{"id":1187,"date":"2025-08-06T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:46:12","slug":"graham-hancock-is-bad-at-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/graham-hancock-is-bad-at-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Hancock is bad at research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u2019s 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 books, and were even mainstream views in academia. In this video<\/a> I show how Dan is wrong, and how Hancock is bad at research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\u2019s 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 … <\/p>\n

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