Breaking: Writer (and consulting producer of said show) approves TV-show based on his books. 
https://twitter.com/AncientAliens/status/1142567370549915648 …
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@JasonColavito on "The Astonishing Racial Claims of Erich von Daniken": http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-astonishing-racial-claims-of-erich-von-daniken …Show this thread -
And here is
@ArchyFantasies "In Search of Sanity, er, I mean Aliens…"https://archyfantasies.com/in-search-of-sanity-er-i-mean-aliens …Show this thread -
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@ahtzib's review on "The Ancient Alien Question":https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/the-ancient-alien-question-a-new-inquiry-into-the-existence-evidence-and-influence-of-ancient-visitors-philip-coppens-2012-new-page-books-pompton-plains-nj-320-pp-1995-paperback-isbn-9781601631985/9763F15502C913E0D4D68F8B0EDF9F0D …Show this thread -
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@captain_primate collected material from his "Pseudoarchaeology" class: http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp364-fs15/about-the-class …Show this thread -
Here's
@fiftysitesbook "Debunking Ancient Aliens, The Book of Mormon and other Bullshit Archaeological Claims" at @MythicistMKE's You Tube channel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQm0dQWo53w …Show this thread -
And here is Christopher Heany's
@TheAtlantic piece on "The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes":https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-to-fake-an-alien-mummy/535251 …Show this thread -
This is @bones_canada discussing "Pseudoarchaeology" with
@ArchyFantasies:https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/iia/47Show this thread -
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@SarahEBond is demonstrating "The Racism Behind Ancient Aliens":https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens …Show this thread -
This is
@DSAArchaeology "Debunking Ancient Aliens" with@digi_hammurabi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDuYJYK2TpQ …Show this thread -
We do not think people who believe that we have been visited by beings from outer space are all dumb. But we do believe shows like "Ancient Aliens" manipulate and underestimate their audience, selling them racist conspiracy theories as 'out of the box' thinking.
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On a related note this documentary quite colourful may illustrate (depending on your German) the racism behind many pseudoarchaeological narratives. It‘s actually quite shocking (spoiler: it isn‘t) how many of these ideas are still tossed around.https://twitter.com/jens2go/status/1142719146997747712?s=21 …
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