Unfortunately, leaving pseudo-archaeologists to spread their scams uncommented leaves the general public thinking that they really have something, or archaeologists would call them on their bullshit. Also, without popular education on the topic, the general public doesn't know enough to recognize the bullshit.
Hell, Daniken sounded plausible when I was a teenager! (I really wanted to believe in UFOs, too.) Only since then have I learned enough to know how much bullshit he was spewing. (Ditto for the UFO nuts, too--though in their case, it was being willfully blind to the fact that they "just happened" to see the most UFOs and hear the largest number of implausible government excuses for them around top secret military testing grounds! Gee, I wonder why that was?? *looks at SR-71 and F-117 and whistles innocently*)
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Date: 2010-04-01 01:31 pm (UTC)Hell, Daniken sounded plausible when I was a teenager! (I really wanted to believe in UFOs, too.) Only since then have I learned enough to know how much bullshit he was spewing. (Ditto for the UFO nuts, too--though in their case, it was being willfully blind to the fact that they "just happened" to see the most UFOs and hear the largest number of implausible government excuses for them around top secret military testing grounds! Gee, I wonder why that was?? *looks at SR-71 and F-117 and whistles innocently*)