Hancock is clever in that he works around a core idea that’s genuinely plausible and effectively impossible to disprove[1] he takes the idea, and wraps it up i

Hancock is clever in that he works around a core idea that’s genuinely plausible and effectively impossible to disprove[1] he takes the idea, and wraps it up in dramatic, grandiose language with an us-vs-the-establishment twang, adds a few extremely tenuous pieces of evidence, and sells it to the public lots (most?) of these pieces of “evidence” are just geological/archaeological monuments conveniently located in exotic holiday destinations that he can get people to pay him to go and "study" - i.e. stand in front of and make ostentatiously-phrased claims, while presumably making diligent use of the 5-star resorts in the area it’s a clever con, with little to no real harm, and I applaud him for it. Robert Schoch has taken a similar route, presumably realising that there's a lot more money in his PhD from broaching these ideas with the public than there is in analysing rocks [1] - this being the idea that civilisation goes back [a lot] further than our current understanding suggests