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On Friday, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson devoted his show to the Nephilim, interviewing pastor Stephen de Young of the Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Louisiana about the biblical beings, which de Young claims are demonic hybrids who have infiltrated the upper echelons of our society. During the interview, Carlson—allegedly a Christian and a promoter of Christianity—claimed he was unaware of Genesis 6 or the Nephilim narrative until four years ago, when “someone mentioned it to me. And in the subsequent years, I must have had 15, 25 conversations about the Nephilim.”
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Recently, the creationists at Noah’s Ark Scans have been trying to drum up more interest in their claim that the Durupinar formation eighteen miles south of Mt. Ararat in Turkey is the Ark. To that end, the group’s leader, Andrew Jones, has been on a media tour promoting his claim that a scan found a thirteen-foot tunnel running through the Ark-shaped rocks, which geologists insist is actually a natural formation. Genesis 8:4 specifies that the Ark landed upon the mountains of Ararat, but Durupinar is located near the base of Mount Tendürek.
At a cabinet meeting this morning, Pres. Donald Trump praised his administration for releasing UFO files because of their popularity on social media: “We're releasing a lot of information having to do with extraterential, terrestrial, uh, things,” Trump said, struggling to say the word “extraterrestrial.” “And, uh, people are totally fascinated by it. It’s amazing. I wasn’t sure if they would enjoy it. It’s literally trending number one. Can you believe it? So a lot of people out there like it.” His comments did not appear to signal any imminent announcement of alien life, despite claims from ufologists that presidential confirmation of ETs on earth is coming soon.
NewsNation UFO correspondent Ross Coulthart claimed in a live interview with the network’s Alex Caprariello that the Trump Administration is soliciting advice from religious leaders about how best to prepare the country for the “ontological shock” of a planned announcement that extraterrestrial beings are operating on Earth. As with many of Coulthart’s recent claims, his comments did not have any verifiable facts or specific names attached to them: This week, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson released a new book about extraterrestrials, Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter, which was greeted with fairly negative reviews for its superficial combination of science trivia and movie references. Somehow, Tyson wrote a glib book about how fictional aliens connect to scientific concepts without ever mentioning written science fiction. But his book launch occasioned the need to drum up publicity about space aliens, so Tyson has been on a media tour and earning backlash for his comments on flying saucers and the government’s interest in them.
On Sunday, Corsetti released his promised video attacking Zahi Hawass. During his appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, Hawass had stated that nothing had been found in the Osiris Shaft sarcophagus, which was empty when it was opened in 1999. Corsetti correctly notes that when Hawass published his site report in 2007, he stated that a skeleton (more properly, the remains of human bones) had been found in the sarcophagus along with some amulets. On Friday, Piers Morgan Uncensored aired an hour-long episode featuring an interview with Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and a debate between Hawass and three fringe history social media agitators. The episode was a sequel to one that aired last year that found the host asking if debunking fringe pyramid claims was racist against white men. During the debate portion, Jimmy Corsetti accused Hawass of conspiring to suppress discoveries at Giza and was humiliated alongside fellow conspiracy theorists Michael Button and Timothy Alberino when Hawass exposed how painfully little reading any of them had done in the academic literature on Egypt. The three of them were unable to discuss anything they hadn’t read in a Graham Hancock book. Even a chastened Morgan seemed to have a change of heart. In response, Corsetti later took to social media to make the outrageous accusation that Hawass was complicit in trafficking Egyptian antiquities on the black market.
Last week, a professor of English claimed that Satan’s fall to Earth in Dante’s Inferno was an accurate description of a meteor strike on the planet. Timothy Burbery of Marshall University made the claim that Dante engaged in a thought experiment in impact physics to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly on Friday, where he claimed that Dante provided a description of the impact crater created by a meteor impact and the resulting shock waves that anticipated modern scientific understanding of “modern meteorics,” including non-Euclidean mathematical modeling.
More than a quarter-century ago, the CIA released a 1952 archival document listing archived photographs taken in 1950. According to the heavily redacted 10-page document, a couple whose names were withheld—but were certainly anthropologist and Afghanistan scholar Louis Dupree and his first wife, Annie Dupree—took photos during a trip to Afghanistan between July and December 1952.
The agency’s primary interest was in the Afghan photos, but the roles of film, which were loaned to the agency and then returned, also included some exposures from a stop-over in Lebanon and Egypt on route. Photos taken of the Sphinx caused a stir online yesterday when social media gadflies like Jimmy Corsetti suggested they proved the CIA had evidence of the supposed Hall of Records under the Sphinx. Archaeologists racing to excavate the bones of a lost race of giants in a remote wilderness. Hints of a lost civilization. An attack by hostile Natives, and sensational dispatches from a reporter on the scene. But how much of it really happened?
When the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 extended copyright protection for an additional 25 years, it had the effect of freezing the public domain for much of my adult life. As a result, material from the 1920s and 1930s was often quite difficult to access, making it hard to check on particular claims—but easy for pseudohistory writers to make claims, knowing most readers would never be able to find the truth. However, now that the public domain has been unfrozen and material from 1930 has entered the public domain, a particular claim about a race of giants in a remote part of Mexico is much easier to research to find the real story the fringe writers left out. |
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