I would say that you continue to litigate a point that I never made in the first place. I have no opinion about the rights or wrongs of Hancock’s theories/claims. My entire point - my only point - is that if he is making entertainment, so what? Not allowing him to film in national parks because it offends science is wrong on so many levels.

Lastly, I didn’t ask you to chime in, so I’m not bothered if you beg off. See ya!

As you like.

Sounds like a whole lot of butthurt to me?

Science isn’t perfect either, a fact which scientists tend to push under the rug.

I’m an old fart, so I can remember the great scientific scare campaign of the 1970. Global cooling. It didn’t come from the great unwashed masses either, it can from professional researchers in white coats and worried brows. They got it wrong, and contributed to the beginnings of scientific distrust we have today.

Spare me the whole diatribe about intellectual fraud. You guys need to get your act together and communicate better rather than just sit in the friggin clouds and tut tut against the hoi polloi.

So criticise Hancock’s theories. Nobody is saying that archeologists can’t do that scientifically.

What I’m suggesting is that acting all butthurt when confronted with alternate theories and banning amateurs from entering the field is akin to protecting the priesthood.

Once again, not defending Hancock’s ideas, but I’m being critical of science’s reaction to them. Anyway, you guys are not very adroit in doing so. We are about to start watching the third season and he’s using your actions to fuel the fire.

Very good explanation, and I respect your point of view.

Even with that in hand, scientists can still be sometimes too precious. Being the official and truth holder of all things can also keep gifted amateurs out of the running. I’m not anti-science, I’m a fan. There is a long history of professionals jealousy guarding a patch that is not necessarily always ethical.

Anyway, that is the exception.

You will have to point out where he was obnoxious or abusive. I’ve not seen either of these traits from watching the show.

That’s a good example. Another is from my country, Australia. The idea that the Aborigines were just nomad hunter gatherers was seriously upset by the discovered fish farming settlements in the north of the country as well as the remains of basic stone buildings. Settler farmers have been destroying the evidence of these artifacts for 150 years because they upset the politics of “peaceful European settlement”.

Don’t have a boat in this race, but banning him from otherwise open historical sites because they don’t like his ideas is not scientific, but more like the mediaeval Catholic church.

Science is full of bigoted thinking as any other discipline. If you don’t already know this, you have never met a scientist.

Having said all that, it is a silly idea, but I enjoy the incidental geology that he employs to illustrate his argument. Not that I buy into the argument itself.

Feared by world leaders? They think Trump’s a joke. He’s literally Putin’s patsy.

There is an old saying that a terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but not an airforce to drop it.

I think that it’s about 50 or so days till the election. I’m not even American and it’s so goddamned exhausting.

Make them elected and dark money will guarantee that the self-same bastards are elected. You think that democracy is a roadblock to these people?

Not surprised that it happened, shocked that the story got out.

Sorry Feller, you lost me. Enjoy your vote.

Jesus, man, where have you been hiding the last nine years?

You might as well vote for Trump and do it clean, because that’s all you are helping.

Look, I’m on your side. I’ve been against US shitty dealings forever. Iraq, Palestine, favoured treatment towards Israel, meddling in elections, overturned democratic governments, proxy wars… All of it. But Trump is an existential threat. If the house is burning down you don’t worry about weeds in the fricken garden. If Trump gets in again Palestine is going to turn into a Walmart carpark. It will probably become Israeli territory, officially, and Arab blood will flow accordingly.

It’s a shitty choice, but the real world is not like the movies. Voting for a third candidate and making Trump president won’t help anyone.

Well, I think those is your options? Or not vote at all.

You are free to vote for Trump then. I’m told many are.

You must have missed the bit where Trump constantly says that he’s the best friend Israel ever had. I mean constantly.

I’m sure that won’t translate to arms supply. Possibly fruit baskets?

Voting also brings people like Trump into play. How do you think that will play out with Palestine should he get in again?

Look, it does actually work in Western Europe, the UK, Australia and NZ. All this talk that it can’t work is plainly wrong.

What is impossible to get around is American exceptionalism. People just can’t conceive that other systems might be better. Fine. I apologise for suggesting otherwise. Enjoy.