Academics Are Already Buying Into the Existing Model of the Past

I was arguing that the whole field of history and archaeology may have got the origins of civilization completely wrong. And at a personal gut level that was taken by many academics as a direct attack on them and their place in the world. I think that's fundamentally why academics reacted to me in the way that they did. Now the counter attacks on me would never have happened if my book had been a failure. There's lots of books of alternative history that say radical things, but most of them don't appear above the radar. This one did appear above the Radar. As a result, there was a concerted effort made to discredit me. And that is a bit of a conspiracy. When you