was a crock of s**t. I did not listen to the entire thing - too much BS to tolerate after lunch without puking.
I took some notes in order to dispute some of his specific claims, but got tired of documenting them. It was like fact checking a Trump rally.
This guy uses a very common conspiracy theory technique. He gives a bachelor's degree in geology as his credential, to "prove" that he supposedly knows what he is talking about, but then later discredits science as a valid field, and all scientists that don't agree with his untested hypotheses as stodgy and unable to accept new "facts" - which are not actually facts. The video is full of gaslighting, and of some outright lies, not to mention very imaginative conclusions that are not supported by evidence.
These kinds of videos get followers from otherwise intelligent people who don't have any background in the topics discussed for evaluating what this charlatan is saying about anthropology, archeology, geology, and comparative history of civilizations.
One of this character's most egregious outright lies was his claim that inanimate objects like rocks cannot be dated. If he really was a geologist, he would know better. It's true that carbon 14 testing is the most commonly used method for dating organic items - things that once were alive, like plants, animals, and people. But C14 dating only works up to 50,000 years ago. Beyond that time period, other methods are used, based on other elements besides carbon. They can be used for dating rocks, which any geologist knows. One such rock dating method relies on the relationship of the uranium-thorium-lead elements. But there are many other techniques.
This guy creates an imaginative hypothesis and then builds on it with other imaginative hypotheses to create completely unfounded, unsubstantiated conclusions. Then he discounts all disagreements as "closed-minded." This is like Kellyann claiming "alternate facts" and Trump putting down factual journalism as "fake news."
The claims on this video are rubbish.
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