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You expect a journalist to field tech to scan continental shelves? His role is to call attention to unaddressed questions provoked by evidence. It is historian'
by moloch-hai 4y ago
You expect a journalist to field tech to scan continental shelves? His role is to call attention to unaddressed questions provoked by evidence. It is historian's and archaeologists' job to answer them.
- andsoitis 4y agoI was thinking that unless he’s filthy rich from book sales, he could spend time convincing a rich, eccentric. Maybe he has tried.
- GolfPopper 4y agoI think the frustration comes from people who have already asked these questions and provided answers, which he is ignoring in favor of his own speculations.
- moloch-hai 4y agoHe gets attention because they have pointedly avoided addressing the questions, or in cases promoted obvious falsehoods. He speculates, badly, in a vacuum.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoLooking at the surface of the ocean and speculating what may or may not have been below it 10,000 years ago is not journalism. It's storytelling. Do I expect the man to go swimming around the ocean's depths? I have no expectation one way or the other. My only expectation is that, having not done such work, he doesn't claim to have the result of the work he didn't do. I assume GP was thinking similarly.
- RikNieu 4y agoHe DID go swimming around the ocean depths, as best a middle class, middle aged writer could. Look up his book Underworld