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A Dismal Revelation: 2023 in Review

12/28/2023

Another year has passed us by, and it seems that each one is somehow a little bit darker than the one before. I’ll be honest: I had a hard time bringing myself to write this year-end wrap-up this year. It’s been a hard twelve months. At the beginning of the year, the release of generative A.I. completely destroyed my career, wiping out virtually the entire industry of business writing that was my bread and butter. It happened so quickly and so destructively that CBS’s 60 Minutes came out to Albany to interview me about losing my job to a machine, and then I experienced a double humiliation when the venerable newsmagazine called me a few hours before my interview was scheduled to air to tell me that they cut me from the story and replaced me with an interview with a generative A.I. chatbot.

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UPDATE: Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Demon UFOs and "Spiritual" Attacks

12/21/2023

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Last week, I discussed an interview in which influential conservative pundit and potential 2024 vice presidential or 2028 presidential candidate Tucker Carlson appeared to suggest that he believes UFOs are demons. Carlson stated that what he learned about UFOs was so “dark” that it disturbed him and he refused to share it with his wife. While many Carlson fans attempted to excuse his comments with scholastic nitpicking to argue that the “spiritual” aspect of UFOs he referred to did not mean UFOs were demonic, in new comments Carlson is much more direct.

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Russian Scholarly Journal Uses Ancient Alien Claims in Push for Crackdown on Sex

12/20/2023

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As we move toward Christmas, it’s been a relatively slow week for news from the fringe. However, I do want to briefly mention that Tucker Carlson announced on Blaze TV that he is now “open” to the flat earth theory and said that after the “deception” that he encountered from stories such as the UFO conspiracies he previously said had “bothered” him, he can no longer be sure that scientists aren’t conspiring to hide the true shape of the earth. While his comments were somewhat tongue-in-cheek, his implication that elites are deceiving us on even the most basic facts about the world continued his flirtation with science denial.

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Daily Mail Reports the Usual UFO Suspects Secretly Wrote Schumer's UFO Law

12/16/2023

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This morning, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat called for alleged UFO “whistleblowers” to put up or shut up in their seemingly endless quest to tease alien revelations that are always on the verge of arriving but never actually come. Douthat, who says he doubts any multi-generational conspiracy to hide extraterrestrial technology exists, also called out senators like Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for being “superweird” about UFOs. But if only Douthat knew just how weird. Only a few hours earlier, Josh Boswell published a sensationalized story in the Daily Mail alleging that the team of lunatics, grifters, and profiteers behind the recent resurgence in ufology secretly wrote the very legislation they attempted to launch a media and public protest campaign to pass.

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Tucker Carlson Endorses Ancient Alien Ideas, Says "Dark" UFO Lore Frightens Him

12/13/2023

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The recent National Defense Authorization Act, nearing passage, contains a watered-down UFO provision that eliminates many of the most dramatic and controversial elements of the Senate amendment pushed through by majority leader Chuck Schumer. The resulting legislation, and the more limited windfall it provides to UFO contractors and think tanks like Garry Nolan’s Sol Foundation, prompted so-called UFO whistleblower David Grusch, an executive at Sol, to tell News Nation this week that stripping the government’s ability to seize any materials ufologists deemed “alien” was “the greatest legislative failure in American history.” I imagine that would be a surprise to, say, those who died as a result of the Indian Removal Act. But Grusch’s comments were far less interesting than offhand remarks conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson made about UFOs.

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Graham Hancock Resurrects Old Claims in New Lecture

12/6/2023

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This week, Graham Hancock posted to YouTube video of a ninety-minute lecture he gave at a rented hall at University College in London in which he repeated arguments from his previous books and offered his usual bevy of attacks on archaeologists and what he sees as a nefarious conspiracy to suppress his claims about a lost Ice Age civilization. Because the majority of the lecture is simply a rehash of his past books, there is little purpose in going through it point for point (see my reviews of Magicians of the Gods, America Before, and Ancient Apocalypse for more detailed breakdowns). However, I do want to highlight a few key points in the evolving arguments Hancock uses.

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A Dismal Revelation: 2023 in Review

UPDATE: Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Demon UFOs and "Spiritual" Attacks

Russian Scholarly Journal Uses Ancient Alien Claims in Push for Crackdown on Sex

Daily Mail Reports the Usual UFO Suspects Secretly Wrote Schumer's UFO Law

Tucker Carlson Endorses Ancient Alien Ideas, Says "Dark" UFO Lore Frightens Him

Graham Hancock Resurrects Old Claims in New Lecture

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