re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

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The racist underpinning of “Ancient Astronauts” claims has been one of my themes for over 30 years. Stonehenge was built at roughly the same time as the Great Pyramids. There are few if any claims of alien origin for it. Nobody claims aliens built Notre Dame, which was built at the same time as the “magical” and “mysterious” Inca stonework that features in so many woo claims. The latter are usually linked to advertising for self help metaphysics or scientifically dubious health care products, for some reason. The quacks might claim that Notre Dame is not credited to aliens because we have comprehensive written records of the society that constructed it. That is no barrier to many other woo claims, though. Remember that we have pretty good records of the society that ran Roswell Army Air Force Base in 1947, but those records have been buried under a mountain of commercial hucksterism.