5 Myths Everybody Believed For Far Too Long

Rasputin’s Reputation For Being Hard To Kill Was A PR Stunt

4 thoughts on “5 Myths Everybody Believed For Far Too Long

    1. You’ve probably noticed that I used to link to 75% of their articles and that has gradually dwindled down to 25%. There have been many days when I considered deleting them from my bookmarks, but then one of their authors comes up with something that enlightens or entertains me, so I dither and procrastinate about that deletion, but it’s probably inevitable.

  1. Whoever they use as their consultant on anthropology needs to be fired, because they’re clearly incompetent. This is the third time I’ve seen them publish utter hogwash on paleolithic studies. (The most glaring failure was their advocacy for the insane Solutrean Hypothesis, although I think that had to do with the article writer being 19 and his source for the claim being his own rather cranky college professor.)

    If you can’t spot the BS, try this alternative phrasing:

    “Nearly 2% of residents of North America are partially descended from Native American populations, so clearly there was no active genocide committed by the invading Europeans.” (There’s no claim of superiority/inferiority there, but if I don’t have to spell it out for you I think the claim of Neanderthal intellectualism is politically correct wishful thinking taken to ludicrous extremes.)

    Of course, cultural anthropology is basically a pseudoscience, but the guys digging the bones aspire to some level of scientific rigor.

  2. That was a good article. I don’t read Cracked nearly as much as I used to, but that one was worth reading. Thanks for linking to it.

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