The idea that multiple people have flood myths and therefore they must have a common origin just fundamentally denies the fact that floods happen most places around the world. There are all these myths of white races coming somehow from europe or elsewhere and building them and that later the indigenous people chased off in their inherent savagery. That's the excuse that andrew jackson gave for removing indigenous people to the west of the mrs. cipi, he said it was okay to remove indigenous people because it wasn't their land it was mound builder land like this is old 19th and 18th century racist ideology uh and he's reusing it. He doesn't ever stop and think where these ideas
On this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, recorded on May 17, we discuss the pop culture phenomenon and appeal of pseudoarchaeology in its many forms, from fraudulent alternative history books like Erich von Däniken's 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, to television series like "Ancient Aliens" and "Ancient Apocalypse."
Alongside guest Dr. David S. Anderson, we discuss how phony "what if?" theories often go beyond the goofy, guilty pleasure premises of extraterrestrial visitors and lost civilizations to promote Eurocentric, racist pap and a mindless distrust of "the scientific establishment" in the stupidest and least productive way possible.