31st January 2012, 10:36 PM
quintaine Wrote:In archaeologists' eyes these cranks are always hippies, free thinkers, radicals, lefties and gullible.Um, I'm an archaeologist(in training atm) and lived as a New Traveller for over 10 years(which would probably class me as a hippy in most people's eyes), a free thinker, radical, and am pretty damn left wing. I still give short shrift to "just suppose" type ideas. If a hypothesis doesn't have either evidence or sound theory to back it up then it is of little use. And by 'sound theory' I mean based on evidence.*
But just because I've lived in a tree next to a stone circle and think capitalism is a blight on our species doesn't mean I'm going to give credence to some muppet who claims a mountain is a pyramid, that the Mayans predicted the end of the world in December, that the Chinese visited Italy in the renaissance or that there was some link between pyramid builders on different sides of the world. Aside that is from them being human and therefore rather good at problem solving.
*Does this mean that, in your eyes, I am displaying false consciousness and that truly I should throw my lot in with the crystal gazers?
