alt Hacker NewsIt's easy to dismiss the most obvious cases where EvD is wrong
But I think the basic idea, by itself is harder to dismiss
Archeology by itself is always going to have limitations, and there are vast swatches of history we are almost completely ignorant about
EvD is certainly guilty of taking himself much more seriously than the evidence suggests. But there's always going to be that "what if"
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diego_moita • last Sunday at 11:43 PM
> But I think the basic idea, by itself is harder to dismiss
Speak for yourself. I find it very easy to dismiss.
Just as I find easy to dismiss horoscopes, creationism, anti-vaxers, global warming denialism, etc.
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>But I think the basic idea, by itself is harder to dismiss
Its an unproven hypothesis.
It doesnt need to be "dismissed" it needs to be proven. You could make up any number of hypotheses. You wouldnt "dismiss" any of them. If you were interested in one you might design a test to prove it. But failing that its not worth worrying about.
When you write like 49 books trying to convince people of your untested claim, it seems like grifting instead of working towards evidence.