...
SCOTT LUND
12/21/2013 11:24:35 am
Ray, Reverend is so very correct in his repeating of this too you, and your reasons that this is not proper are wrong. Why waste time and try to explain and debate each aspect of the methods used and validity of when it is the whole process that was credible. How can you expect to be an asset to a debate when you are unaware of the material other than second hand relay as your foundation if your request was granted?? That is what you are asking, second hand relay first leading to a fruitless discussion that is therefore a waste of time. Your request is so very contrary to the accurate protocol of discovery you champion. Can you see that at all??? even a little bit???
ray
12/21/2013 05:16:09 pm
I'm sorry that you can't control yourself and that you must resort to personal attacks because you can't understand what I'm saying. I'm also sorry that you think that a compromised sample can still provide you with confidence in an age determination. I'm also sorry that you think a TV show that's only half in English is equivalent to a peer-reviewed study. And I'm sorry that you have such confidence in an alleged dating method that has never been put before experts in dating before it was published in a popular book. I'm also sorry that you think science is done that way. And of course, I'm sorry that you just don't care that referring me somewhere else is equivalent to answering my questions. Oh, and I'm sorry that your take on what constitutes science is no better than what the creationists, the UFOlogists, the Bigfoot believers, the alternative medicine believers, the conspiracy buffs, etc. call science. Other than all of that, you're doing just fine. Have fun with your personal attacks-in-lieu-of-science belief system. Toodles.
SCOTT LUND
12/21/2013 11:11:38 am
the above post had a typo..."I do not believe it can never be assessed on its own merits" was suppose to say "I do not believe it can "ever" be assessed on it's own merits. I think the surrounding context shows that it was a typo, but just to be clear....
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John Ballas
12/23/2013 01:11:27 pm
Merry Christmas everyone.
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SCOTT LUND
12/23/2013 01:14:30 pm
And a very Merry Christmas to you John.
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John Ballas
12/23/2013 02:19:56 pm
I have noticed here that all is hashing out the dating systems being used and what is right or wrong. Also I have noticed on Scott Wolters show that he is always trying to figure out who has made the Runes and where these individuals were heading. And how old the Runes are. Well it seems to me if we start taking a harder look at studying the Scandinavian Peninsula. The people who lived there and there cultures then maybe we could better understand who and why these people have decided that they should come here. For riches or land claims or what not. And Ultimately we can sit here and argue the facts on proper dating systems all we want. But in the end we do not find the real answers we are looking for. And these answers are going to be very difficult to find whether we like it or not. Because most of the people that make up Sweden, Norway, Demark, and Finland are all Enthnic Slavs who migrated to the north from central Europe, and of those, Originated from just south of the Caucasus Mountains. And the reason I do know this is because over 60% of all who live in this region today have a shared DNA Haplogroup R1 mutation M253 that Is connected with all Slavs that migrated to central Europe and to the north into what we now know as Scandinavia.
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Jon Bryant
12/25/2013 01:32:18 pm
Jon Bryant12/24/2013 2:46am
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joe
12/28/2013 04:38:53 pm
Tara jordan your a bitch you should try getting out there as oppose to sitting on a computer and commenting on a blog on a blog congratulations your 0 degrees away from being retarded
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John Ballas
1/4/2014 03:07:56 pm
Is the "bitch" label you just received a standard degree or an Honorary degree? And did you have to take any classes for that?))))
Jason Rumsey
2/22/2014 06:26:34 am
No, just the type of bitch I would throw overboard in a sea storm, but that's beside the point. I have to tell you, if your job on this site is to work people up, you are doing a great job, if you don't have a job on this site then you REALLY NEED to stop calling people retarded moronic and the like. This is of course your own personnel opinion but if you value your health I would stop. Just saying, there are allot of psychopaths out there and you pushing their buttons is not a good idea, ask your boyfriend Jason. You can find anyone nowadays, all you need is a name, which you have provided and important knowledge that you have also provided out in your blogs. I am just trying to let you know that some people don't take to kindly to others attacking their character or even there mental status. 2/22/2014 06:39:00 am
Enough, Jason. As per my new comments policy of 1/24/14, personal attack and insults will now result in automatic deletion. This is your warning.
FAAQ2
12/29/2013 11:17:29 am
I find it rather funny that everyone seems to think that Scott Wolter is full of crap - and yet probably believe that Al Gore - a shameless charlatan claims that global warming is real. And Oh yes the earth is the only place where intelligent life exists in the Universe. I don't see you so called experts stepping up and claiming anything other then you are correct and Scott is wrong - and the same ones that think only an overweight italian in 3 ships found North America in 1492..
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John Ballas
12/29/2013 12:29:57 pm
Was Columbus overweight? Lol...... I thought you had to live in United States to get Fat. Maybe he discovered weightwatchers too.....
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SCOTT LUND
12/29/2013 08:47:03 pm
So if I understand you correctly, Al Gore, the overweight Italian, is causing global warming because Charlotte's Tan is shameless and you do not see anyone in the universe stepping up to argue it would only take 3 ships to find intelligent life to verify they are correct and Scott is wrong because they are the same ones who say Al Gore found North America...OK, I agree
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John Ballas
12/30/2013 11:26:15 am
Scott, Remember this? Al Gore invented the internet??? What a prolific man. Just for the fun of it. I should check if he has any Honorary Degrees. Maybe in ecology or climatology.
SCOTT LUND
1/4/2014 06:39:43 am
Of course he invented it, he is the first authority in AlGoreRythm's...
SCOTT LUND
1/4/2014 06:46:37 am
And yes, now you too are infected. Ever since I first linked algorithm with Al Gor Rythm, I have not been able to think of one without the other, it will NOT leave my head...Kinda like the kids and their Barney Songs.
Joe Welch
12/29/2013 06:43:39 pm
Scott,
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John Ballas
12/30/2013 11:19:30 am
I want to go back to the comments about Scott Wolters Honorary Degree. I was just on Ancestry .com. I was there researching my next project. And I did com across some information on George Washington. I thought it was interesting. I will paste this word for word from the site.
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12/30/2013 11:22:05 am
You seem to misunderstand the problem. The issue isn't whether an honorary degree has value (everyone from Maya Angelou to Stephen Colbert has one) but rather that Scott Wolter does NOT have an honorary degree, but claimed to have one anyway.
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John Ballas
12/30/2013 11:50:58 am
It does not really matter to me, a degree means nothing at all. Go to college and take some classes and pay for a title that claims to be a degree. Or Honorary degree. Same thing, means nothing. The only thing a degree does, is reinforce someone who thinks they are a expert and boost the ego trip they are on. I value the work someone does, not their title. Scott has a television show. And if it was of any harm, I am sure it would not be on air. Scott can make all the claims he wants, but I will still watch his show. Maybe I will agree with his finds, maybe I won't. But I will respect his opinions. His Ideas are what make people gain interest in this field. And to make people think is healthy. Maybe by his show, more truth and newer ideas will be born. Bottom line he is doing good. Look at all of the bad science of the past. We beheld these opinions and then proved them false. This is the same thing here. History is not being changed. It is being looked at more closely. Especially by the younger generation who does not even get this type of teachings in schools these days. 12/30/2013 11:54:13 am
Have I ever said that a degree was needed to make claims? (I don't have an advanced degree.) Evidence is what matters. But when a public figure fibs about his resume, that's news, which is what I reported when I wrote this last year.
John Ballas
12/30/2013 12:07:32 pm
Jason , care to start a blog on politics.? You will find loads of these people. And at the same time you could become a household name. Think about it? All the advertising you could do on it. Its money in the bank.
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John Ballas
12/30/2013 12:46:36 pm
I agree. And the subject matter is also sad. Sometimes I wonder if it will really matter who came to America first? Maybe there should be a show about "What will become of this America"? And who will be here next? I try not to become depressed thinking about it. I focus on things I can try to have an impact on. So we carry on. Thanks for you responses. I appreciate .
Years ago, a college professor loaned me a book published by the Smithsonian. It was available through subscription only to college teachers. In it, there was an article about the discovery of pre-Columbian, European or Middle Eastern-made artifacts discovered various places in the United States. I know from dealing with professorial types that most of them don't want their theories challenged so resistance is natural coming from them. Still, Wolter's televised 2013 programs are really grasping at straws and getting off the track of archaeology. Even the Great Wall of Texas, if you examine the core samples, appear to have come from a single stone. How are you going to get a magnetic trace that is different from various parts of the same stone? Duh!
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/1/2014 10:10:05 am
I think that the H2 "America Unearthed" TV shows have positive value precisely in doing what they HAVE obviously done, i.e., encouraging thought and discussion and exploration of North American history and pre-history, which may or may not mostly match-up with the received traditions ...
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John Ballas
1/1/2014 12:34:00 pm
Rev. Phil , thank you for your input. These were my feelings all along. Whether the show is right or wrong or who has what degree or even makes the claim of a degree. What matters is how the show inspires all of this discussion. The question at hand is, What really happened? Unfortunately nobody cares what really happened. All anyone cares about is a claim of a honorary degree. And if every one here could do some quality research and add it to what Scott is trying to do. Then maybe, just maybe, this can all make some sense. Remember, if it was not for the show, we would not all be here debating all of this. Every one here seems to have some good points, just try not to be so negative. 1/1/2014 01:03:50 pm
John, this is a change of pace for Phil, who has spent much of the last year telling me that I shouldn't be discussing America Unearthed's claims because I needed to "lighten up" and treat the show as "entertainment." You're welcome to join the many and varied conversations about the show in my weekly episode reviews, available by clicking the "America Unearthed Reviews" link at right.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/1/2014 02:36:14 pm
Jason … 1/1/2014 09:50:37 pm
You have an odd sense of "longstanding." The Clovis-first paradigm (as opposed to Clovis culture) entered archaeology around 1945, was widespread in the 1960s ("Man the Hunter" phase), and was repudiated before 1990. That means that it was the predominant paradigm for less time than the Mound Builders paradigm (c. 1780-1894), and almost the same amount of time that science accepted Piltdown Man (1912-1953).
Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/3/2014 09:18:19 am
Jason … to refresh your memory … 1/3/2014 09:28:49 am
You must get paid by the ellipsis. I'm not understanding why you are so incensed about the Clovis-first paradigm, which was in full swing for barely 30 years and was disproved by actual evidence that could be reviewed and replicated. Were archaeologists of the 1960s too dogmatic? Sure, but that was half a century ago, and most of them are now dead. It hasn't been the 1960s for a very long time, and there's no point in tarring all of modern archaeology based on what you didn't like about 1960s textbooks.
John Ballas
1/1/2014 02:46:09 pm
I can see that Tara is still on here comming up with her. unproductive comments. Now we can see that she has some knowledge of the Drugs she is on. I can see she did a little "Molly" last night.
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Bob Zacherl
1/3/2014 06:11:53 am
Scott was way off on the cave in Pennsylvania. He claimed it to be made by masons for ceremonies. My neighbor has known about the cave for a long time and knew it was built for the underground railroad. After episode aired my neighbor visited alegheny college in Meadville pa and search the cave. He found it was built by the land owner to hide the slaves on their way to Canada for the underground railroad. All info was they to see,
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Margi
1/3/2014 07:08:01 am
First of all, having a higher degree, whether honorary or earned, doesn't mean the person knows what he or she is talking about. One of the smartest people I've ever heard of is Jack Horner, a paleontologist at Montana State University...no PhD, but still the expert on dinosaurs. Second of all, in my experience just about anyone can get a higher degree. I've known plenty of people with supposed "earned" doctorates who aren't very bright...except they knew how to play the game. Third of all, if Wolter is bright enough to get himself a TV program on the history channel, good for him. I did read his book about the Kensington stone, though...not very intelligently written, I must say.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/3/2014 09:04:20 am
Seriously …
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/3/2014 09:42:27 am
Jason … 1/3/2014 10:02:27 am
You have to remember, Phil, that at the time there was only one site that presented evidence of pre-Clovis material, and those findings were disputed. (I'm not disputing them; I studied archaeology with one of the archaeologists who worked Monte Verde.) When all of the evidence points in one direction (at the time, Clovis-first), it takes more than one person's efforts to counter the weight of evidence. That's why it required multiple archaeologists to validate it.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/3/2014 02:07:11 pm
Jason … 1/3/2014 10:27:49 pm
Meadowcroft Rock Shelter in Pennsylvania remains controversial, and archaeologists remain divided about the evidence for its age, even after the "paradigm shift" that interests you so. As you well know replication and confirmation are keys to scientific acceptance, and a single date from a single site isn't enough to warrant a paradigm shift; repeated results are what is needed.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/4/2014 03:33:04 am
Jason -- 1/4/2014 03:57:53 am
You are purposely conflating time periods, Phil. What I said is that when the site was first excavated in 1977, it was the first to provide strong evidence of a pre-Clovis occupation. There are now other pre-Clovis sites known, but they were found later. By 1990, Stephen Williams was already writing in "Fantastic Archaeology" that most of his colleagues accepted the site's date, and in 1997 a panel of 12 archaeologists verified the findings.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/4/2014 04:25:09 am
Jason -- 1/4/2014 05:05:21 am
But how do you know that dates "are what they are"? A single carbon date doesn't do anything; multiple samples and replication are necessary, and sources of error need to be ruled out. Ideally, others who were not involved in the first dating attempts should review the evidence and take independent samples. All of this takes time, and these kinds of controls are used so that episodes like the Piltdown Hoax don't happen. You seem, for obvious reasons, to be promoting the idea that one person with one test should have the presumption of correctness.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/4/2014 05:17:47 am
Jason -- 1/4/2014 05:49:03 am
I'm not being hostile, Phil. "Bro" is a rather juvenile vocative, and I was surprised at you for using it.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/4/2014 07:15:02 am
As you know by now … as I've indicated numerous times (above), my problem is that for a few DECADES, any and all pre-Clovis site dates were airily dismissed out of hand as *wrong* BY DEFINITION simply cause they COULDN'T be *right* because everybody already KNEW that "Clovis" IS "the oldest" … 1/9/2014 05:48:17 am
Rev. 1/3/2014 12:38:09 pm
Jason,
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SCOTT LUND
1/4/2014 07:12:39 am
In an earlier post between John Ballas and Jason, John mentioned he wondered if the actual proof of Pre Columbus land discovery would matter to anything. Perhaps not what Jason wants as that is not the subject of this one particular thread, but....Good Question, what and how would it matter? Why the hoopla? Would any prior treaties and ownership have any possibility of legal disqualification?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/4/2014 07:39:49 am
Unfortunately …
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John Ballas
1/4/2014 08:01:29 am
I am going to agree with what Rev, Phils Comment. I have been studiing the Slavic people for some time and there migrations. And it is all of the same. But information is tough to find, because a lot of it predates 30,000 to 20,000 years ago. So I try to keep it closer to the last 1200 years. So it is more in line with American history.
SCOTT LUND
1/4/2014 09:14:29 pm
Funny you mentioned how the Anishinaabe pushed out the Sioux, I censored myself on that post as I also asked if our present treaties with the Canadian immigrants and newest residents of the land now called America, would hold up since the Norse were here before the Cree and the Canadian Anishinaabe/Algonquin Peoples. Kinda like the $17 dollars in beads, they were the wrong tribe to have the authority,as they were just passing through... so of course they said sure and actually got what turned out to be a good deal.
Mark Kostbade
1/4/2014 03:43:59 pm
I am pretty sure this blogger (Jason) has an honorary Ph.D. at putting people down for no good reason. Jason, why are you so viscous?
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Only Me
1/4/2014 08:29:22 pm
Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease?
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1/4/2014 10:32:01 pm
Do you complain when the news reports on public figures? Did you object that the media was "putting people down" when they reported in 2007 that MIT's dean of admissions had a fake diploma, prompting her to resign? Was that being "negative"?
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josephs
1/6/2014 12:19:51 pm
As a general observation of say 1/5 of the posts, a trend in the ones who support Wolter start of by saying they have no credentials formally as such, but have always suspected the establishment to be hiding/covering up/shutting down various historical artifacts that would rock the academic world. Do you have any opinion on why people feel that in all of academia, everyone from student to professor, desire to suppress the ones who wish to change history completely? I mean that is a vast number of people, with the ability to go down in history as a game changer if there were truth in the fringe claims.
anne Beal
1/4/2014 04:07:57 pm
Just watched the episode Arizona Cross. Fascinating stuff about Exxon and the Knights Templar. So...when Mussolini's body was hanged upside down at a gas station by an angry mob, do you know what kind of gas station it was? Yup, it was an Esso! No, I'm not making that up!
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Ed Chrumka
1/4/2014 05:55:43 pm
I watched the latest Scott Wolter show discussing the lost colony of Roanoke. It was a strange experience listening to a forensic geologist twist unrelated events, guesswork and supposition into "theories". I must admit I was very entertained when legitimate historians rebuked his notions, but annoyed when he suggested to a Cambridge history professor that Queen Elizabeth had syphilis. Does the History Channel care about history? Does anyone at the History Channel realize how Queen Elizabeth is revered by the English people? I did inspect the credits and discovered that he gets his Indiana Jones wardrobe from Duluth Trading. Too bad, I liked their stuff and now I can't see myself wearing it because I'm afraid I might be mistaken for Scott Wolter. The show is not educational - unless you believe that Al Gore invented the Internet.
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SCOTT LUND
1/4/2014 09:20:40 pm
Cool, I get to repeat this.....Of couse Al Gore invented the Internet, well at least the main part of how it works...AlGoreithms, without them the internet is nothing. Duh...
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John Ballas
1/5/2014 05:02:50 am
I watched the episode also. And as I can remember. The Cambridge professor also told Scott that there was no record or even evidence that Queen Elizabeth had any sort of disease let alone syphilis. He was corrected and I am sure he agreed. And it was just a thought because it was common disease in those days. Oh and the Al Gore comment I had made, if you had any form of common sense , you would have known it was sarcasm
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Bat Boy
1/4/2014 09:42:49 pm
Pure tripe and codswallop written by your crazy neighbor, the delusional fantasist; which makes it perfect for the History Channel which has long since become the Pseudoscience Channel.
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SCOTT LUND
1/5/2014 04:52:16 am
Bat Boy, where will you stand when proof comes forward, perhaps as soon as this summer, confirming the Greenland/Scandinavian migration through Minnesota was more widespread than 22 and 8? Still sniffing you own guano? I bet you will still act like it don't stink as you dig your heels into story time of safe history.
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John Ballas
1/5/2014 05:08:03 am
Scott, Bat Boy is just another one of those who has to hide behind a name. And feels safety because this is only a blog site. Meanwhile, he is probably home watching reruns of Ghost Hunters, And Ghost Adventures.
Bat Boy
1/8/2014 07:40:53 pm
Scott,
Scott Lund
1/13/2014 09:40:16 am
@BatBoy ~ I acknowledge and empathize with your quest for recognition and acknowlegment, however, H2's "The Quest for Bat Boy" special was cancelled as it showed the mental deficiencies that exist in anything or anyone associated with that mutation, and they therefore felt it would be politically incorrect and tasteless to profit off the misfortunes of such outcasts shunned from social society due to their inability to recognize the stench of their own defecation, both in the physical aspect, and in the social interaction metaphor that is how their communication is viewed by general society. While I feel I would have enjoyed analyzing the interactions of such moronic simpletons, I trust, and shall adhere to support of the H2 producers and their decisions. It is in keeping with that support am unable to answer your questions now or in the future....you are just too easy of a target. Sorry, but thanks for playing???
david johnson
1/5/2014 11:01:31 am
America Unearthed is just a tv show. It's supposed to be interesting and generate revenue. Although nothing is ever discovered that hasn't been seen before, it's fun to watch. Much like that fat little redneck girl who thinks she's a beauty queen. Don't get upset because you are smarter than the show, it's supposed to be entertainment, not rocket science. Scott please be forgiving of the folks who hate you for making a living off of other peoples ignorance, that's show biz.
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1/5/2014 11:22:12 am
David, if it is entertainment without education it should be on A&E not the History Channel. That said, I guess if if the History Channel wants to defecate on their brand, that is their choice.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/5/2014 12:13:22 pm
I had never heard of "the menehune" of Hawaii before the latest show …
John Ballas
1/5/2014 12:23:49 pm
Jason, You are "Big Time" now. Honey Boo Boo makes your blog! I wonder what she thinks of America Unearthed? Yeee Haaaaa!!!!
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John Ballas
1/5/2014 03:44:47 pm
What I find really fascinating is how people here can get so bent out of shape over a Television show. I mean this crap goes on every day. People making claims that do not hold water. Listen to the News. All of these politicians, and the lies they tell. And different Newsgroups that support them. But some people have been here making the same old comments for a year now. O.K. why not just come out and say it. You hate Scott Wolters guts like it is personal or something. You same people are losing too much sleep over it. It's time to get a life. Or maybe program the parental controls on your remote so you cannot watch H2. Also there are some good psychiatrists online you can talk to. Also Tara knows which Pyramid you can get some good Esctasy to put you in a better mood.
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Rev. Phil Gotsh
1/6/2014 02:14:09 am
Yeah … Go figure ... 1/6/2014 02:29:53 am
Because I publish the website "The Greater Yellowstone Resource Guide" http://www.greater-yellowstone.com , the Discovery Channel producer of the Deadliest Catch contacted my and asked if I know of any exciting jobs in the Yellowstone region that might make a compelling television show. I referred them to the grizzly bear management team. Now if I didn't have integrity I could have promoted myself. You see I lead wildlife safaris around Yellowstone and am also a wildlife photographer. Yes I could have misrepresented myself and made a bucket full of money telling lies about the glory and danger of what I do and I could have made it entertaining, but it would have been a lie. 1/5/2014 04:44:14 pm
Wow, I just scrolled up the blog, Scott really has some dedicated sycophants!
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John Ballas
1/6/2014 11:57:39 am
You might be right there, I don't mind the kiss ass part. But it is irritating when people obsess about things they do not have any control over. And this show will be on air no matter how much they bitch. High ratings keep it on. So if you don't like it, don't watch. And no, we do not need a Yellowstone show. I suggest just going there and checking out the place instead. Great place to go.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/12/2014 10:10:04 am
The Scott Wolter BASHERS are the apparently truly dedicated sycophants, having put up entire blogs and MANY posts ...
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SCOTT LUND
1/18/2014 04:58:39 pm
Daryl, I absolutely have to say that on your site you have thee best and most awe inspiring gallery of any I can think of, including NG and Life. I actually just relaxed watching the slide show, and did not scroll, just let them come up and wow me with each fantastic pic. Thank You.
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1/19/2014 12:58:58 am
Thanks Scott, it is a labor of love, I do wish NG would scroll though a bit more often :D
Scott Lund
1/19/2014 09:19:32 am
I am surprised they have not had you freelance for them, the filters you use enhance a relaxation after the awe, it really does lift you up to let you relax. My ignorant impression of NG is they seem to cherish more of a foreboding, the rain is coming enhancement.
John
1/11/2014 02:02:07 pm
The Heart of Quantum Theory:
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fan101
1/11/2014 05:39:58 pm
I googled Scott Wolton after watching an episode of America Unearthed tonight to see if I could find any additional followup info. I wasn't expected to fall into this blog. I scanned the past year of posts briefly and just wanted to say ... shame on you all for your pettiness. How about you all put your energy into continuing the research of the artifacts that do exist, that have been hidden from the public and not taught in our schools. I find the show delightful. I do not care what Scott calls himself, nor do I care about his degrees or credentials. It is TV, enough said. I do care that the places he goes to and the artifacts shown are real. That being said, what other TV shows air this type of history, especially in the US. They are amazing and exciting and I am thrilled that this program is aired and revealing our nation's treasures and mysteries. I would so much rather watch stories about these amazing places I'll never get to see in person, than waste time on the popular reality shows that plague the networks today and do nothing but promote the degradation of our society. Scott fell into a dream opportunity ... KUDOS to him. At least this show may inspire some young minds to grow up and pursue exciting careers ... as opposed to poisoning their minds with the immoral trash on the other networks.
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SCOTT LUND
1/12/2014 01:39:25 pm
@Fan101, Bravo! Bravo! (except for that pettiness part, 'cause I ain't growing up and I rather enjoy irritating the "Know it all," to whom everything is known, except that everything they know today, come 'morrow is wrong.
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Eileen
11/30/2014 02:05:28 am
I agree with fan101...shame on you all. I am an educated person, have a master's degree in mental heath therapy and have lived a long, well rounded life. I see a lot of other therapists with masters degrees and it scares me that people go to them for help! My point is that a degree is proof that you studied a lot and did what you needed to do to get the degree. Itt does NOT mean you will be good at what you do. I LOVE the opening of his show when he says the history is all wrong. We have been fed crap from the government, from schools, etc for a long time and we need to start thinking critically and independently!! And they are taking control more and more everyday and we sit by and do nothing. There is so much out there that cannot be explained, and established science gets very threatened when someone suggests something different. C'mon people open your minds and do some of your own research and stop wasting time criticizing someone who is at least asking questions!! And stop believing everything you are fed just because someone in "authority" said so!!
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Bill Robertson
1/13/2014 11:46:18 am
Scott,
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Jamie Eckles
1/19/2014 06:10:33 am
To start a show off with the proclamation "The history we were all taught growing up is wrong" started me off on the wrong foot. Anyone doing science who declares something like that isn't really doing science. Yes, SOME of what we were taught is wrong, but not most of it. I'm glad people like Jason are around to give point by point critiques of the claims that are made by people like Mr Wolter. The few shows I've watched have really troubled me with his lack of any deeper background on the experts he uses or the conclusions he makes. I was taught that science is ALWAYS probationary, and that if the data changes then the science corrects itself. It really doesn't appear as if Mr Wolter is interesting in getting at the truth, preferring instead to reach for the sensational and titillating, give the audience what he thinks they want to hear. Debunking exists because some people can't sit by and watch bunk be promoted as science. I'll finish with this quote by someone I admire:
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Lor
1/25/2014 07:49:36 am
Having first come across this article and the comments attached to it in February, the fact that it is still flailing along is utterly one of the funniest things I have ever seen. The time people have put into this and the hilarious nature of the repetitive posts are the definition of children playing in mud.
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Scott Lund
1/25/2014 08:51:43 am
Yet Lor, here you are, and almost a year later adding fuel to the fire...but it's O.K., at least now I can apologize to someone "directly" for taking that blue lined parking spot last week. I am sorry, and it will not happen again.
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Ron
1/28/2014 01:28:20 am
By responding you obviously take Lor's comment personally, Scott. Would there be a reason for that?
Scott Lund
1/28/2014 12:24:40 pm
Yep! Pet peave when someone is full of themselves while complaining about an issue of pettiness implied to be beneath them, yet they are annoyingly unaware they are continuing to facilitate more of the same. You are aware of the ironic nature of this first hand, right Ron?
Matt
1/25/2014 01:51:36 pm
...and Bob Villa wasn't a contractor and never built a thing in his life. So goes the world of entertainment.
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CINDY THOMPKINS
1/25/2014 06:55:01 pm
SCOTT, excellent program, excellent coverage of material. Keep up the good work and may the GOOD LORD guide you in all of your endeaveors. Be blessed!!!
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CINDY THOMPKINS
1/25/2014 07:03:58 pm
SCOTT, Excellent program, Excellent coverage of material. Keep up the good work, and may the GOOD LORD guide you in all of your endeavors. BE BLESSED. And....JASON, try helping instead of hating. (errors corrected) AMEN.
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Jerry Falkman
1/27/2014 04:55:16 am
There is no doubt in my mind that the prime motive for all these bull shit shows is GREED. I believe there is little regard for the truth as long as someone can make the almightily buck.
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Cloud Proud
1/27/2014 05:45:31 am
I can't help but question the number of overly friendly supportive comments on this site in favor of Scott. Given the extreme number of comments on other sites mocking him, his work, his abilities, or shall we call them inability to find his backside with a map both hands and a squadron of Knights Templars to guide him to it. My feelings is this is camouflage and market manipulation, you know like what BP did with that little leak in the Gulf. The hired a marketing company to go online and post all sorts of positive things about them to keep them in a positive publicity light. How many of the "Commenters" on here are real, and not a marketer working for Scott or for Discovery Inc. trying to keep the show from tanking? Given the fact that his specialty is nothing more than a concrete inspector, I did that same job working road construction building bridges and Highways, does that mean I get to lie on my resume too? I can forgo my IT career and make up all sorts of wild lies about archaeology. I have a YouTube channel so I guess I am almost on TV, as good as. LOL To think I spent all that time, money working getting degrees in Networking, Programing, Web Development, and a Business degree to go with them. When I could pull it out my backside no Knights Templar required. Though I am related by blood on my fathers side, have three castles in France with our family's name on them. But that is another true story Scott only deals with fantasy so will refrain from things like that when dealing with him. There is or was talk of an online petition to remove his show, ones like it due to the fact that they are simply lies. School children have enough trouble grasping real facts not made up pseudo new age science. Discovery is guilty of the "If you repeat a lie enough time it becomes a truth. Get enough people to believe it then it has to be real even if there are no facts. Remember facts pesky facts and the last election, they are doing the same thing Fox news does to news. Wolter might as well go to work for them he would fit right in with the people working the news desk making the "News" up as they go along, all bad as long as it get's whoever is on the enemies list. Obama case in point, anyone not a GOP TP Party member, White, rich top 10%, or works for a living. Basically the same views as Scott, don't get me started on the Brown, Black, Red, Yellow, Skinned people needing a White person to lead them out of stupidity, ignorance, into the light. LOL how self centered can you get to bring race into things. Then again that is what you get from a glorified concrete inspector playing Indiana Jones on TV. Given his lack of respect for other cultures, races, nationalities, its clear he has had not training in even the basic Anthropology, or Sociology, or for that matter Psychology, no just how to play with concrete. Feel a letter to Discovery Inc. suggesting they keep him home playing with concrete and off the air, maybe an new online petition with that on it. LOL
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Ron
1/28/2014 01:25:09 am
Cloud-
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/29/2014 09:28:00 am
How about this … ???
Cloud Proud
1/31/2014 10:32:11 am
Here is an example of what is meant by people not liking America Unearthed. I posted something about it, someone complained about what I said so another poster explained to them why we complain about this show. I don't want to post the exact location of the site it's popular for streaming instead of cable. The fact that streaming links take days not hours to get posted to the site tells people it's an unpopular show. No more than one person or bot is posting links when the average is ten to twenty posting five to ten links per day. Now the American Horror Story is over people might be forced to watch crap like this but I doubt it. People can always find something to watch, read a book, do something other than watch "American Cover Up"-$cotts attempt at covering up reality with his version of fantasy BS. If you're concerned that I just posted negative comments not ones supporting the show, I wouldn't do that. I would post some supporting "American Delu$ion$ for Ca$h money", if I could find one.
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1/30/2014 08:05:38 am
When I was eight or nine years old – about 50 years ago – I started to become seriously fascinated by the world around me. I began consciously to try to discover how things worked, what made people tick and why things were as they were. It intrigued me why we could eat eggs all year round but chestnuts only at certain times. Why did the moon sometimes look round and sometimes not; why did some people go to their church on Sunday while others went to the synagogue on Saturday (and what were those strange letters above the synagogue door)? I read books, visited museums and, later, attended lectures, pleasurably absorbing the history of the things I saw on my daily round, whether at home or further afield. Everything tells its own story and it quickly became abundantly clear that I had to choose between the mutually contradictory versions I read or was told before I could entertain a clear idea about anything. Checking my references was of the essence!
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Al Connelly
2/1/2014 12:11:18 pm
It is not surprise that Discovery Inc retains Scott Wolter. He bogus and Discovery programming is a series of lies and distortion. Often the programs dispense Progressive Koolaid to poison the minds of the unsuspecting.
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Debbie
2/1/2014 12:23:30 pm
I think Scott you're doing an amazing job I record every episode and find it very interestingit's amazing how much they are hiding the truth they just don't want to rewrite history keep up your amazing work love your show
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Cloud Proud
2/1/2014 09:55:35 pm
Debbie, Who exactly are they? Who are the nameless, faceless, unseen, all knowing history denying, lying, Monsters that having nothing better to do then lie to everyone about Americas and its pre Columbus History? Every single one of the Conspiracy theorist can never seem to solve that riddle, why is that? I mean in order to have a Conspiracy don't you have to have actual members of said Conspiracy for it too exist? You can't just make a blanket claim like Scott Wolter has done and provided no proof that "They" exist. If you're talking about private land owners that don't want him trespassing on their lands. With his crazy theories that once published will bring even more nuts like some on this blog out of the trees to further trespass on said private lands. To also look for the clues that we have already established Mr. Wolter is nothing more than a glorified concrete inspector playing a part on TV. That some of you seem to be unable to separate the acting from reality of just what he is. IS this the "They" you speak of people not wanting every nut in the world coming on their lands acting as if they own them, have a god given right to be there do what they will. All in the pursuit of phoney I won't even call it science since science has rules, is made up of facts, deals in realities not pulled out of the backside of a Concrete Inspector with delusions of grandeur that he is Indiana EFFing Jones out to prove some great mysteries to people with "Low intelligence" that don't get that he has an agenda to sell his books, other crap to you. All in the name of Profiting from it, that is his sole motivations. He does not do this out of some need to set the record straight, or anything remotely like it. All else fails follow the money, right into his pockets. If it was he would not be selling anything have no agenda nothing to prove would not be pushing his work on Clueless people like he is a scholar when he is a liar. Can you provide an example of "They" I would really like to meet, talk with them? I don't want some oversimplified the Government, if you're going to go that rout you better be able to give names, dates, departments, phone numbers, agencies, everything else. Because everyone else that is making claims on here about Scotts lack of abilities seems to be able to provide more than enough real evidence to back things up. I understand certain Political groups have issues with those pesky little things like "Facts" but then it cost them one election is about to cost them several more. It also applies in this case those pesky "Facts" sure seem to get in the way of what Scott is selling so he forgets to mention a lot of them on his show, books, lectures, etc. So if people don't talking about them how are others going to know he is selling BS forgetting to mention things like the Kensington Rune Stone has been proven to be a fake, but he never mentions that on his show. Keeps using it as evidence to support most if not all of his claims. Simply Google KRS and the Hoax, Fake, Scott, do some research might learn more than you intend too. Then again pesky things those "Facts" always getting in the way of a good lie. I will be waiting patiently for an example of "They" but won't be holding my breath, since I don't think you will ever come up with a single one. But I am sure your excuses will provide some much needed laughs too! If your going to make a statement about faith and having to simply believe in things, I will be forced to point out recent studies to the link between Faith/Religion and Mental Health disorders. As in believing in "They". Unseen group out to stop the truth getting out, could go on but my point is Wolter sounds more like a escaped mental patient the more I read his work watch his show. With a persecution complex trying to get people to share in his paranoia. Seeing things that are not there, all the classic signs of someone that is in need of help. Not a psychiatrist just worked at a treatment center for a few years but I could make a good case for treatment.
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cj
2/1/2014 01:18:23 pm
You gotta blog, He gotta tv show (second season, btw). I think we all get it. Interestingly it is a tv show, not a work of science. Scott Wolter is like Agent Mulder, he wants to believe, in everything! It is so amusing to read all the pseudo intellectual angst on this blog. Hush little children, don't watch such deeply troubling programs. Rather, read boring blogs about escapist tv shows that decry the lack of science and questionable credentials of it's principals. Tv, it'll rot your brain.
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Cloud Proud
2/1/2014 11:21:49 pm
CJ, Great point Jason has a great blog and Scott has a crappy show that is on its second year. Not sure where you were going with your posting so I will go with this: The Simpsons Season 25, Episode 11 Specs and the City, The Vampire Diaries Season 5, Episode 12 The Devil Inside, Doctor Who Episode 27 The Time of the Doctor, American Horror Story Season 3, Episode 13 The Seven Wonders, Family Guy Season 12, Episode 11 Brian's a Bad Father.
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cj
2/7/2014 06:06:44 am
Maybe you should wear a warning "threatened by and intolerant of everything and everyone that does not mirror my political views and values no matter how ridiculous". Just an idea.
John Ballas
2/7/2014 06:44:56 am
Wow!!! from the great knowledge that you have from the quality programs you watch I can't imagine how you came up with so much to say here. Your life must be sooooo exciting! And as far as your opinion, It does not add up to a hill of beans. You need to go back to PBS and watch Sesame Street. And hit rehab at the same time. Maybe you are smoking a few doobies while you watch TV too.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
2/2/2014 08:05:46 am
LOL … Yeah …
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hmmmmm
2/1/2014 02:55:37 pm
It was hysterical when Scott asks the director(or whatever she is) at the Denver airport if it was built by the illuminati....what did he expect.."ok you got me..yes the illuminati built this place" what a joke this guy looks like...but seriuosly..bigfoot is an alien pet that got loose
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ted b.
2/1/2014 05:17:48 pm
scott wolter is a promoter that just rehashes old finds,and adds nothing of scientific or historic credence to these STAGED presentations. .NOTHING SCHOLARLY here!!!!!!!
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Brian Lynch
2/3/2014 05:55:47 am
My girlfriend is a big fan of America Unearthed meanwhile it causes me to cringe listening to the rhetoric mixed with suspenseful music and dramatic camera effects.
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Sofie
2/6/2014 12:29:13 am
ANALYZING SCOTT WOLTER THE SCOTT WOLTER WAY:
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John Ballas
2/7/2014 06:32:03 am
Unbelievable! Sofie, does it make you feel good to get this out??? To let people know you hate Germans too? And accuse them of being Nazi? Or are you just so full of Jealousy? I step back from such drama and I would never engage, or victimize self.
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Sherman Hubbard
2/7/2014 08:10:58 am
Have any of you read the scientific report "Asiatic Echoes - The Identification of Ancient Chinese Pictograms in pre-Columbian North American Rock Writing" by Dr. John Ruskamp?
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Ron
2/9/2014 10:40:49 am
Sherman,
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michael montgomery
2/8/2014 07:29:42 am
People with the negative attitude Scott Wolters is not claiming to be the worlds smartest guy out there he is just simplifying and telling us there is something out there before Christopher Columbus I also followed his show and I also did reports on the places he showed us and my reports are very identical to his. Please remember its only entertainment. if you don't like it don't watch it and give the guy a break.
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Martha
2/12/2014 02:20:13 am
You people suck I use to love watching America Unearthed till i read all this crap.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
2/12/2014 09:29:39 am
Every party of any size seems to attract a few dedicated "poopers" ... 2/12/2014 09:32:13 am
'... before Christopher Columbus I also followed his show and I also did reports on the places he showed us and my reports are very identical to his.'
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No matter whom the person is, as soon as they hit the public light they come under public scrutiny. I don't know Mr. Wolter...but I do watch his show with my children. Some things I agree with and some things I do not. For example, the Dinosaur on the Templar Knight sword; Mr. Wolter claimed this was a lizard. I have never seen a lizard like that. But I have seen dinosaur that looked like that. However, since neither Mr. Wolter were there when that etching was made...who is to say for certain?
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sherri
2/15/2014 02:37:49 pm
I was so excited when this series first began. At the end of the first episode, I was incredibly disappointed. Nothing was proven, just more suppositions, more "could have been", "might be possible", etc. When is there actually going to be an episode where information which was never found before is finally made public? From the looks of the new shows, that is not happening anytime too soon! The show is a phony representation of science or pseudo-science because nothing is ever found or proven.
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Sherri:
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Sherri:
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white coat
2/15/2014 07:48:14 pm
Most that is seen as true is. There are reasons why "what we have been taught are not true" cannot be re-wrote. I have seen sights and know what they say of the past as do many others. Much is interesting as well as fact. We on the earth part titled the United States must relax and enjoy what is left of what our founders left to us. To the few who understand the distant past hold tight and pass to others who you see fit to overtake your knowledge for ages to pass. One day more knowledge will be shared of human&earths past. Our world is more obvious than we. .. . .. . ..
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Andreas
2/20/2014 03:46:59 am
I personally like the show. Yes at some points Scott is 'pushing' his thoughts about what happened in his oppionion but that is what I like about him because most people nowadays only believe in what everyone else believes. And yes there is also some 'drama' added but hey this is tv man.
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Ron
2/22/2014 04:20:15 am
Andreas
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Lynn
2/22/2014 04:44:02 pm
America Unearthed...what a joke. It doesn't suprise me that the host isnt an actual "forensic geologist".The average joe watching the show can tell he doesnt know what he's talking about. I for one cant stand the guy and wouldnt let him investigate the concrete in my house foundation. I guess if HC would make a show with this joker as a host they would make a show about anything....
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Scott Lund
2/22/2014 07:14:15 pm
Lynn, above you is Ron....Ron, below you is Lynn. Go to it kids, it is obvious you both need it desperately.
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Dan
3/4/2014 05:11:59 am
Wow! Looks like a group of people that need jobs. After a long week's work, the show is entertaining and so is Scott. Nothing more, nothing less. When the hour is up, believe what you want to believe.
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Ron
3/5/2014 02:30:02 pm
Yes!
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joe
3/13/2014 07:06:11 am
What I dislike most abut this show is he seems to start at the middle, follows what can be called anecdotal at best and claims are nothing more than assumptions. Lets take the Ark of the covenant ,the holy grail, and the giant cave in the grand canyon. He first needs to prove they actually exists. He just presumes they are real without any facts too back up this belief. kinda pouts the cart before the horse
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Don
3/23/2014 11:55:29 am
Scott Wolters is totally full of shit
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Scott Lund
3/24/2014 05:56:40 am
Gee Don, is that how the whole trailer park feels, or just you?
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Scott Lund
3/24/2014 12:25:23 pm
"Does it appear to anyone else, but there seems to be a whole lot of villages missing their idots???"
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Doug
3/25/2014 05:30:16 am
Touche' Scott....When times get unbearable and I can stomach it, I'll read and catch up on some of the comments posted here which reels me back to reality... I then remember, there are some really Special Kinda Stupid people out there - and they don't know their "Special."
Scott Lund
3/26/2014 04:05:34 pm
Special is as special does....I am as guilty as the next in going there, but I personally hate when people think they are smarter than others when in reality they are just more susceptible to brainwashing or traditional paradigms and unwilling to negotiate those beliefs. To dash that what someone has drawn a correlation towards after intensive study, and to do that because it does not hit all of "their" experiences, does not necessarily mean it is wrong, perhaps it means perhaps they should widen their horizons. Sorry, saw a soap box that had the words, "Climb Me," upon it and I support a following directions paradigm. 3/26/2014 12:27:22 pm
Seems to me Mr Wolter's show has done exactly what it was intended to do.....cause questioning and heated discussion. Whether or not his credentials stand up to 'accepted' standards would seem to be beside the point. I would say we should always question the status quo, always strive to learn more, always seek truth. It is what I like to call 'anglo-european arrogance' to firmly hold to the belief that the americas were soley discovered by European explorers thoughout history. Why is it so hard for the white man to accept that there is a history to this continent that came before him?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
3/27/2014 05:16:02 pm
Yes … The H-2 America Unearthed TV shows have a VERY positive value in stimulating interest in and discussion of North American History and pre-History ...
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Ron
4/1/2014 04:38:21 pm
Yes...The H-2 America Unearthed TV shows have concentrated the focus of numerous wild-eyed, mouth-breathing, conspiracy-spewing nut jobs on this website for well over a year. I’d say that makes life for intelligent Americans safer (as well as offering us opportunities for immense jocularity)…
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/2/2014 04:43:05 pm
April Fool … !!! Good one ..
Scott Lund
4/2/2014 09:14:13 pm
Aww Rev, I missed it and got fooled....I must have been focused on closing my mouth as I breath. I guess me doin that kept Ron from being a target of immense jocularity...Maybe next time!
Robert Goodyear
12/3/2014 09:51:46 am
... and he might be marginally believable had he not lied about his credentials.
Christopher Mann
4/6/2014 05:26:30 am
Let me begin by admitting what many will conclude from my remarks. I am not a scholar, in contemporary vernacular. I have never studied Archaeology, Geology, or even a rudimentary introduction to Physical Education, at any institution of advanced learning. I am a U.S. Army infantry veteran and just about as “un-extraordinary” as one can be. I have a high school education which I’m sure many who comment here, will be rather quick to point out; based on my less than exemplary grammar and punctuation. Having said that, I submit to you that I think, I question, and I study. I do not require a college degree to do so and I can assure that I often exert little mental energy when having a verbal dialogue with many alumni who by collegiate proclamation, and by proxy, call themselves scholars. To whatever field of study I choose to devote my mental and physical energy, I consider myself an “ist,” as it were.
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Whitfield
4/7/2014 11:32:30 am
Scott
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Ge Ki
4/8/2014 06:13:44 am
Whitfield - You are missing the point. The point is that we don't have to be fooled into becoming interested in history. You seem to believe it's OK to tell a kid "Hey kid, did you know that Geronimo could fly?" because it would get the kid interested in Geronimo. It's fine to lie. However, a good teacher and the truth can be just as interesting. Besides, there are plenty of people out there who would simply believe that Geronimo could fly, and then spread it on to others, without bothering to study it. Pseudo-science harms our kids and our society.
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Al Barrs
4/12/2014 07:31:13 am
So, just what did your expect and prove by your attack of Scott Wolter? That your are superior to him? That your are some kind of expert investigator? What??? If you don't like Scott or for whatever reason don't watch or read his accounts... Who cares from where his education came from...the college of hard knocks is still the best teacher... So, what secret are you hiding about yourself?
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4/12/2014 07:36:08 am
Tell me, Al: Do you yell back at the news whenever they report something bad about someone you like? Sometimes a news story is just a news story. Were you outraged when Robert Irvine's resume was revealed to be a fake? Did you protest the TV station that broadcast the news?
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CG
11/4/2014 11:59:02 am
Jason,
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 07:41:13 am
Al Barrs - It makes no difference who says it - Scott Wolter lied. It doesn't matter if the person saying that is an expert investigator or a 10-year old child. Scott Wolter lied. There are plenty of good people who do great work without an official degree. But they don't lie about their qualifications. Wolter lied. If you think it's OK to lie about having a degree, then that shows what your priorities are.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/12/2014 08:09:33 am
Gi Ke (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 08:50:44 am
"Reverend" Phil, you established long ago that you're OK with lying, so your moral compass doesn't mean much. Besides, a cuppa coffee is an honorary degree to nobody but Wolter. Just curious, "Reverend," do you preach that the Bible's Joshua was a good guy? 'Cause he sure did slaughter a lot of innocents - children, babies, fetuses, mothers, you name it. Is that your moral compass?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/12/2014 10:31:50 am
No … I am NOT "okay with lying" … nor am I "okay" with misrepresenting the views and character of other persons ...
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 10:52:26 am
"Reverend" Phil - But you're OK with slaughter.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/12/2014 05:25:11 pm
Ki Ge (whoever you are) …
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 05:42:15 pm
"Reverend" Phil - Yep, I knew you were afraid to answer the question.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/12/2014 05:50:43 pm
Ge Ke (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 10:55:29 pm
"Reverend" Phil - Cracking ourselves up, are we? Guess you're not accustomed to answering questions about Joshua's murderous ways. You just do the one-way preachy-thing.
Will Phil
4/12/2014 10:13:23 am
Rev,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/12/2014 10:34:03 am
As a member of the biology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for now forty years, I do agree that the general public knowledge and impressions of "Science" are woefully poor ...
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Ge Ki
4/12/2014 06:52:53 pm
Lest "Reverend" Phil be mistaken for an actual scientist, it is important to note that being "a member of the biology section of the AAAS" requires nothing but paying the membership fee. Readers can see that by clicking through the form here: https://pubs.aaas.org/org_membership/new_member_setup.asp?p=2
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/13/2014 05:48:28 am
Ge Ke (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
4/13/2014 09:05:12 am
Science is an open enterprise that must accept rational criticism from all, including me. But in your world, Scott Wolter's ideas should not be criticized, 'cause he's a friend of yours.
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Bob Miller
4/12/2014 11:21:58 am
What I find depressing about America Unearthed and other similar shows, many of which appear on The History Channel, is that anyone would actually take these things seriously. This is a sad commentary on our educational level and the critical thinking skills of so many people. This show fits right in with the "monster" and the ancient alien shows, etc. The question is whether Scott Wolter is simply a bald-faced liar and scam artist or whether he actually believes this nonsense himself. I'm betting on the former. If that's the case, he's a low-down scumbag.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/12/2014 05:22:32 pm
Bob Miller --
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Ge Ki
4/12/2014 05:40:40 pm
"Reverend" Phil, unlike you, I am concerned not only with myself, but also with the others in our society being lied to by Wolter. So just changing the channel doesn't get it.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/12/2014 05:48:42 pm
Well …
Ge Ki
4/12/2014 06:46:01 pm
"reverend" Phil: Of course, you're veering off-topic and making bizarre statements about me now that your previous point has been obliterated and you're out of gas on that one. Anyone can scan this entire page and see that I've never had the slightest desire to review Wolter's lunacy before it goes public. But as we've seen all along, lying is fine with you.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/13/2014 10:38:08 am
Gi Ke (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
4/13/2014 01:23:40 pm
"Reverend" Phil - You wish. But Wolter's lying doesn't inspire any lightness in me. I have no intention of "lightening up" for that charlatan or for his supporters like you.
Scott Lund
4/13/2014 01:58:56 pm
I am speculating someone who feels more intelligent than the presenter submitted something to the show and was ignored....A woman scorned and all will never lighten up....
Ge Ki
4/13/2014 02:24:15 pm
Yes folks, Scott Lund's conclusions are every bit as evidence-based as Scott Wolter's. Believe me Scott, I have nothing that Wolter would be interested in. And if I did, I would publish it in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, as Wolter should attempt to do. No self-respecting scientist would break his discoveries on non-peer-reviewed media such as Wolter's TV show. Who wants to end up like Fleischmann & Pons?
Steve
8/30/2015 05:36:51 am
What kind of reverend will follow Wolters as he lied to his audience about Jesus? Check yourself, I doubt your a 'christian' if you do or your credtials are as phony as Wolters honorary degree.
Scott Lund
4/13/2014 02:27:26 pm
Bob Miller: What I find depressing about commentators of this and other similar shows, many of which appear on The History Channel, is that people are not creative enough to grasp the real possibilities and pontificate the negative to anyone that does actually take these things seriously. This is promoting a sad commentary on our future educational level and the creative thinking skills of so many people. This show fits right in with an accelerated progress of discovery. The question is whether Scott Wolter is simply a great presenter or whether he actually believes these connections of common sense himself that lead to and promote reasons to discover the truth.. I'm betting on both. If that's the case, the people who try to stop that, and the progress it could create, are not much more in my eyes, than low-down scumbags.
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Scott Lund
4/13/2014 02:31:11 pm
Bob Miller: What I find depressing about commentators of this and other similar shows, many of which appear on The History Channel, is that people are not creative enough to grasp the real possibilities and pontificate the negative to anyone that does actually take these things seriously. This is promoting a sad commentary on our future educational level and the creative thinking skills of so many people. This show fits right in with an accelerated progress of discovery. The question is whether Scott Wolter is simply a great presenter or whether he actually believes these connections of common sense himself that lead to and promote reasons to discover the truth.. I'm betting on both. If that's the case, the people who try to stop that, and the progress it could create, are not much more in my eyes, than low-down scumbags.
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Scott Lund
4/13/2014 02:42:43 pm
GE KI, of the sacred "Peer Reviewed" journals older than 8 years, but not older than 50 years, and not including math or chemistry, how many can be quoted as fact today? Keep the faith Ge Ki, and remember, Clovis first!
Ge Ki
4/14/2014 04:31:24 pm
Scott Lund: First, Will Phil addressed your comment below; see his reply to "Reverend" Phil.
will phil
4/13/2014 12:34:02 am
Rev,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/13/2014 05:52:21 am
Indeed, the vagaries of REAL history can be puzzling …
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will phil
4/13/2014 11:39:15 pm
Simple rev. I'll put it in terms you can believe, that aren't too complex. The Vikings obviously didn't find any big rocks to carve their land claims on. Hence, with no runic property deeds, they had to leave.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/14/2014 04:43:16 pm
Will Phil --
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Ge Ki
4/14/2014 04:54:33 pm
Translation of "Reverend" Phil's comment: Gee, Will Phil, can't you write something more in line with my attention span? I like bumper stickers. Will you buy me something?"
will phil
4/14/2014 08:05:58 pm
Rev,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/15/2014 10:20:37 am
Thanks AGAIN for clearing it all up and up and UP -- TWICE in a ROW … !!!
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Ge Ki
4/15/2014 10:38:59 am
"Reverend" Phil - Here's a question short enough for even you: Was the Bible's Joshua a good guy, or a bad guy? You remember, he's the guy who slaughtered children, babies, and fetuses in Jericho and elsewhere. Cuz God told him to.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/15/2014 10:42:08 am
Ge Ke (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
4/15/2014 05:26:37 pm
Because I want to know. When other Christians ask you if Joshua was a good guy or a bad guy, how do you answer them?
Ge Ki
4/15/2014 11:43:27 am
Translating again for "Reverend" Phil: "I can't answer the question, or else it's curtains for my delicate Biblical belief system, so I'll try to deflect it with the absolute best excuse for humor I can scrape together!"
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/15/2014 02:20:53 pm
As It is Written:
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/15/2014 02:43:43 pm
But …
Patrick Bisson
4/16/2014 10:03:46 am
Thanks for creating this blog Jason after watching the America Unearthed show on Isle Royale I was sick to my stomach... I live close by.
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Ron
4/19/2014 09:07:13 am
Mr. Gotsch-
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/19/2014 09:46:32 am
"rabid" … ??? (ummm, kitten … I'm not the one infected with "rabies" in these blogs …)
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Ge Ki
4/22/2014 12:58:14 pm
Ron, great point. As usual, and as shown many times on this page, "Reverend" Phil resorts to lame "humor" when unable to answer a question.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/22/2014 02:08:33 pm
Two hydrogen atoms had stopped off for a cold one on their way home from work …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
4/22/2014 05:24:33 pm
FABULOUS new set of jokes on "Late Show with Dave Letterman" tonight … but … I don't dare post them here, as they are STRICTLY Adults*ONLY ...
Scott Lund
4/22/2014 08:55:11 pm
Kitten, lol...Rev, I think he is one step away from Sugar Plum.
CPT Rick
4/29/2014 02:58:20 pm
I do believe Mr. Scott Wolters has a vast amount of technical knowledge and not just here say info. Instead of picking at his theories as imaginary in nature go and prove it yourself. Fact is fact and proof is proof I always say. I myself don't believe in the history text books about how we got here in the first place. So many inaccurate reports on our United States History in general. Historians make up stories in order to make things believable but where is the actual proof. Our Government keeps vast amounts of true historical data secret from the public. Look at the Grand Canyon per say. The Smithsonian Museum conducted a investigation in 1909 concerning a possibility of actual Egyptians living in or near the Grand Canyon in caves. They apparently found mummies and other artifacts but as usual they back paddled back in 1909 saying nothing was found even though evidence supported otherwise. Is that all myth as well? The government wont let any helicoptor fly in the area where a sopposive cave where all these artifacts lie waiting for us to analyze and share with the world. I guess they don't want the public to realize that our american history that has been written is all not true and there is more that needs to be said. Scott Wolters and others out in the real world are trying to get the message out but being stifled at every corner. Why ?
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Indiana Jones
9/22/2014 09:52:48 am
God Bless you CPT Rick, but you're another lost soul in trying to sort out what is fact and what is fiction. You don't see your own vacillating contradictions as you move from "I don't believe US History textbooks, but I do believe Egyptians were found in Grand Canyon caves". Oh boy. Well, I'm a real scientist, Anthropologist actually, and the starting point for all your beliefs and disbeliefs should start with the sources, how credible are they in the real scientific community, and have they been vetted by real scientific rigor and comprehensive investigation. Real science delves deep in evidence without passion, prejudice or preconceived conclusion. A good scientist just lets the evidence reveal what it reveals, and such evidence must be substantial enough to survive his or her own scientific ethics and the scrutiny of the scientific community. My advice to you is to first figure out what science, it's research methods, and it considers facts really are, and then base your conclusions on that. Then take it case by case, some hypotheses are vetted by good science, others are not. Once your good at it, then you can more easily separate out two and attach yourself to real fact-based theories. Things like Evolution, Plate Tectonics, and that the Maya culture actually came from the Maya area (not Egypt or aliens) are based in well-researched studies over many years with tons of supporting facts or evidence, critiqued and upheld by a large scientific community. Other conclusions, you'll see, are not. When you get good at this you'll dismiss most of your "conspiracy theories", like the government is hiding scientific discovery from us, and embrace practical, logical reasoning behind good science, separating out desire, belief, and imagination from well established facts. I Wish You Luck, Professor Jones
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5/18/2014 01:24:23 pm
The history everybody is looking for and trying to prove is spelled out at VoyageoftheThundergods.com
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Matthew J. Willis
6/13/2014 01:45:31 am
So......., did that chick ever get her nails done?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
7/4/2014 03:11:05 am
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Derek Buttery
7/22/2014 08:19:41 am
WOW!!
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Steve White
7/22/2014 04:16:02 pm
Hello Scott,
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Debbie
8/3/2014 11:00:57 am
I agree with sayitaintso. Scott is a handsome guy and I enjoy the shows. He IS a geologist after all, so give him a break!
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EP
8/12/2014 08:08:41 pm
I'll just leave this over here:
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Dani
8/14/2014 07:50:55 am
Scott is smiling as he totes all his plunder to the bank.
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Jay Bee
9/3/2014 06:44:12 pm
Wolters is an intellectual plagiarist and thief! All he does is take other scholar's ideas,theories and findings and attempts to take credit for them.
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Ann L
9/5/2014 09:21:45 am
Jason Colavito - Thanks for this web page. I once told my daughter to watch more documentaries like the Discovery Channel showed, instead of soaps and reality tv. Then she started telling me about strange things which were 'definitely true' because she'd seen it on a documentary with experts.
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John Ballas
10/19/2014 07:53:37 am
Good point Ann. It is sort of like what Russians have to do when they watch the News.
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Nivek Noyl
9/10/2014 11:31:21 am
It's tv people. We watch it for ENTERTAINMENT. If you take it seriously YOU are an idiot.
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Indiana Jones
9/22/2014 10:14:10 am
I ran across this website to find out more about Scott Wolter because a few of my students had questions from his show (which I have never seen), and according to much of what they passed on, it does appear to be either quasi-science or pseudo-science with a flare for the drama. This is quite common in recent years, as much about entertainment than anything else. The real science is often to detailed, dry, complex and holistic to grasp and therefore no hold the attention of most TV audiences. So I'm just responding here in general to much of the contraversy I skimmed through in this blog, many of which are souls in trying to sort out what is fact and what is fiction in programs like Scott Wolter's. Folks don't see their own vacillating contradictions as they move from "I don't believe US History textbooks, but I do believe Egyptians were found in Grand Canyon caves" (about 10 blogs back). Oh boy. Well, I'm a real scientist, Anthropologist actually, with real graduate degrees, and I'll tell you the starting point for all your beliefs and disbeliefs should start with the sources, how credible are they in the real scientific community, and have they been vetted by real scientific rigor (debate) and comprehensive investigation. Real science delves deep in evidence without passion, prejudice or preconceived conclusion. A good scientist just lets the evidence reveal what it reveals, and such evidence must be substantial enough (not 1 bone, 1 artifact) to survive his or her own scientific ethics and the scrutiny of the scientific community. My advice to you is to first figure out what is real science, it's research methods, and how it considers facts, and then base your conclusions on that. Then take it case by case, some hypotheses are vetted by good science, others are not. Once your good at it, then you can more easily separate out the two and attach yourself to real fact-based theories. Things like Evolution, Plate Tectonics, and that the Ancient Maya actually came from the Maya area (not Egypt or aliens) are all three based in well-researched studies over many years with tons of supporting facts or evidence, critiqued and upheld by a large scientific community. Other conclusions, you'll see, are not. When you get good at this you'll dismiss most of your "conspiracy theories", like "the government is hiding scientific discoveries from us", and embrace practical, logical reasoning behind good science; separating out desire, belief, and imagination from well established facts. Go for it, Professor Jones
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CG
11/4/2014 05:41:58 am
So that's my life long problem, too much curiosity and not enough degrees! Ok, Mr. Indiana try selling your approach to network TV. I think any thing that awakes curiosity is good. I believe (in most cases)the average, adult, person will not believe or quote what they have seen on TV as gospel without further investigation. We certainly don't want highly educated persons to believe in TV based information, that could really screw things up. I say we get to the bottom of this, call a Kardashian and see what they think.
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Mr. E
9/23/2014 10:47:43 am
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/scott-wolter-lashes-out-at-me-again-says-future-events-might-cause-him-to-sue-me
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Cathleen Anderson
9/28/2014 10:30:35 am
In the long run, what Scott Wolter did with this degree in a coffee cup isn't going to really matter. The fact that he is trying to rewrite history into something that clearly never happened will be what he is remembered for.
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John Ballas
10/19/2014 07:47:52 am
I'll bet his show have hurt absolutely nothing at all. As all science is looked at with opened minds. People say that man has never landed on the moon. And make claims that it is all a hoax. But did it hurt space exploration? Which one are you? What can you prove? What evidence can you provide about anything? Jason Colavito brings up these same very questions about Scott Wolter. And his degree. But I think Scott does bring to light some very interesting ideas. Degree or not. Somebody was here. And there is proof of this. I have seen with mine own eyes some of this evidence. Sorry to disappoint all of you.
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Joe Brunetteq
10/13/2014 01:35:25 pm
I have watched some episodes of America unearthed and Scott Wolter claims so many other people came to America long ago and all these places were visited and monuments were left yet he has never proved one damn thing. The show is the same garbage as the UFO and bigfoot shows.
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John Ballas
10/19/2014 07:36:23 am
Exactly.... This is the whole purpose of the show. Until somebody can prove that no others have been here. This is why we investigate this. But evidence does show that someone was here at some time before Columbus was. I would like for someone to find who these people where? After all, people are curious.
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Joe Brunette
11/8/2014 10:53:48 am
I think it was the native Americans. Actually Columbus was never here in the U.S.A., he landed in Hispaniola.
Andrew Blackburn
10/19/2014 07:12:03 am
Scott Wolter isn't proving anything on the show. He is simply introducing thought provoking ideas to the public so we will research and find things out on our own. His show is basically a quick history of what is being looked at, a few artifacts, a few locations, a basis of knowledge for what is being questioned, and it is up to us to research these ideas and make a hypothesis ourselves. That is my thought about the show anyway.
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Robert Goodyear
11/17/2014 11:42:39 am
Andrew,
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Dave
11/2/2014 08:14:56 am
Please stay on topic.
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Robert Goodyear
11/17/2014 11:30:28 am
Scott,
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Christine
11/17/2014 07:41:38 pm
Aw come on! Leave him alone. He's got a good gig and you are just jealous. He is charming, handsome, and keeps your attention. I love watching his show and what he says interests me incredibly. A degree is not what matters. It's what you know. And he knows plenty. Besides, I'd rather watch him than ANYof you. He makes the show. What matters is what the audience wants.
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Robert Goodyear
11/18/2014 05:01:01 am
Christine,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/18/2014 06:29:06 am
I would like to see the MMPIs of these most ardent Wolter-bashing zealots …
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Robert Goodyear
11/18/2014 06:40:17 am
All the "bashers," as you call us, have actual college degrees ... and use LOGIC.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/18/2014 01:54:07 pm
Okay, okay …
Robert Goodyear
11/23/2014 04:27:33 am
"Rev." Gotsch,
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/23/2014 08:19:10 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/23/2014 10:56:41 am
As I have written previously, the H2 "America Unearthed" TV shows have positive value in stimulating interest in and encouraging discussion of North American history and prehistory ...
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Robert Goodyear
11/18/2014 05:04:51 am
Christine and all other "believers," I have a family of greys living behind my neighbor's barn. They have created pigs out of chickens by manipulating their dna.
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Robert Goodyear
11/21/2014 11:11:04 am
For david, roth (who must not think much of himself, since he uses all lower case for his name)
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Robert Goodyear
11/22/2014 11:52:49 am
"Rev." Gotsch, In which "religion" were you ordained, or is that a title you gave yourself, as did Tsouaklos?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/23/2014 01:35:24 am
"Robert Goodyear" --
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Robert Goodyear
11/23/2014 04:15:44 am
Because your posts do NOT reflect ANY main stream religion.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/23/2014 07:55:52 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/23/2014 12:36:21 pm
Oh jeez "Reverend," are you back again? Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the very revered one, "Reverend" Phil. He's nothing more than a shill for Scott Wolter and thinks that everything Wolter does is fine, because he's a friend of Phil. But there is one question that I could never get the good "Reverend" to answer, and that is: "Do you teach kids that it's OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree?" If you search this page, you'll find that I've asked Phil this question many times, and he always skirts it. Note that this question does not accuse Wolter of lying. It's just a question about what we should or should not be teaching our kids. But the revered "Reverend" Phil can't bring himself to answer it. Three guesses why. Watch now as he does it again: OK Phil, do you teach kids that it's OK to lie about receiving an honorary degree?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/23/2014 02:35:10 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/23/2014 03:38:42 pm
And voila! "Reverend"Phil can't go near the question.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/23/2014 04:02:12 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/23/2014 05:33:31 pm
Why do I feel … like this is a *live* episode of "Portlandia" … ???
Ge Ki
11/23/2014 05:50:24 pm
Too bad that doesn't answer the question, "Reverend" Phil. Avoiding it, as usual.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 03:09:19 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
President Obama
11/23/2014 01:20:41 am
Anyone that thinks Scott Wolter actually commented on this blog is a moron. Anyone can comment on here and leave whatever name they want, obviously I am not President Obama. Think about it
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Robert Goodyear
11/24/2014 07:21:12 am
Terribly sorry, "Rev." Gotch.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 08:03:15 am
"Interim" Parish Ministry is a specialed calling in which a pastor is appointed by the bishop on a temporary basis in order to help the congregation prepare to call a long term pastor …
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Robert Goodyear
11/24/2014 09:00:44 am
I have no idea what a parish or a bishop is in your "religion."
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 09:29:10 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) …
yernightmare
12/20/2014 12:46:24 pm
You get your jollies harassing a Christian Pastor and making fun of him. Your not a man your a sick social misfit who thinks he is too mush better than anyone else and cannot ever give up the slightest bit your sick inflated ego to understand humility. Your a waist of human flesh. You have no value, no worth and should be squashed like the vermin you are. Oops maybe I'm not a really good Christian. Oh well I'll make the exception in your case jackhole.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 08:08:58 am
"specialized" calling
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Robert Goodyear
11/24/2014 10:22:50 am
Again, the most irreverent "Rev." Crotch fails to answer the questions, choosing to avert the attention from himself.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 10:31:33 am
Being rigorously trained and experienced, I don't much care for the term, "proof" (except in "whiskey," math and formal logic) …
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Robert Goodyear
11/24/2014 11:17:01 am
Also, there is no PROOF OR EVIDENCE that you are divinely inspired, except the word of others as hypocritical as you.
Robert Goodyear
11/24/2014 11:12:16 am
Fine, your Holiness, let's leave this up to the other Bloggers.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 11:56:51 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) …
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Robert Goodyear
11/24/2014 01:29:13 pm
Mister Gotsch (whoever you are)...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 02:04:13 pm
Mr. Goodyear (whoever you are) --
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Robert Goodyear
11/24/2014 02:23:47 pm
Master Gotsch (whatever you are)...
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/24/2014 02:35:38 pm
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
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Ge Ki
11/25/2014 03:02:42 am
"Reverend," since you won't answer my question about the proper way to raise children, let's try a softball question from your field of study. In the Bible, Joshua tells his people that God told him that they should kill every man, woman, child, baby, and fetus in Jericho, and take the city as their own. They carry out the unimaginable slaughter, and today your religion teaches that Joshua is a hero. Do you think it's OK to kill if a god tells you to do it?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 03:08:12 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/25/2014 03:29:13 am
Well, you "cherry pick" in your sermons, don't you? You don't review the entire bloody Bible every Sunday. Well then, just forget the Joshua story. Do you think it's OK to kill if a god tells you to do it? How would you advise one of your congregants?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 04:45:17 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/25/2014 05:01:52 am
So if one of your parishioners asked you, "Is it OK to kill if a god tells you to do it," what would you say?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 05:12:56 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/25/2014 05:49:37 am
Why do religious figureheads try to denigrate those who question their claims? You name-call me a "Grand Inquisitor," but I am just a student of nature who does not understand how your religion makes sense to you. So yes, I ask questions. Excuse the hell out of me. Your inability to answer questions about your own religion demonstrates that you have not quite thought things through. Perhaps you were discouraged from asking questions by a name-calling minister. I, OTOH, am happy to answer any questions about my beliefs. I am not ashamed of them. I am not the one who honors murderers and those who (supposedly) direct them. You claimed that you prefer "genuine honest open serious conversation." That doesn't seem to be true either.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 07:56:35 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) …
Ge Ki
11/25/2014 08:43:53 am
"We"? I'm the only one "reaching." I ask the questions, and you run from them.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 08:51:53 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 08:59:16 am
But, regarding "killing" … It does happen … "self defense," or by accidental negligence … or for food … or "in a rit of fealous jage" …
Ge Ki
11/25/2014 12:21:49 pm
"Seriously dude" - how hip. I ask the question to find out how you teach your flock.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 12:30:34 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/25/2014 03:56:35 pm
“Reverend” I feel very sorry for your flock. You have demonstrated an utter inability to answer questions about your belief system.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 11:12:17 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 11:15:47 pm
But again … Seriously …
Ge Ki
11/26/2014 11:11:35 am
“Reverend,” I don’t blame you for lashing out. I’d be pissed too, if I’d just discovered that my belief system condones the murder of innocent children. So much for joy, peace, and love.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/26/2014 12:46:20 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) …
Ge Ki
11/26/2014 03:59:32 pm
What's really funny is that you aren't obeying voices in your head. You're obeying voices in someone else's head from thousands of years ago. Can I get an LOL on that?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/26/2014 05:57:11 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/27/2014 02:18:11 am
Now "Reverend," don't be so hard on yourself.
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Robert Goodyear
11/25/2014 02:29:25 am
Gotsch,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 02:58:04 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
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Robert Goodyear
11/25/2014 04:37:03 am
Ge Ki, Go get him, Pal.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 04:48:56 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
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Robert Goodyear
11/25/2014 04:46:11 am
Your Holiness Gotsch (WHATEVER YOU CLAIM TO BE)
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 05:05:20 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) …
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Robert Goodyear
11/25/2014 06:12:56 am
CROTCH (whatever you CLAIM to be)
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/25/2014 08:44:45 am
LOL …
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/26/2014 12:52:34 pm
Okay … The resident New*Atheists have concluded their efforts to turn this blog spot into a missionary pulpit for their faith claims …
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Ge Ki
11/26/2014 04:17:49 pm
"Reverend," as you are unable to condemn the slaughter of innocent children (it's true folks - see our discussion above), your vouching for Wolter as being "essentially honest" - already a pretty weak endorsement - is essentially worthless.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/26/2014 05:59:18 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) …
Ge Ki
11/27/2014 02:28:12 am
"Reverend" - Then how fortunate that your lack of a moral foundation is demonstrated by plenty of empirical evidence. Our discussion above recorded, on numerous occasions, your unwillingness to condemn the slaughter of innocent children. It is no wonder that you excuse Wolter's lie about his "degree" on account of he's your buddy.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 02:39:12 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 02:59:55 am
*whatever*
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Ge Ki
11/27/2014 03:07:18 am
He sure did clear it up. He erased any doubt that he's either lying or nuts. "Well a few members of the faculty gave me a cup of coffee and told me it was an honorary degree." Good enough for you, anyway. But then, slaughtering innocent children is OK with you too.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 03:25:57 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
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Ge Ki
11/27/2014 05:22:46 am
"Reverend," what you need to understand is that I have not dictated to others what they should believe on any of those things you've listed. You, on the other hand, continually dictate to others that they should believe the Bible, which portrays the slaughter of innocent children in Jericho as a good thing. If I went around telling people that Nazi death camps were good, I would expect to be questioned about it. And if I could not answer those questions, I would change my mind to a more rational position that I could defend. Alas, you are unable to either defend your beliefs or change them, so you're kind of stuck. But you'll still preach your indefensible beliefs, because you're not really concerned with truth.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 05:41:56 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 05:55:53 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
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Ge Ki
11/27/2014 07:29:04 am
Wow, silly AND childish! Your flock hit the jackpot, "Reverend"!
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 07:34:35 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/27/2014 08:06:52 am
You think questions about slaughtering children in the Bible are silly.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 08:24:24 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/27/2014 09:33:10 am
"Reverend" - If I had gotten my beliefs from "Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, etc." I would be happy to give them credit. They are exceptionally bright and their beliefs well-reasoned. But I arrived at my own beliefs well before I ever heard of them. I actually figured things out myself. But thanks for the complement.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 10:23:19 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/27/2014 10:31:48 am
"Reverend" - Great! So what parts don't make sense to you?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 10:43:32 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/27/2014 11:08:22 am
"Reverend" - That's a bit unfocused. Got anything specific that doesn't make sense?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 02:17:21 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/27/2014 03:36:27 pm
"Reverend" - Your saying it doesn't make it so. Can you illustrate your criticism with even a single example?
Ge Ki
11/28/2014 03:44:21 pm
Nothing? Well then, it's great to know that atheism makes perfect sense to you. To sum up then, you are unable to make sense of your beliefs, and you are unable to find anything unreasonable in mine. Welcome, fellow atheist!
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 02:57:47 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/29/2014 11:05:15 am
"Reverend"- Making sense of creationism is not the same as creationism making sense.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 11:14:00 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/29/2014 11:22:04 am
What we were discussing was our own opinions, not those of other people. What about atheism doesn't makes sense to you?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 11:37:00 am
"Ge Ki" --
Ge Ki
11/29/2014 12:51:47 pm
Then you do not understand atheism. "Rigidly rationalistic" - by which I assume you mean "rigidly rational" - Yes, atheism is definitely that. Everything I believe has a rational basis. Anything wrong with that? "Dogmatic" - not at all. That is the opposite of rational. Dogma requires that something be accepted because others accept it. Dogma is belief based on faith in what someone else says. That is entirely what your religion is based upon. There are dogmas in the rational world as well, but these are regularly overturned. Those that remain, such as Newton's laws of motion, are solid. And even Newton's laws had to be modified when Einstein came along. So we have no sacred dogmas. You do. For example, you must believe in one and only one god. You must ignore the possibility that there are other gods out there that just haven't shown up in our tiny place in the universe. Even I acknowledge that possibility, miniscule as it is. But you are forbidden from doing so. Likewise, you are required to ignore the Bible's flaws for the sake of perpetuating the dogma of the Bible's divine perfection. Your religion is rife with dogma, and unlike mine, your dogmas are absolute and immutable, no matter how strong the evidence against them.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 01:05:12 pm
"Ge Ki" --
Ge Ki
11/29/2014 03:37:21 pm
1) Re: Your atheist friend, who "is a very normal integrated person who has feelings as well as thoughts and ideas": Then you seem to agree that atheism fulfills your preference for "a world-view which is inclusive, open-minded, ruled not exclusively by cold logic, but also including feeling and ambiguity."
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 03:46:09 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/30/2014 07:36:27 am
Again, one huge difference between you and me is the way we respond to rational arguments and questions. You view them as hostile and condescending, and you try to snuff them out so they don't make you think too hard about church dogma. I welcome them, because if there is a flaw in my beliefs, I want to know about it so I can change my beliefs accordingly. If my belief system required me to justify slaughtering innocent children, you can bet I would change it. But you can't change yours; dogma rules. Infanticide's great when a god commands it!
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/30/2014 11:38:54 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
11/30/2014 12:36:21 pm
I said "arguments and questions."
Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/30/2014 01:06:24 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
12/2/2014 02:11:29 pm
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/2/2014 02:22:15 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
12/2/2014 02:30:32 pm
Rather than attacking me, just answer the question.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/2/2014 02:51:50 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
12/2/2014 03:41:12 pm
This from a guy who thinks Judges 1:27ff somehow erases or justifies Joshua's slaughter of innocent children in Jericho.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/2/2014 03:57:53 pm
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
12/2/2014 04:32:37 pm
Translation: You can't explain why you worship a god who ordered innocent children slaughtered in Jericho. And so soon after commanding "Thou shalt not kill." Reckon there should be a little asterisk there. Why don't you pretend that I'm an uneducated member of your flock, and help me to understand? I've actually studied the history of the texts and traditions, from Bronze Age archaeology, etc., quite a bit. Perhaps you can tell me what I'm missing?
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/3/2014 12:09:48 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
12/3/2014 05:41:55 am
"Reverend" - You view questions and arguments as hostile, and you respond quite badly to them. I, OTOH, welcome them. Go ahead - ask me anything about my beliefs. I'm not in fear of being challenged. You'll find that my beliefs are all consistent with each other. For example, I don't say that killing is bad one minute, and then turn around the next minute and say that it's glorious to kill innocent children. I suppose that kind of belief system would make me a bit prickly too, so I sympathize with you. Plus you have to get up in front of a crowd every Sunday and tell them to believe it. Uggh, that must be hell, misleading all those people. I sure couldn't do it.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/3/2014 06:51:00 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
12/3/2014 07:27:27 am
1) I am genuinely interested in how you could believe as you do. Unfortunately, you view questions and argument as hostile. Thus, you have never really tested your beliefs and are afraid to do so here. I, OTOH, welcome your questions, no matter how hostile. Go ahead, ask me anything about my beliefs.
Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/3/2014 09:12:43 am
"Ge Ki" (whoever you are) --
Ge Ki
12/3/2014 10:07:05 am
"Reverend" - How much studying did you have to do before you realized it was OK to slaughter innocent children if a god commanded you to do it?
Robert Goodyear
11/27/2014 09:13:50 am
Jesus Grotsch,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 10:25:50 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
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Robert Goodyear
11/27/2014 11:19:55 am
Gotsch (whatever you CLAIM to be ... certainly NOT a cleric)
Robert Goodyear
12/3/2014 05:22:41 am
Rev. Gotsch,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 10:39:00 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) …
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Robert Goodyear
11/27/2014 12:56:15 pm
"Rev." Gotsch,
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Robert Goodyear
11/27/2014 01:05:01 pm
whether these substances are good or bad the blood distributes them to all cells. So, air that enters the body creates changes within that body, for good or bad depending upon the source of the air that is breathed in. Think about it, if God breathed into a clay man, that already had touches of God within the cells, and the blood picked up that breath and carried it throughout the body, how could it be the same as a body that was never touched or breathed into by God? Obviously, there has to be differences between the man that was spoken into existence and the formed man, the formed man simply has more particles in him that came from God, so he would be more like God. Genesis 2:8 "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed." This formed man was not placed on earth to subdue it. He was placed in a special garden planted by God, Himself. Genesis 2:15 "And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." The purpose of this man was to keep and dress this special garden that God planted. In Genesis 1, man and woman was to replenish the entire earth. This man was to keep a garden.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 02:21:14 pm
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
Robert Goodyear
11/27/2014 01:07:08 pm
PARDON ME. We are all DESCENDANTS of Adam and Eve.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/27/2014 02:30:54 pm
But … again …
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Robert Goodyear
11/27/2014 03:06:03 pm
"Rev." Gotsch,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/28/2014 11:03:57 am
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
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Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 11:54:58 am
CROTCH BREATH ... and you DO know what that means.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/28/2014 12:39:03 pm
"Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are) --
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Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 01:09:05 pm
Legion
Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 12:57:20 pm
My name is Robert Goodyear.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/28/2014 01:26:32 pm
"Legion"… I command you in The Name of the Lord Jesus of Nazareth -- LEAVE him … !!!
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Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 01:45:27 pm
Get thee behind me, GOTSCH.
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Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 01:51:03 pm
If you think you are up to a battle of scriptures, BRING IT ON, ASSHOLE.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/28/2014 02:09:09 pm
LOL …
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Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 02:21:55 pm
The stench of your hypocrisy shall follow you all the days of your life, and you shall dwell in the depths of hell forever and ever.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/28/2014 02:39:39 pm
A spiritual-Bibllcal note for interested "lurkers" …
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Robert Goodyear
11/28/2014 02:59:21 pm
Is that the best you can come at me with?
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/28/2014 03:05:46 pm
"Those who say, "I love God,' and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen … "
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 03:01:58 am
So …
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Robert Goodyear
11/29/2014 03:13:00 am
I shall continue to "trash" Wolter, as I will continue to trash your holiness.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 03:21:12 am
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls …
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Robert Goodyear
11/29/2014 04:25:59 am
Pister Gotsch,
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Robert Goodyear
11/29/2014 03:29:24 am
Very, Especially when you refuse to answer the basic questions.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 04:54:16 am
One wonders …
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Robert Goodyear
11/29/2014 07:16:59 am
Poster Gotsch,
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Robert Goodyear
12/2/2014 06:57:09 am
Gotsch,
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
11/29/2014 07:35:11 am
One last word directly to "Robert Goodyear" (whoever you are): (even though this will not please your several "daimons") …
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Robert Goodyear
11/29/2014 12:28:33 pm
I SHALL RETURN ... in my own time.
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Robert Goodyear
11/30/2014 02:38:39 am
How big is a:legion?" How many of your enemies are In me?
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H2 Television Network
12/3/2014 06:26:33 am
I find it sad that you chose to belittle people who ask perfectly valid questions.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/3/2014 07:29:37 am
"H2 Television Network" --
H2 Television Network
12/3/2014 10:01:21 am
Mr. Wolters program on our Network is STRICTLY for entertainment purposes. Mr. Wolter approached us regarding a series HE proposed regarding the possibility of finding ancient remains in America. He offered no proof at that time that the government or anyone else was "hiding" the supposed artifacts.
Robert Goodyear
11/30/2014 04:27:31 pm
Awwwwww... Pastor.
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KDDid
12/1/2014 01:09:07 pm
who cares...great show.
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/2/2014 09:27:00 am
"KDDid" (I love your moniker) …
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Robert Goodyear
12/3/2014 01:43:26 am
Oh ! Now I see how it's supposed to work.
Robert Goodyear
12/3/2014 10:31:00 am
Ge Ki,
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Ge Ki
12/3/2014 04:11:30 pm
Robert - I'll leave that to you. There is no more black-and-white issue than slaughtering children, and I'm staying with it.
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Robert Goodyear
12/4/2014 03:16:15 am
Ge Ki
Robert Goodyear
12/8/2014 09:16:05 am
Geekie (whatever you THINK you are)
Robert Goodyear
12/9/2014 07:26:32 am
logicalGEEK,
Ge Ki
12/4/2014 03:53:01 am
Robert - If you think you can do better at getting the "Reverend" to explain his bizarre beliefs, go right ahead. Doesn't look like you've had much success so far, so you'll forgive me if I don't take your advice. And FYI, I have raised many other issues in the many exchanges with the "Reverend" that I've had over the course of the past year or so, which you can find simply by doing a search for my name.
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Robert Goodyear
12/4/2014 07:54:23 am
Ge Ki,
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Robert Goodyear
12/4/2014 08:29:15 am
Ge Ki,
Robert Goodyear
12/13/2014 06:35:04 am
logicalGEEK,
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Justin Little
12/6/2014 09:21:02 pm
Jason your beginning of this is completely upsurd. You probably have never been in the field or left your computer chair and that must ruffle your tail feathers that someone has been given a opportunity like Mr. Wolter has been given and proven he's knowledgeable. Quit crying Jason you'll be ok.
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Robert Goodyear
12/7/2014 02:56:45 am
Justin,
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justin
12/8/2014 05:54:23 am
I appreciate whoever this Robert kept my comments hidden I must of hit a soft spot for him or a point he knows is true but would make him look stupid. Thanks Robert douche!!!!
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Robert Goodyear
12/8/2014 06:43:12 am
Damn right you hit on a sift spot I know is true.
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justin
12/8/2014 07:05:08 am
Robert I want to greatly apologize that was not meant towards you what so ever my hands and mind type so fast because of this blogger stupid comments about Scott. That was directed towards the Jason idiot that started this site. Once again I truly apologize. Jason I hope you read this.
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12/13/2014 01:57:21 pm
Wow you all are real haters and jealous of Scott's success. What has any of your achieved lately lol? When people talk about you whether good or bad...it is GREAT Publicity!
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Fred L. Riggleman
12/13/2014 02:25:34 pm
To those attacking Scott. Why would you be so skeptical of this man when the man currently in the White House can't produce an official birth certificate, an records of a law degree, no friends who knew him in school, no birth certificates for his children, any pictures of he and his wife earlier in life. If there is anyone perpetrating a hoax on America it is the man in the White House. I have so little respect for him I won't speak his name. He didn't fool me when he ran for the office the first time nor the second. Put all your energy it work and find out how this illegal alien got into this country and with whose help. He didn't do it on his own.
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Robert Goodyear
12/14/2014 02:51:41 am
Wrigleman,
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Robert Goodyear
12/14/2014 02:58:03 am
Wigglewoman,
Robert Goodyear
12/16/2014 01:18:39 pm
As I have said before, I took a geology course in my second year of Community College ... therefore, I am a Geologist.
Harold
1/10/2015 08:10:29 pm
Mr. Goodyear,
riggleman cant win
1/5/2015 10:49:13 am
way to fall for the extreme far right propaganda buddy, only lunatics believe that crap you are pushing out, and it must be hard to do, or maybe easy if you've been force fed lies up your hershey squirter for years, yeeeehaww hillbilly
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Jimmy
12/13/2014 03:03:08 pm
zzzzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzzzzzzz.........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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SteveG
12/13/2014 10:19:11 pm
Jason I think the way your going on about Scott says more about you as a person than it does anything else. So sad!
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Rev. Phil Gotsch
12/15/2014 01:15:20 pm
(Maybe its something that happens as a result of reading way too much H. P. Lovecraft … ??? *shudder* )
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Robert Goodyear
12/16/2014 01:23:09 am
(Maybe IT'S something that happens as a result of reading too much Divinity crap ... ??? *barf*)
Robert Goodyear
12/16/2014 01:25:09 pm
Gotsch,
Revereend Doctor Dan
12/20/2014 01:04:21 pm
Just stop talking to this guy! Your wasting too much space and time talking to a worm. Move on.
Bad Reverend
12/20/2014 01:01:45 pm
After reading your post I think you should have your scrotum removed and shoved down your throat. Then your head removed and shoved up your ass. Then the remnants dumped in the desert.
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Robert Goodyear
12/21/2014 05:48:42 am
Hey Mr. Grammar School drop-out Bad Reverend,
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Harold
1/10/2015 08:41:14 pm
Mr. Goodyear,
Chris
12/26/2014 06:38:53 pm
To ALL of you Americans who feel its your duty to attack Scott Wolter, why dont you request the "Pedophile House" to declare war on him and blow up his house. Your a bunch of pathetic pricks, no wonder America is hated, if you want to know why we, the people of the world hate you, read all the comments of this pathetic website.
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Only Me
12/30/2014 07:11:16 am
Hoo boy, look out guys, we got a badass here!
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Robert Goodyear
12/30/2014 02:37:30 pm
I think Chris is pissed because his mother dropped a " t " from his first name. Everyone here knows that he thinks he's Christ.
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God
12/30/2014 02:39:28 pm
Satan
12/30/2014 02:42:46 pm
marcus AIR-ALIAS
1/5/2015 10:46:12 am
hey chris, sorry here in america, we care about what is broadcast to our children on a network named the history channel. we care that people are being taught the wrong things, we care that this guy is bogus. I guess in your country its ok to talk out your ass like scott wolter does. That attitude of yours and belief that it's ok to teach false things is probably why your country sucks, and why you'll be led astray by a dctator one day. BUT I MEAN IT DOESNT MATTER DOES IT HUH CHRIS, INFORMATION HAS NO POWER RIGHT CHRIS, I MEAN WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TEACHING WRONG FACTS AND BELIEFS ABOUT ANYTHING, hmmmmmmmm hitler ring a bell, damn i thought most americans were stupid, but you chris, arent even smart enough to contend with the dumbest americans.
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Entertained
1/4/2015 01:59:40 am
Wow. I watched "Unearthed" last night for the first time. I found it well done and quite entertaining. This blog, not so much.
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r
1/4/2015 08:02:10 am
Intertwined
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EP
1/4/2015 10:54:03 am
Hey Chris, I don't know whether any "Pedophile House" would attack Scott Wolter. Unless Frank Joseph gets really mad at Scott Wolter for using his child murder fantasies on America Unearthed without giving Joseph any credit...
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Alex Mack
1/6/2015 09:15:39 am
Scott,
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Robert Goodyear
1/6/2015 12:25:58 pm
Alex,
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Knower of all thngs
1/8/2015 01:57:08 am
Anyone who believes Scott Wolter, Giorgio Tsoukals, Bobo or anyone else at H2, DESCENDED from a worm.
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asgunnell
1/10/2015 11:00:53 am
The comments on this blog are very entertaining. The blog post - not so much. The fact that you've got a reverend trolling the comment section and sounding a little like pee wee herman makes it all worth the read.
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Jack Reid
1/10/2015 02:42:10 pm
I think someone should start a campaign asking the "HISTORY" channel to change its name to "HYSTERY" Channel.
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Jester
1/13/2015 04:07:44 pm
Asinine blog for asinine show. Full of fake geologists, reverends, intellectuals, and genuine obama voters. Here, you are all equally worthless, and my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who don't pack the gear to serve in my beloved corps. That's all of you!
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Joe
1/18/2015 03:38:24 pm
I want to know if he as no credentials, then how could he have worked at the Pentagon after 9/11? I mean the government doesn't just hire anybody especially at a place like the Pentagon. Besides, he's a forensic geologist, in no way does that sound like he's an archaeologist, so calling him one then saying he's lying about being one just sounds stupid.
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Douglas J. Lawson
1/18/2015 10:40:17 pm
I would like to chime in because I feel compelled to give Scott F. Wolter some KUDOS! If you do not like Scott F. Wolter or the H2 channel, then, do not watch it. If you look carefully, you should be able to find some mindless reality television that you all love so dearly. As for me, I tend to welcome all sources of intelligent conversation, and perhaps make my OWN decision as to what I believe and what I do not believe. I think this man is great! I am even planning a trip to NYC to view these Obelisks that I had no idea that they even existed! This guy has introduced me to all sorts of artifacts that were never 'taught' to me in public schools. So for that, I say KUDOS Mr. Scott F. Wolter! I am a BIG FAN! I am looking around SE Michigan (where I live) to see if we can get you to come here. I heard there was ruins under Lake Michigan that may produce something exciting. Please get that cool submarine thing and get down there!! HAHA
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Donald Dow
1/20/2015 01:09:44 pm
I'm a fan of Scott's show (fan of the show).. If you look at the sheer size of the American continents in comparison to the world overall and the fact that people have been sailing long distances for thousands of years... wouldn't it only make sense that someone other than Native Americans have set foot on the North American continent long before documented?.. Or does that seem way too logical?
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Allen
1/24/2015 01:16:58 pm
(Wow! This a really long thread.)
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Jack Meove
1/24/2015 06:43:28 pm
Hi Jason, Hey!, I had a thought.... I want to ask a simple question to everyone here!
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Jack Meove
1/24/2015 06:49:17 pm
more by the city to generate revenue? This is how you and others like you think! Once my driver license expires I all the sudden lose my ability to drive because I FORGOT?
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He who is HE
1/24/2015 07:27:23 pm
Religion, uuhhgg, what a terrible invention of Man. All any of you do and Im mean ALL OF YOU HUMAN'S.... ARE UTTER IDIOTS WHEN IT COMES TO RELIGION. THIS WORD SHOULD NOT EXIST! NONE OF YOU, ANY OF US UNDERSTAND IT. Interpretations? G*D breathed man. This means his spirit, G*D formed man, this means the physical body. Really?
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joan gross
1/26/2015 08:59:56 am
when I was in the 5th grade,1969, our history book called our state (SD) was required reading. In that book we learned that the Vikings, or Norse had left evidence of their presence near Pierre , SD long before the arrival of Columbus. We were all proud that we knew that fact,. But after the Moon landing and LBJ,s administration all the books we studied disappeared. I found later on that books my father studied as a child had disappeared. Much later on I found out that only a small group of people OKs what the future generations are allowed to learn as fact and rules. We have the internet now but how do we filter the baloney from fact. We have been fed baloney so long that it is impossible to know what is true or false. You can only believe half of what you hear and nothing that you see. It is an old adage,but true. And unfortunately at the very bottom people can be lying sacks of you know what in order to be in charge and make the most money.. It only takes a few moments for any information to be distorted. We can not control that. Too bad not all of us were born with bullshit detectors.Most of us , including me get snowed so easily.
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Kristoff
1/29/2015 06:39:48 am
Hello
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1/30/2015 08:40:53 am
I cant comment about Scotts Honorary Degree, but I can say, that a BS in Geology is pretty handy thing. My wifes family is over flowing with PhDs... I only have a modest BS in Geology, but that little sheepskin has taken me all over the place and given me a great career. I also make more money than the PhDs in the family, go on more adventures, have more freedom, publish more papers (industry stuff, non-peer reviewed) and get to do more seminars and lectures than all of them. My point? Its not the degree but how you use it. Education doesn't stop once your university classes end.
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1/31/2015 02:16:28 pm
Many areas in the annals of history are full of information that originates from exaggerated speculation; and, are very limited in true revelation. As an example of this problem see how my explanation of the Great Flood: www.universal-flood.net was revealed. JJS
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1/31/2015 04:42:12 pm
Really, why do you care if he has a BS or MS or stands on his head on alternate Tuesdays for a burger today. It is what he says and does and points out that has some interest, at least, rather than the endless intellectualization your generations are so obviously lost in believing your self to know, What? What are you able to actually prove you know as I would really like to know what it is you are so proud of knowing. Really!
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George
1/31/2015 06:23:07 pm
I think that whole "M" thing is actually a W and stands for Wolter! It represents the person of the Trinity-Father, Son, and Holy Wolter. Further proof would be of the fact that if you put your two middle fingers as one you would then have three fingers in homage of that trilogy. As for the number thirteen it is an interesting note that if Wolter was spelled using an A there are thirteen letters between A and O!! Come on people!!! Can't you see your nose on your face???!! Another thing-wasn't it absolutely shocking to see a replica of the Statue of Liberty in the country it was designed and built in? I was so shocked that I almost scat myself and I know that would have had a hooked X for sure cause I was sitting down!
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chris
2/1/2015 04:59:37 am
I like the idea that someone like Scott questions the establishment’s histories. (Which by in larger are fiction) everything is an interpretation of the facts. And those who use fictitious religion to force fictitious doctrine - based on writings of men using the words “religion” and “faith” as truth, they proclaim. Even though our history was type-set and printed on paper, it’s not proof of the truth! Scott is asking only to question what we have been told is our history. I believe the world is asking the same questions of their governments and scientists. There a saying: “Question everything, Learn something, Answer nothing (Answer nothing I believe means “Keep your options open”)
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Adolph jackson pough
2/1/2015 06:01:14 am
I enjoy Scott's show- most of it is BS but some is factual as I have read about it before in books etc. The hooked X thing, and it's meaning I find rather far-fetched and meaningless. It probably is a signiture of sorts or a code but the reasons given by Scott for it are illusive. As a person who has Saint Clair, as well as other known Knights Templar members in family history, I am intrigued by all this. There certainly is something to it- just what it is may never be proven to everyone's satisfaction. It does make wonderful bedtime stories though!. I also enjoy Robin Hood and "the Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean"
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Edward Lopez
2/9/2015 02:02:07 pm
Chris: Balderdash!
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nyceddie
3/1/2015 04:38:02 pm
The illusion is that Scott seems to question establishment's histories. But if one is intelligent as I am and an atheist without a belief system, one can readily see that his questioning is a sham for one cannot question outside sources until one questions inner sources. Logic and common sense tells one that there cannot be a god, any god, and a son of a god. That all such tales were created by man to control weak-minded ones Scott is one such weak-minded person because he should first question his religious beliefs and realized that religious beliefs exist only in the minds of those who have been mentally conditioned. It doesn't matter what Scott questions when it's attached to his religious beliefs. To hear him mention Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the other mythical creations that to him, according to the way he expresses himself constantly, were real people even though he knows that there is no historical evidence for their reality. He has no right to question anything as long as he is a religious slave.
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George Demplerod
2/1/2015 05:52:24 am
Dear Scott On a show you did- you examined the realization that people of the Minoan Civilization in the Mediterranean sailed regularly to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to mine Copper Ore? I have a problem with that. Seems to me they would be left standing in their boats looking up at Niagara Falls asking how do we get around this thing? Not to mention sailing against the terrific current of the Niagara River above through the lakes. "hint" there were NO ship canals or LOCKS back then !?
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Dave
2/1/2015 01:36:02 pm
P. T. Barnum was right!
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VVV
2/3/2015 03:05:09 am
I've seen all of the Unearthed episodes. I watch it for the entertainment value and because I have a great interest in alternative science and ideas that challenge dogma. Having said that, 80% of what is presented on the show is laughable and SW comes across as an arrogant blowhard, but there is an underlying message which is valid; that mainstream science will not explore or entertain the possibility of many of the subjects brought up on the show. As an example, I have a question to the sceptics and deniers on this blog: is it plausible that the Templars made their way to North America? i am not asking is it a fact, only is it plausible? Yes or No?
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Mike MB
2/3/2015 09:51:47 pm
I don't watch much TV, but lately I have been turning on net flix and letting it run while I work all night into the early AM everyday. well I ran out of things I liked - so I ran all those again and again, over a few moths. got so boring I started running documentaries and all the alien stuff and so on. LOL
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karl@btinternet.com
2/4/2015 10:02:04 pm
not sure if scott wolter has a masters degree im interested in his show because it highlights anomalies that never get mentioned in main stream books about history. Most archeological digs are funded by private interests who have strict clauses not to reveal what they have found so out of the ordinary finds never come to light especially if the Smithsonian institute has anything to do with it. There are thousands of newspaper articles dating from pre civil war to early 1900s about skeletons over 8 feet in height being found all over America and actually being put on show proving a race before native americans.
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Mike MB
2/7/2015 02:35:46 am
Referred to in Genesis as Nephilim. Seems odd that people claim to find these things and then they disappear. Doesn't make any sense to me, if they are real then what is it going to hurt to show them? Are people going to go instantly mad and kill themselves? No, and if some did, well, maybe that's the way it;s supposed to be.
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2/5/2015 02:24:42 pm
Many of the statements here are not from archaeologists or other trained scientists. There are juvenile comments and accusations. Those did not come from academics. Even the structure of the wording is all wrong.
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Michael Bahr
2/9/2015 07:12:56 am
Scott, I love the Show and thank you for digesting and researching the possible hidden truth! History is written by the winners and it is clear we have been fed a bunch of B.S. As for the critics, it seems they have numerous issues and should be looking at their mirrored reflections!
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patrica edward
2/10/2015 01:57:05 pm
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Mike MB
2/11/2015 08:27:27 am
Wow! You see that post above? What an incredible post! totally amazes me how stupid some people are and on so many levels.
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Paolo
2/16/2015 07:20:11 am
America Unearthed is no different than shows where they hunt for Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti, Nessie, or other "monsters" or aliens or ghosts. They string you along with suspenseful music, blurry pictures, and whatever. However they all end the same...inconclusively. No monster scat, no bones, no lairs. The monsters were there yesterday but not today when the crew shows up....and the hair always belongs to a bear of a dog! If you're going to watch these shows then realize your curiosity may be brought to a fever pitch but beware the let down at the end.
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Randy
2/25/2015 02:10:03 pm
It takes a lot of bravado to go against the grain of conventional thinking. Always has, always will, hang in there Scott!
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Mike MB
3/1/2015 07:58:15 pm
Incredible. , as far as a show goes, The Man is a Liar. Bravado does not mean LIAR, the guys a freaking Liar. if you lie about who you are for anything. you just shot your credibility to hell. seriously.
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Darin H.
3/4/2015 07:17:39 pm
Mr. Wolter,
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cerda
3/5/2015 06:40:12 am
Scott, Your show is interesting but I have one major issue with some of your research. It certainly would change history if we found out that people from other lands were in the Americas long before Columbus. It so happens that extensive genetic origin research has been conducted by many who are qualified to examine genetic evidence. The particular gene pool I refer to is the Native American Indians. If you perform a Google search on Dr. Thomas Murphy ( see this site: http://mit.irr.org/dna-vs-book-of-mormon-review ) and other well known PhD Genetics scientists, you will find out that 100% (not 99.9% or some fraction, but 100.0000000%) of ALL human bones/remains found in North, Central, or South America dating back to pre-columbian times, or prior to 1492, are from one origin. Those 100.0000000% are ALL with an originating gene pool from Northeastern Asia or near Mongolia. Thousands of pre-columbian remains have been discovered and DNA testing conducted to determine there is no doubt that only Native American Indians populated the Americas prior to the European and African influence that started around 1492. Thousands of living Native American Indians have submitted to DNA testing as well only to find that 99.4% are from the originating gene pool of Northeastern Asia near Mongolia. The other .6% comes from European and African influence after 1492. This may cause many in the Mormon community some heartburn as their belief based on the B of M is that the Indians or Lamanites are of the seed of Abraham and are Hebrew or Jewish in genetic descent or origin. The facts proof completely otherwise since Mongolia is not even close to Israel. In all of your shows, I have watched them all, you could have attempted to find human remains, dig them up, and have the genetic material extracted from existing bone marrow, which preserves for thousands of years, and see if any of them are able to be analyzed as being from a different gene pool, other than Northeastern Asia or Mongolia. I believe what Thomas Murphy and others proved crosses over to proving that there were no other gene pool influences into the North, Central, or South Americas until 1492. This is real science based on the human genome project completion earlier in this century and the ability to identify the gene pool or gene pools for which any individual may trace their roots to. In the case of the Native American Indians, their gene pool of origin is near Mongolia and not Israel as the B of M says. In the case of the Welch mingling with Indians who now speak like the Welch and have blue eyes, etc, in the Northern part of the USA as you reported in your show, or Knights Templar coming here, or a Prince from one of the United Kingdom regions building a castle on Nova Scotia or somewhere near there, or the thousands of people it would have taken to steal all that copper from Northern Michigan over hundreds or even thousands of years, certainly many people from other lands, if they were here, had to have also died here and be buried here. So find the human remains and have the genetic proof made known and there you will find your truthful answers to share with us all. By the way, I was very interested in your TV series until I got to your last three episodes where you attempted to claim Jesus had a wife and a kid and you did not ever give us anything to go on as to why you felt that was true except for a 15th century painting with a pregnant woman in it who you assumed was Mary Magdalene carrying the child of Jesus. I believe that if any of that were true, we would know about it from those who personally knew Jesus and knew the truth about Him and who died for that truth as they would not deny Christ, His existence, His deity, his Godhood, His ministry, His resurrection, and His ascension to Heaven. You can read all about Jesus and the actual people who knew him quite intimately for several years, some His entire life of around 33 years, and never did any of the Bible authors even come close to eluding that Jesus got married and had any kids. That is just a fantasy for people who try by the powers of satan to debunk the true Son of the Living God. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. Broad is the way that leads to destruction and many people find it. Narrow is the door that leads to life. Jesus is the narrow door. Agonize to find the narrow door but the pain is worth it. I pray that you and everyone who reads this will allow the Holy Spirit of Christ to lead you and them to His truth.
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Šuŋgléška
3/6/2015 03:14:57 pm
I agree with others who have mentioned the use of DNA analysis that would seem to narrow the list of pre-columbian visitors that could have made it here without leaving a lot more pre-columbian DNA all over the place. More significant though, I would think, would be that there would have to be a very long period of isolation to explain the very large numbers of Native Americans who died from exposure to the mix of germs that European explorers brought with them. There would have been at least some immunity to these germs, but as much as 98% of my people died in multiple plagues.
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RW - Chattahooche Nat'l Forrest Resident.
3/14/2015 11:16:23 am
Scott: Why people are doing all this put-down is beyond me. What is in a degree? One can learn more by studying the structure of the formations and the stone drawings than they could ever gain from sitting in a classroom and reading books. I learned so much from your report. I even wrote you a letter, but obviously you have moved on, a letter to the History Channel came back, but I never saw your telecast until this year. I think I may be part Creek Indian. I have also tried to find Richard Thornton, I would like to sit down and talk to him also........not to criticize either of you but to glean from you. If you read this and would contact me, it would be a red letter day in my life. RW from Georgia
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MIke MB again
3/14/2015 01:44:18 pm
RW LOL can you not read what you wrote and find anything wrong with it?
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MB Mike
3/14/2015 01:58:17 pm
Jason, I really hope you are not slapping your forehead every time some one comments directly to Scott in here. It is amazing though isn't it? It's what makes me not wonder how people get money from folks on the net anymore. I used to wonder who could really be that stupid, to send 39.99 + shipping and handling to some swindler and then fade away making that swindler an instant millionaire. Now I do not.
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David Andrews
3/15/2015 05:01:46 pm
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William Kirk
3/19/2015 07:27:57 am
I find many of the comments here, pro or con, to be rude. Though people will almost always side with an emotional argument over one based on facts... fact will win in the end. In the meantime, please remember that throwing more mud in the water just makes it harder to see bottom.
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Tony
3/19/2015 10:21:46 am
I find the show fascinating.
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MB Mike can't take it anymore.
3/19/2015 01:24:28 pm
can't take it anymore. outta here.
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4/2/2015 02:02:45 am
Scott watched your show hooked X
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Lillian Zachar
8/13/2015 07:19:14 pm
How do you really know? Where you there, Tonya Newton?
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Bonjing
4/12/2015 10:19:54 am
Mehhhh......
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Scott Lund
4/24/2015 06:05:35 am
Dead end search? That statement sounds like results first science which is just as bad as what you feel about the exploration based entertainment you are commenting on. Perhaps if you have time to enjoy art instead of Euro-centric guilt, and look at Mississippian culture, art and legend, while keeping Norse culture in the back of your mind, you may re-evaluate the term, "Dead End Search."
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John Christian
4/18/2015 01:11:11 pm
I know this is an ancient thread by internet standards, but I want to point out that the paradigm of a masters/phd degree issued by an academic university as a requirement to become an expert in any field is just "old and busted". If you know your stuff, you know your stuff -and not following the mold of bending to these giant, bloated, ideological institutions should actually be looked at as a "plus".
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Ge Ki
4/18/2015 01:36:47 pm
John Christian - As has been pointed out a million times on this page, the point of this page is NOT that Scott Wolter doesn't have a particular degree. READ THE TITLE. The point is that he LIED about having one. Maybe you're cool with lying. I'm not, especially in academia, where everything depends on honesty.
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arkof
12/13/2015 08:55:00 am
why not just tell us how you really feel?
Valerie G,
4/21/2015 12:20:51 pm
No matter the training, observation and confirmation of findings with experts in their respective fields outweighs internet flame wars. Mr Wolter is a man who can take an unbiased look from a fresh perspective and see patterns while exposing us to little-known finds. I'm happy to look and listen to his evidence and theories, and hope to see much more of his work.
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Ge Ki
4/21/2015 01:28:54 pm
Valerie - The fact remains that Wolter lied about his credentials. In your world, liars are trustworthy. Not in mine. There is no reason to believe Wolter to be "unbiased." And I have seen plenty of examples when he has not been unbiased.
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Scott Lund
4/24/2015 06:07:50 am
Ge Ki, you have seen plenty of examples? Awww, how sweet, you are a fan.
Ge Ki
4/24/2015 07:27:04 am
Great rebuttal, Scott Lund.
Cannibal
5/5/2015 04:58:55 pm
Scott Wolters, you are an asshat. Your opinion should be wholly discounted on the basis that the so called 'facts' that you present are hyperbole, the arguments you make, and historical accounts you present are drivel. By involving your son in your snake-oil business you will curse him to living the same faux-academic charade that you exist by. There is no limit to your arrogance. The lies you perpetuate are no different than those that created these hoaxes which you now examine-- a desire for undeserved recognition. If I were to guess you are likely dictating a new bible via your direct communiqué with god-- typical of your level of egotist.
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michaelangelo
5/10/2015 07:11:58 am
Not all whites except maybe all republicans they've been stealing and lying thru out history just look at every government in the world.
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Nunya Bidness
5/10/2015 11:30:41 pm
Holy-sh*t, the shear magnitude of arrogance and "ego-centrism" of Academia is on full display here! this is why nobody other than yourselves can stand to be around you. you assume it's because they're not smart enough to appreciate your brilliance, but in reality, it's because your sh*t really does STINK. it kind of reminds me of that South Park episode when Kyle's family moved to San Francisco where the people just loved to smell their own farts.
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Ursula R.
6/5/2015 03:25:52 am
My thoughts exactly....
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RETLOW TTOCS
5/21/2015 01:27:51 pm
Dont blame Scott. Blame the producers and director of the show. Blame the network for not giving ample time to film a complete 300 part documentary. Scott does a great job. TV doesnt work well without a formula. The formula supersedes the premise.
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steve hartwell
5/21/2015 02:17:48 pm
While tonite watching my first watched episode of one of Scott Wolter's recent 2015 episodes about the Holy Grail/Templar story, I've been wracking my brain on how to say what needs saying to Scott Wolter and to the American people about Scott Wolter and his Holy Grail/Templar episodes.
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Nunya Bidness
5/22/2015 04:41:51 pm
say, steve hartwell, you wouldn't happen to be Canadian would you? of all the crap to take offense to, you make it over the fact that he didn't mention that Nova Scotia was a Canadian province?
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Ursula R
6/5/2015 03:20:09 am
To question and question again incorporating new science, new findings and history as we know it now versus in the past is important at so many levels. To attack those who say "we need to look again and reexamine this or that" is simply ignorant.
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Ge Ki
6/5/2015 03:34:15 am
Ursula R - Too bad that's not the issue on this page. Look all the way up at the top of the page. See the title? Now if that said "Wolter thinks too far outside the box," then your comment would be relevant. But the issue is the fact that Wolter lied about his credentials, not where he thinks relative to the box. Try to focus.
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Eddie white
8/13/2015 10:40:03 am
Scott Wolter must be a moron . In a show about The Lost Colony in North Carolina, he went to a riverbank and picked up stones, to prove his point. There are no stones in this part of the state. All the land in this area consists of sand and silt, washed down from the mountains. What kind of geologist is he? Blatant bullshit.
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Billy Worth
8/13/2015 12:46:38 pm
Is Scott Wolter wrong? Maybe, but I have found it very healthy to keep an open mind EVERYTHING! Even if it is 100% proven and factual. An open mind is selfless and being selfless is for me refreshing. I even keep an open mind about MY OPINIONS and beliefs. Anyone with a closed mind is ignirant, selfish and unwilling to accept change. I can also admit I am wrong and be happy to do so. Being proven wrong does not bother me. Being proven wrong lets me knowvI learned something. As far as this subject matter goes I believe in several theories. I am also open to the Ancient Alien theory. You can call me a cook, you can call me names I simply just do not care what you or anybody else thinks about me. I have simply removed myself from the equation. Its funny seeing people get so worked up and upset because of what someone else thinks. This is the problem with the world. Everyone thinks they are right and if someone disagrees... Wars are started, political parties are formed, and people get mad. Why? I wish I knew. When someone disagrees with me I politely say thank you. Its good that other people think differently, buts it bad that people get so upset over it. Even if Scott Wolter is completely wrong... What is so wrong with him having his beliefs. Unless it is physically harming or hurting you... Nothing is wrong! People need to chill. I will get ripped for this post but so what... I could care less what people think of me.
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Lillian Zachar
8/13/2015 07:34:55 pm
Nicely said Billy Worth.
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Lillian Zachar
8/13/2015 07:31:35 pm
For every negative and nasty unasked comment, really? This world isn't going through enough? That you, in my opinion, shallow minded, jealous, inconsiderate and flat out rude people have to make comments like "I hope you and your daughter die in a car crash"! Really? You've got nothing better to do than bash a guy who is clearly trying to entertain us while supporting his family. If you don't like him, here's an idea, STOP WATCHING. There isn't a gun to your head. Don't make nasty, uncalled for comments about someone you all don't even know. That's what's the matter with this world. All you people with your bad attitudes and dispositions. If you don't have anything nice to say, you have the right to remain silent. Please by all means, DO! Sorry for all these nasty, stupid things you've read, Scott. I'm appalled at man kind at the moment.
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Pamela M
8/14/2015 04:16:55 pm
Holy crap! Two and half years later and this is still generating comments? Scott and Jason have struck a chord. I love the show and think it's highly entertaining and though provoking whether the truth is in the mix or not.
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Steve
8/16/2015 12:10:30 pm
Scott, if you are reading this, being that it is buried, I'd be impressed. I have watched most of your shows, and have questions for you. First, why expose your hypothesis regarding Jesus having a child without substantive evidence? Can you provide the bloggers with photos of your credentials? Why use foul language in your shows or argue and mock people that are on it?
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Kaiser Sosay
9/3/2015 07:36:09 pm
Well said. Scott should come out and tell the public his real credentials and get this over with. If you go on TV and claim something then prove it. I like the point about Scott not going after the Muslim faith, he is too cowardly to do that, so he we after people who wont retaliate.
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Andy
8/29/2015 05:19:03 pm
History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Science is only as TRUE as the Latest Discovery. (Notice that the "Big Bang Theory" has fallen out of favor) However, there is an organized and concerted effort to displace truth with 'political' gain. In the late 18th and early 19th century it was to the advantage of the United States to promote Manifest Destiny even before it had a name. Therefor, in compliance with that doctrine, it was necessary to maintain the doctrine that ALL AMERICAN INDIANS walked across the Bering Land bridge over a period of several thousand years and thus, by the words of Lewis Henry Morgan that all Indians were Savages even though he successfully defended the Iroquois Indians in maintaining their lands in court. Morgan, although religious most of his life, when he became the head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, either created or fell into the belief that NO INDIVIDUAL OF FAITH WAS QUALIFIED TO BE A SCIENTIST. So, along with John Wesley Powell the doctrine that NO PEOPLE OF European or Middle East decent ever reached America and no one of FAITH has a LEGITIMATE claim to insist otherwise especially any religious individual or group that claimed that they had found writings and artifacts that indicate otherwise. Even people working for the Smithsonian or National Geographic that found ancient Middle East or European writings or artifacts were ridiculed and maligned having their reputation destroyed and put out of business as a scientific source. Three words are used most often. "HOAX" and "ILLEGITIMATE" and "FRAUD"...in describing anything that does not coincide with the POWELL DOCTRINE toward the Indian Nations. In checking the Caucasian, White, European appearing Mummies in the Chinese Desert... their DNA showed that they had traces of just about every nation running in their family history. Dozens if not hundreds of sites in America show Caucasian, White, family characteristics and the POLITICALLY CORRECT community about has a cow. Every Culture that Anciently had Writing IS FOUND IN THE AREA CALLED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and actually all of North America and South America. AMERICA WAS NOT "LOST" UNTIL THE 'DARK AGES'... The population of the world has been coming and going from America for literally THOUSANDS OF YEARS...why not the Night Templars? The Egyptians, The Manoians, The Vikings, The Irish, The Walsh, The Persians and more (p.s. and some of the Lost Tribes of Israel got here also...oh by the way, Indians do not have Jewish DNA because the Jews were not "LOST", although there is HEBREW writing in ancient America, but that does not fit in to the Manifest Destiny Doctrine nor the Powell Doctrine.) The Windover Bog People (Florida) had European DNA yet the head archaeologist says in a written statement that these Indians walk over the Bering Land bridge just like everyone else. IF HE DID NOT SAY THAT HE WOULD LOOSE ALL FUNDING in any future project. Dr Louis Leakey is a hero for finding Lucy in Africa but when he found 150 thousand year old Indian Burial Site at Calico (Barstow) California, all his funding dried up and nothing got published. Surprise, Surprise.
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linkonhayes
8/30/2015 05:33:54 am
That's Entertainment.
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Andy (again)
8/30/2015 03:28:12 pm
Note about Scott Wolter's Honorary Degree: There is more to your criticism here than the question of a degree, honorary or not. Hay Jason try this: There is not One Paper, Not One Person, Not One Faculty Professor, Not One Student, that remembers Barack Obama attending or participating in any class or student project while attending Columbia University. There Has Not One Record that has been released by the University nor any of his academic papers, or Philosophies Treatises ever been shown or published. I say that to say this… Are you really concerned that there is not a public record that you can find about some honorary degree or is your “anger” directed to what he is saying? One does not have to have a diploma to be smart. One does not have a degree or a title to have information or a conversation of intelligence or even “Common Sense” (which seem to be dwindling in the time of “Political Correctness”). Jason you are an ‘editor’ and ‘publisher’ but I do not know your credentials. Does that mean that you are not an authority on any subject that you publish or question? Whoop-de-do! There is more to your interest than Scott Wolter's honorary degree. Is there a dislike of Scott Walter personally, or his Faith, or his Method of reasoning, or his Archeology findings, or the fact that America has been visited and colonized by more people that those that seem to be of Oriental decent, over the last 20 or 30 or 40 thousand years? Character Assignation has been the method used by “authoritative government” especially in dealing with the Indians and Ancient Artifacts for over 150 years… Who are you? You want to look into something that is not true work on Man Made Global Warming? Boy, talk about a hoax. And explain all the previous Global Warm Periods when man made Industrial Pollutions cannot be blamed. And no this is NOT the hottest the world has ever been. But because there are more people alive than any time in the past, more people are feeling the 'heat' so to speak.
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Tatyana Sokolov
12/21/2018 01:58:46 pm
Really like your comment. I'm also wondering the same, where is all this anger and spite coming from. Circling back to the original comment made by Tara Jordan..wow...it was cute watching her quickly back down after Scott reponded. In any case, its always easy to judge someone, it doesn't take energy or time to research, but if you turn to destructive methods, that does not say much to me about YOU as a person, hence your point of you is disqualified in my book from that point on. If you're going to criticize someone, do it in a constructive manner, with evidence and research, not nasty spiteful comments.
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Stan Browm
9/2/2015 11:26:52 am
Scott;
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John
9/13/2015 03:13:06 am
If you guys thought that Scott lied about his Masters being an actual accredited degree, than you have to hear how both Scott and the History Channel are now passing him off as a Historian now, and not a Geologist anymore. But don't take my word for it, watch his new show "Pirate treasure of the Knights Templar", where they distinctly call him at the beginning of the first two episodes a "Historian." Also, here is the conversation I had with Scott over on his blog where he says it can't be changed now:
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Ge Ki
9/13/2015 03:40:40 am
Quite revealing, thanks John. It shows that Scott Wolter is willing to accept whatever imaginary accolades will make him appear bigger than he is. He says he's "published a lot of original historical research." I wonder where he has published? Has any of it been published in academic journals in which articles are first reviewed by actual historians before publication? I can't call it "peer review" because actual historians are way more qualified than Wolter's peers.
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Bill
11/9/2015 05:57:16 pm
Nothing guarantees competence but an academic with years of specialized study and research is far more than likely to be competent in the field. More competent than a television host or someone who holds an undergraduate in geology with no formal training in history or any other field traditional to historic research.
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Victor Dyson
9/13/2015 04:13:34 am
Why is Barry Clifford being associated with the likes of Scott Wolter? Mr. Clifford is indeed a real genuine expert and discoverer of artifacts and historian especially in regard to pirate and maritime discovery. So why does Barry Clifford want to be associated with shady Scott Wolter?
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John
9/13/2015 06:01:48 am
Welcome to the internet.
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ScottyMon
4/28/2016 06:39:56 pm
Barry Clifford and expert and discoverer of artifacts? Seriously? What a huckster.
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Internat
9/19/2015 03:03:43 pm
SCOTT REALLY HAS DEGREE. HE IS THE SMART AND YOU ALL DUMB
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BJradley M. Armitage (M.A.)
10/17/2015 12:00:05 pm
Internat, your broken English call into the voracity of your expertise to comment in such a well thought out site.
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Bradley M. Armitage
9/20/2015 05:22:30 pm
Mr. Wolter, is flat wrong in everything he is saying about the Templars (The Ancient order of the Temple). Let's take a look at his new show, pirates and Templars on the History channel. He describes in detail how the novice is tested to gain admission. Nobody knows this. There are no records. How did Mr. Wolter get this information? just pick anything he says, google it, and his info will be wrong, just my opinion, but accurate I think.
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Zacarias Valles
10/18/2015 03:01:16 am
Once upon a time and to present time a few quacks are born. Sometimes a lot of them at one time.
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Ralph Palmer
10/26/2015 05:41:29 pm
Hey Scott,
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arkof
12/13/2015 08:29:59 am
hey, since scott can gain access to even the most religious places on the planet, like the dome of the rock, why not go to etheopia where everyone knows is where the ark of the cov. is located. then with the power he can declair himself God and he will not need a degree in anything!
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James L. Coster
12/23/2015 10:40:18 pm
i've watched a number of shows where mr. wolter was involved in one manner or another. and i watch the history channel regularly. mr. walter's shows seem very light on science but are mildly stimulating and somewhat entertaining. however, one show he did particularly upset me - the search for the Holy Grail in which mr. wolter spent the entire episode on some kind of anti-Christian soapbox declaring that Jesus was a regular guy who was married to Mary Magdalene. if there is one thing i know for sure it's that mr. wolter has NO training nor authority to comment about Jesus, Mary Magdalene or the Christian faith in general. as a Christian, i found that episode very offensive and lost all further interest in viewing wolter in any subsequent show. so i say to you mr. wolter - do whatever you want with your "rocks for jocks" degree and your "world hopping" TV shows. but PLEASE, SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT YOUR VIEWS ON CHRISTIANITY!!
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Nathaniel McComb
1/1/2016 10:01:26 pm
I love all the comments. It's like reading FACEBOOK. All bunk and junk. It's fun to discover all these armchair experts trolling the internet to start stupid arguments.
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Justin
1/13/2016 07:57:32 pm
I think anyone on here that has to hate on Scott this much needs a life. Especially the originator of this blog. I'm no scholar or even claim to be. Scott on the other hand has brought to the publics attention things that are out there. And the ONLY argument here is prove him wrong. Get your own show, publish your own books, and prove him wrong. Otherwise I'd say grow up and get lives. Honestly if I had the money I would back him. On the simple fact of humanity, that it's easier to believe the lie than the truth. The truth hurts, and Scott contests the truth. I applaud him.
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James L. Coster
1/13/2016 08:09:50 pm
i don't have any problem with anything mr. wolter wants to say or do regarding NON-RELIGIOUS, NON-CHRISTIAN topics. i have actually found some of his theories interesting. HOWEVER, as i stated previously, scott wolter has NO background, education or credentials of ANY KIND to offer his ridiculous theories on Jesus being "just another guy with a wife." he should have enough sense to keep that opinion to himself - PERIOD, END OF DISCUSSION!!
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1/16/2016 06:01:17 am
I like your blog. I enjoyed reading your blog. It was amazing. Thanks a lot.
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Moogie
2/4/2016 11:04:55 am
Irrespective of his qualifications, Scott Wolter encourages you not to accept currently preferred historical explanations as 'facts'. History changes all the time and what we know, or think we know, is often the opinion of historians, rather than fact. I have a degree in History but always keep an open mind and am happy to be proved wrong about something if new evidence emerges. I find Mr Wolter's ideas to be thought provoking and interesting if nothing else! At the end of the day, it's TV entertainment and he does it well.
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Jim Coster
2/25/2016 07:29:35 pm
Mr. Wolter must be so proud to see that one of his "entertainment" shows featuring his anti-Christian and blasphemous anti-God views about Christ is being shown over and over again during this Lenten season. I have no idea what Wolter's infatuation with Dan Brown's "make believe" books are nor why Wolter believes it is his mission in life to "prove" that "Jesus had a wife and kids" just like everyone else. I feel sorry for him if his personal insecurity and ego drives this obvious obsession. Mr. Wolter: do you not care that your views on this topic are incredibly offensive to millions of people? Or perhaps, you simply don't give a shit. Without any comment to the contrary from you, I can only assume the latter.
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frank
2/26/2016 02:32:55 am
wow, lots of people know what is what here. Cool
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Scott Wolter... What a mess.
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You Favorite Secret Society
4/3/2016 07:49:56 pm
Elect Hillary, so you can all be indoctrinated like brilliant unsuspecting followers and make it easy for your conquerors. Believe me, they are all proud of you. They have you and there is nothing you can do at this point because you don't and can't even realize what is happening. You are asleep at the wheel or probably too busy texting. They thank you for not studying your history because you will repeat it. Continue to play your video games, worry with your phones, and worship Facebook. It's amazing how easy you have made things for them. It's a damn shame you never cared about America, but only yourselves. Your posts have reveled that to everyone around the world. Good luck fools!
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Diana Lee-McAnsh
4/4/2016 01:38:08 pm
In Canada we're watching your political situation very closely. Your post though sarcastically delivered is right on. The US is extremely powerful in bullshit baffles brains mentalities in politics, and probably in the population generally. I say this because so many people are taken in by Mr. Wolter's claims. But Scott Wolter is practicing what your country considers successful behavior, he bullshits, and he thinks his shit doesn't stink, this attitude comes out loud and clear. He's full of himself, but then so are many Americans in general. Watched a program where the jury members were described as "American jurors' what the heck else would they be? Why put the word 'American' in there? In a country where grandiose behavior is encouraged, correction, it's a right of passage as a citizen of one of the bully nations, what other behavior do you expect to dominate your media? Your message is correct, but the delivery of your excellent comments are negative, rather than inviting intelligent discourse the post instead invites antagonism.
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Jim Coster
4/4/2016 02:25:52 pm
ms. lee-mcansh...
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4/23/2016 08:10:03 am
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Well, now, as my Irish Ancestors used to say:
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5/6/2016 05:32:16 am
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bugu
7/12/2016 03:44:23 pm
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Shari
7/17/2016 12:41:01 pm
You need to read "Entryway Into Yesteryears" it about God and his young brother Lord Christ. God remove Lord Christ from Heaven, because he want to start his own religion call Christianity. God is Adam father (Adam and Eve) and Lord Christ is father to Jesus.
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Adam
8/4/2016 10:30:45 pm
What the hell are you smoking? you realize the bible was written several hundred years later right? It's the biggest scam in history pushed by fear. Do you believe in magic? Same damn thing...
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Adam
8/4/2016 10:25:00 pm
You people have to remember that every show on tv is edited. Scott did a good job and is knowledgable, im sure there were a lot of things he wish he could have said on tv. I like how everyone on here thinks they are a genius. If you really knew the truth you would shit yourself
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Clerinos
9/27/2016 05:31:56 pm
First time I saw him on TV I suspected that Wolter is a more of a "showman" than a scientist. Maybe it is because I spent forty years in law enforcement I tend to have a knack for recognizing self serving people. Also although I am "white male with some college" voting for Trump, I still know a liar. I am not saying Wolter is a liar. There is just no evidence to indicate that he is fully truthful. You know an omission has the strength of a commission. There are plenty in his "investigations"
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Robert Alfred Larson
11/7/2016 04:09:23 pm
I can show you the Templar treasure that is located just to the East of the lake (the so called "Lady of the Lake". This is a stone box containing the remains of Mary and Sarah. The Templars buried it' built a huge earth mound over it, then flooded the site. Would anyone like to know where it is?
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Robert Alfred larson
11/7/2016 04:30:37 pm
Well...I will tell you know anyway.... This is true and correct. I dare anyone to prove me wrong. Back in the day... many secret society members searched for the treasure. There were many clues left, but the ones in the know only had one vector and no cross point. Where does one stop on the geographical line? Where is Bear Lake Minnesota? Hint. Where is Vineland, Minnesota? Hint The Templars missed it and ended up being killed near Kensington, Minnesota. They travelled to far. Where is Waldo?
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Robert Alfred Larson
11/7/2016 04:54:21 pm
Big Hint: Find the Blade of the Cross.
Heather Green
11/10/2016 12:16:15 pm
Sure! I would!
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Heather Gree
11/10/2016 12:26:31 pm
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, as this thread is loooong and I didn't read the whole thing, but many of you may not be privy to how Hollywood works. Mr. Woltet probably has very litttle to say about his show and how each episode plays out. The channel wants ratings. Rating = $$. Scott was chosen because he's good looking, personable, and has some knowledge in this field. He is successful in drawing the viewer in and taking them on an adventure. The producers of this show probably care very little if the content is true, and believe me, the stars of these shows have very little control over content and editing. Having said this, and being a Forensic Expert in 4 different areas, I can say that Mr. Wolter was engaging and at least brought to the public different areas of history that many of us didn't even know existed. For that, I'm grateful to the show. It is a fun and entertaining hour. My suggestion is that if you find the subject interesting, go research it yourself, and add to the scientific community by sharing your findings. Never, ever, depend on a television show to educate you , but use it as a springboard for further investigation. Now...I have research to get back to. Peace.
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11/10/2016 05:23:57 pm
ms. gree...
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12/17/2016 02:30:18 pm
How the Jewish, Vikings, etc that Scott believe came to NA before Columbus, survived? Certainly, in certain areas there was Not water. And I did not see animals, fruits/vegetable etc. People cannot survive for more than few days without water or food. Especially, water. Since he is nto finding the truth, then he should find this important issue.
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Mohammed Abdul
5/1/2017 02:11:19 am
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jerry
5/2/2017 06:51:27 am
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Frank Caridi
5/18/2017 03:40:54 pm
I always find comical how people, when they are in disagreement with someone's view - how quick they are to try to discredit them by accusing them of not having the proper credentials etc. instead of proving them wrong with undeniable proof.
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olivia
6/28/2017 03:43:24 pm
MY TESTIMONY TO THE WORLD
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dan jerry
6/30/2017 06:26:58 pm
Welcome to brotherhood Illuminati where you can become
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Jack Capella
6/3/2018 10:00:40 am
Kensington Rune Stone solved... Wolter's agrees.
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Jack Capella
6/3/2018 10:06:19 am
Wolters explains his honorary degree due to vicious attacks and speculation.
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Tye Tyson
10/12/2018 02:24:25 pm
The problem with academia in America, especially writers, is that they think a degree gives them the right to sit at a desk 1,000 miles away from an artifact and reject it out of hand. And we're supposed to bow down to them because they taught at a college for 20 years. Nobody cares and you're all a bunch of pretentious a-holes. Go back to your communist brainwashing and leave the fieldwork to the people with open minds.
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Jorge Roma
11/15/2018 09:32:19 pm
While I see the show as just purely entertainment, I am saddened with Scott's belief that Jesus was not the Son of man. Jesus did not have relations with Mary Magdalene nor did he extend His blood line with Mary. I pray that Scott finds the Truth and comes to know that the Bible is the inerrant word of God and comes to believe in our Savior. I was entertained by the show up until I saw the episode of Scott making statements against the Truth, at that point I turned off the show and will not watch any other episode. Scott, may God bless you and I hope you find the truth, the way and the life! I have been so blessed by our Lord that there is no shaking my faith and I hope you also arrive at that same truth!
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Tony
12/24/2018 06:41:27 am
Whether you are pro-Wolter or against Wolter, why do so many institutions try to hide the truth from us? How do they have the gall to think we are not capable of handling the truth and that their fabrications are better for us than the truth? Perhaps some reasons Scott can't come up with the truth is 1) he wasn't there when it happened 2) somebody removed it, then 3) gave us lies to digest instead.
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Lucius Cincinnatus
1/2/2019 09:47:47 pm
I am not familiar with the work of Jason or Scott but came across this post while cross referencing a source linked to Scott. I have no opinion of him or his work yet but am more intrigued to read his work after coming across Jason (who takes a tone that would imply he’s fairly credentialed academically himself) taking to the internet to write a long winded & pompous appeal to accomplishments fallacious attack against Scott... has all the hall marks of a uppity Academic hack threatened by someone with less formal education possibly being able to contribute to his field.
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EDWARD LOPEZ
5/5/2019 09:16:53 pm
Today is May 5, 2019 and I'm watching, again, America Unearthed reruns on the Travel channel. Scott is entertaining to watch but irritating to listen to when he claims, as fact, bullshit about jesus, mary magdalene, the holy grail and all the other claims most of which have been proven hoaxes such as the Talpiot tomb which contained ossuaries alleged to belong jesus and his family. It's been debunked.
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get rich
12/25/2019 10:07:22 pm
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