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I'm out of the loop, who is the guy?
Ah! The old Lemmaroo!
Hold my Rufus, I'm going in.
We need a switcheroo community so there is something to dive into.
Nah.
Ok, but who's the scientist bloke and what's he claiming?
Earth is flat? Aliens walk among us? Billionaires are lizards?
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.
Ha, now I wanna watch it. Might be fun if you treat it like it's Cunk on Earth.
dude
reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?
His son works for Netflix and got him a show.
nepo reverse-baby, then
It's for emphasis.
Yes but he didn't say reverse nepotism he said reverse nepobaby as it wasn't the parent getting the child a job but the other way round. It's still nepotism but nepobaby is a more specific term.
My man corrected it. Now it says “reverse nepotism baby”
It was never edited lol.
The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.
The word itself comes from from the Italian word for "nephew", because of a trend of "nephews" of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes' illegitimate sons).
They hated him for being an insufferable pedant, more like.
I dunno man I spent a weird amount of time rolling that idea around in my head before even getting to the pedants comment.
Nah I'm with this homie, reverse nepobaby is too made up. It's just regular nepotism. He's a nepot
Reverse nepotism is where your dad goes around to anywhere that might hire you and badmouths you until they won’t.
Wouldn't that be "nepo daddy"
...nepodaddy?
what is reverse nepotism?
YVAN EHT NIOJ
One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.
When you have a famous kid, I'd guess, but I don't know.
the show is fun to watch if you realize it's just him tearing through the strawmen he set up for himself
I want to call him Don Quixote, but that almost feels like a compliment.
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.
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.
My recent favorite is anthropology ignoring all evidence of women hunting because it didn't fit social morals of the researchers. Even finding women buried with shields and weapons and people still making excuses.
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".
Damn minions of orthodoxy, I'll keep my cells from getting bored and then what?
He's like that Aliens history channel meme. He believes in completely made up prehistory theories, like there was an advanced civilization that existed alongside the cavemen. He took too much acid one time in his life and never returned to earth.
There's a few videos on YT about him, particularly about his newest show and reintroduction to an unaware younger audience who isn't familiar with his tricks. I'd suggest potholer54's critique of the episodes, not only for breaking it down on why Hancock is woo crazy, but also reading the comments where lots of times you get defenders trying their own attempts of logic spin. It's funny and sad at the same time.
I hope Keanu isn't a sucker about this stuff. I believes some of Hancock's ideas too once, but to be fair I was like 11. I can only hope he was playing along and every time Hancock mentions a new fact Keanu goes "whoa..."