Read My New Piece on "Ancient Apocalypse" in "The New Republic"

12/5/2022

British journalist Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse has become a surprise cultural phenomenon since its November 11 release on Netflix. The archaeology-themed series garnered an impressive 24.62 million hours of viewing in its first week of release, landing in the streaming service’s top 10 in 31 countries. It has also sparked unparalleled outrage from archaeologists and journalists, resulting in dozens of think pieces decrying the show’s many false claims and illogical arguments, analyzing its racist implications, and declaring the series everything from “fishy” to the “most dangerous” show on Netflix. “Why has this been allowed?” asked Britain’s The Guardian. The answer to that seemed pretty obvious: Hancock’s son, Sean Hancock, is Netflix’s senior manager for unscripted originals.

Hancock’s show speculates that a crashing comet destroyed Atlantis, or a similar lost civilization, 13,000 years ago in a series of events remembered as the Great Flood. Ancient monuments and wisdom are therefore the legacy of Atlantis’s survivors, not Earth’s diverse peoples and cultures. Explaining all the reasons Hancock is wrong would take a whole book. Fortunately, I’ve written two. Reader, he is wrong...

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12 Comments

Darold Knowles

12/5/2022 06:35:32 pm

After mentioning “Treasure Force Commander” in the piece, you’d better alert your homeowner’s insurance carrier about the upcoming defamation claim — they will provide you with a lawyer under the duty to defend clause!

Anthony G.

12/5/2022 08:14:00 pm

Congratulations on your book selling well. Hopefully you can enjoy the profits and don't have to dump more money into another boiler.

A blog post describing the whole book publication process would be an interesting read. I'm sure the process has its own drama with a certain amount of suspense.

There's hope for the Truth after all.

Kent

12/9/2022 01:03:15 am

You're the guy who said Jason lived in an expensive house because your cellphone deluded you into thinking he had stained glass on 2/25/2021 07:03:32 pm

And then:

2/27/2021 04:43:44 am
"'I don't know what your obsession with my window is, but stop it.'

There is no obsession with your window. Was attempting to show capabilities of a cellphone..."

Your response to "stop it" is to keep going. Sounds kinda rapey, Mr. Scholarship Winner.

p.s. Your (ex?) wife and your mother both suck if I believe what you claim you read (fat chance).

I think the Court has taken due notice of your concept of the capabilities of a cellphone.

12/13/2022 11:07:49 pm

Man, I've been reading through articles on here and you really are quite the autistic prick. You should get yourself together man, you are very hateful and spiteful and aggressive towards literally everyone. Yikes.

Bill esquire

12/15/2022 09:21:46 pm

Dh, at least he is sparing everyone with quotes straight from Smart sounding Latin expression for dummies volume 1, chapter 1. So far.

Kent

12/25/2022 12:35:04 am

DH: While I personally have always heard that you are a tender and giving lover, your hatred for people on the spectrum is troubling. I'm afraid we're over. You cannot get this!

Lesson learned about public library stall walls.

Jim

12/11/2022 12:23:29 pm

In regard to Hancock debating Professor Hoopes:

I see Hancock has already started with the B.S. altering the words of Professor Hoopes.

Article about Hoopes:

" Familiar with Hancock’s work for more than 30 years and having written scholarly as well as public commentary about him, "

http://news.ku.edu/2022/10/25/professor-can-comment-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-how-pseudoarchaeology-can-reinforce

Hancock:

" In addition to the 30 years he claims to have spent studying my work, "

He actually starts out O.K. with this: "we also learn that Hoopes has been familiar with my work for more than 30 years" but later on in the article he presented on his site he misrepresents the word "Familiar" to " to the 30 years he claims to have spent studying my work "

https://grahamhancock.com/hancockg20-debate/?fbclid=IwAR26MVZedcybXa8vrbFJrF5d6anwteWYQfaJUnyTNNKbLC2SdC3lX-YJMxI

Why the hell anyone would debate Hancock on his buddy's show The Joe Rogan Experience, is beyond me.
I suggest a neutral debate site with future copyright limitations, as in no showing clips of the show that can be taken out of context without each party's agreement on each specific clip. (in complete final form, showing context, to be publicly presented)
Showing the entire debate would be allowed without agreement.

,,,,,,Or Something along those lines.

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The Atlantis Expert

12/24/2022 05:44:49 pm

The existence of an ancient advanced civilization that was destroyed by a cataclysm would totally shatter the credibility of experts not just in archaeology, or in closely related fields but in fields that are essentially unrelated to the question of a lost civilization.

No person, community, or group would have a claim to accurate knowledge from authority, education, or training.

That's the way the world should be in my view - and that's not a "conservative freak out," but rather stems from the belief that the universe is complex enough for intelligent, well-intentioned people to consistently be deceived by it at the margins of knowledge.

Good to think, but....

12/24/2022 06:42:07 pm

If such imaginary discovery was made, it would be made or officially confirmed by experts in the requisite fields. Experts would direct all subsequent data recovery, data analysis, and write-up. The same would be true for curation and exhibition of materials from the discovery. Or do you think that Graham Hancock would suddenly be recognized as the only person qualified to conduct archaeological excavation of a site or sites, conduct C14 testing, conduct analysis of human remains and DNA, conduct linguistic analysis of written materials, or conduct metallurgical or ceramic analysis of artifacts?

Hancock would have no direct role in any of this. Just like Eric V Daniken would have no direct role if a discovery was made of extraterrestrial life. Or like Scott Wolter would have no direct role if a discovery was made that Phoenicians established a trading company in North Carolina. Their roles would be much like now, outsiders looking in.

Paradigm shifts don't necessitate a suspension of the basic rules of modern scientific inquiry and associated training, credentials and qualifications. Thinking otherwise is as fantastical as the civilization that Hancock promotes but never seems to be able to precisely describe in any consistent fashion.

E.P. Grondine

1/7/2023 03:39:35 pm

It is strange to watch the reaction to Hancock's use of the 10,500 BCE impact event.

By the way there was another small impact around 2,500 years before this one. That first impact produced Meltwater Pulse 1A while the second was Meltwater Pulse 1B. Both of these were accompanied by gamma ray production.

I like Andrew Collin's works much better than Hancock's. I suspect that both of them are looking for a culture which now lies below the Black Sea. Sorry, but nothing more advanced than very well developed stone tools.

Jack Nasty

12/25/2022 06:04:03 pm

Racist? There's no racism involved. It's just bad history.

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