Months after debating archaeologist Flint Dibble on The Joe Rogan Experience, Gaham Hancock broke his silence about the encounter, writing on X (formerly Twitter) that he had been “conned” and endorsing a YouTube video alleging that Dibble lied five times over the multi-hour debate in order to humiliate Hancock with false information. Hancock did not explain how he failed to recognize the allegedly false information, which was directly relevant to the information he claimed to have researched for more than thirty years. The arguments used by YouTuber “DeDunker” were not terribly convincing, but even if taken at face value would hardly rise above slight misstatements or minor confusion when speaking extemporaneously for many hours. More concerning is that Hancck jumped on the “conned” bandwagon to save face after having no other response to Dibble dominating the debate for three months.
Meanwhile, alien-hunting Harvard scientist Avi Loeb managed to top even himself with a supremely bizarre blog post in which he obliviously revealed both his arrogance and his elitism while reveling in the entrée his claims about space aliens have given him into the most elite cultural circles.
Loeb was invited to a ritzy Capitol Hill get-together as a guest of honor to talk about aliens with the rich and powerful. But that wasn’t all. “As soon as I arrived onsite, the filming crew of a Netflix documentary about my research placed a microphone behind my tie just before 75 people from government, the private sector and news media filled up the meeting room up to its full capacity.” Not content to film a Netflix documentary while speaking to a private gathering of the cultural elite, Loeb announced he was writing two new books, including a children’s book about hunting aliens, and told the producers of the documentary that he hoped he would discover alien life—after he achieved his other goal, immortality. He then weirdly compared humanity and aliens to Romeo and Juliet: “After the filming ended, I told Jason [Kohn, the documentary’s director] that it would be tragic if we fell into the trap of Romeo and Juliet who never fulfilled a life together just because of traditional restrictions set by the ‘adults in the room.’” I’m not sure that’s the lesson to take from Romeo and Juliet, nor am I quite sure what an immortal Avi Loeb plans to do with the aliens he befriends.
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Sea People Sam
6/17/2024 09:42:42 pm
So Hancock's newest and most popular defender is someone that has stated on multiple occasions that he believes that about two-thirds of what Hancock is pushing is BS?
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Larry
6/18/2024 12:50:52 pm
"Graham Hancock Says Flint Dibble "Conned" Him" and continued with "that's my job!".
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Charles Verrastro
6/30/2024 03:01:07 pm
I just hope he was making an awkward, non sequitur remark about the government somehow foiling our chances to greet aliens.
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