Reverse nepotism baby that wants to play archaeologist on Netflix. He’s also extremely paranoid that “big archaeology” (lmao) is out to get him because he cannot handle criticism from people that know what they’re talking about. Tldr weirdo on Netflix that thinks he’s a martyr.
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scrooge@infosec.pub 5 days ago
I’m out of the loop, who is the guy?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 days ago
norimee@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 5 days ago
“And on this grand battlefield, the Aliens had their first successful battle against protonapoleon.”
where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
dude
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 days ago
reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 days ago
His son works for Netflix and got him a show.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wouldn’t that be “nepo daddy”
mobius_slip@beehaw.org 4 days ago
…nepodaddy?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
what is reverse nepotism?
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 5 days ago
msitopen esrever
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
YVAN EHT NIOJ
leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.
jack@hexbear.net 5 days ago
His daughter is a Netflix producer or something
essteeyou@lemmy.world 5 days ago
When you have a famous kid, I’d guess, but I don’t know.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
the show is fun to watch if you realize it’s just him tearing through the strawmen he set up for himself
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 days ago
I want to call him Don Quixote, but that almost feels like a compliment.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ancient Aliens is fun because the crazy people are so excited and engaged. They promote willful ignorance and antiscience stuff too, but at least we got Stargate out of the ancient astronaut malarky.
This guy is boring and smugly antiscience. When the show came out, before I knew who he was and without warching a preview, it seemed like it was going to be about ancient cultures that atalled because of climate change or something along those lines. Nope, took a hard left into stupid territory.
It is frustrating that these jerks ruin actual discussion about ancient cultures being older than we think. Especially when we keep finding older evidence of innovation or oceanic travel that double our estimates on the earliest examples. Like there had to be a significant period of human innovation prior to the oldest sites we know of with massive stone megaliths. The smaller pieces are just harder to find, or may not be recognizeable as intentionally carved!
slickgoat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
servobobo@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Quacks get banned/shunned because they’re usually obnoxious and abusive, not because they hold fringe ideas. If it was only the latter they’d fit right in in most fields.
slickgoat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You will have to point out where he was obnoxious or abusive. I’ve not seen either of these traits from watching the show.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 days ago
My recent favorite is anthropology ignoring all evidence of women hunting because it didn’t fit social morals of the researchers.
slickgoat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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”.
frezik@midwest.social 5 days ago
Damn minions of orthodoxy, I’ll keep my cells from getting bored and then what?
Lobreeze@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Such a strange episode
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Keanu Reeves is an actor who has starred in a number of popular movies including Speed, The Matrix, and John Wick. He is revered in the online community for being a wholesome person who tends to do the better thing, or at least avoids being terrible.
So if he is actually supports the charlatan who made this series then that would be disappointing.
MagicShel@programming.dev 5 days ago
Ah! The old Lemmaroo!
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Hold my Rufus, I’m going in.
MagicShel@programming.dev 5 days ago
We need a switcheroo community so there is something to dive into.
obinice@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ok, but who’s the scientist bloke and what’s he claiming?
Earth is flat? Aliens walk among us? Billionaires are lizards?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 days ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Apocalypse