YouTuber Professor Dave Explains, recently called out an error-filled video made by pseudo-historian Dan Richards, and asserted Dan would never retract the video’s central claim. I felt obliged to comment that Dan has retracted that claim. Dave disagrees on very specific grounds, and I think he does have a case, but it really depends on …
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The Ishango and Lebombo Bones are archaeological artifacts from the Paleolithic era, dating between 22,000 and 44,000 years ago. Ever since the bones were found, there has been considerable professional debate over the meaning of their markings. A common claim is that they are ancient calculators. But how likely is this? Sources Apostolou, Nicholas, and …
A popular internet meme claims Esther Jones, a famous black performer, was unethically exploited when cartoonist Max Fleischer invented the cartoon character Betty Boop, based on Jones’ image and singing style. The meme also claims Esther Jones spent years unsuccessfully trying to win back her legal rights to the image. But the “black Betty Boop” …
Journalist Shabnam Nasimi claim that European math and science discoveries are memorialised with individual names, while “when someone from India, Persia, or the Muslim world discovers the exact same thing, we just give it a boring generic name”. This video demonstrates Nasimi’s claim is untrue; non-European science & math discoveries erased are not erased. Media …
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Alternate historian Dan Richards runs the Youtube channel DeDunking. In his video “Archaeologist John Hoopes Corrupts Wikipedia”, Dan claims Hoopes has selectively edited Wikipedia pages to make them biased. In particular, he claims Hoopes has corrupted the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis page. But did Hoopes really corrupt this Wikipedia page? I investigated Dan’s claims, and …
Megalithic Mysteries is a Twitter account and YouTube channel promoting pseudo-archaeology. In these videos I expose his fake Incan history claims. Media credits la, 1539-1616, Vega, Garcilaso de. English: Title Page of Garcilaso de La Vega’s La Florida Del Ynca (Lisbon, 1605), 1605. John Carter Brown Library Location Providence , United States Coordinates 41° 49′ 34.2″ N, 71° 24′ 11.7″ W …
In this video I’d like to thank you for helping me reach 25,000 subscribers, and I’ll answer various questions you’ve asked me. Among other subjects, I’ll be explaining why I don’t monetize my videos or accept sponsorships. It seems that 25,000 subscribers is a milestone on YouTube, and I’ve received my first serious offer of …
This interview with law professor and public historian Evan Gelobter, owner of the YouTube channel Southern Slavery Uncovered, explains how the antebellum South was a slavocracy based on legalized white supremacy. The Southern states were not simply states with slavery, they were slave societies which justified their existence specifically through legalized white supremacy. Media credits …
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Is Atlantis hunting racist? Is Graham Hancock racist? Self-described alternative historian Dan Richards of the YouTube channel DeDunking objects to the fact that people who believe Atlantis was a real historical place are often associated with racism. He claims modern Atlantis hunting emerged as a very progressive endeavor, unassociated with colonisation. In this video I …
Graham Hancock is a former journalist who writes in support of his ideas about Atlantis. Dan Richards, of the DeDunking YouTube channel, recognizes that Hancock’s work has errors, but attempts to mitigate this by arguing that in some cases Hancock was misled by views which were perfectly acceptable at the time he was writing his …
