05-20-2014, 06:35 PM
Ancient Astronauts came from the stars
and encountered our primitive race,
Now researchers find evidence
Sitchin was first on their case.
Sitchin's a swindler and Von Daniken's a fraud,
pseudo-scientists fleece a primitive race of sheep;
ancient astronauts crash in flimsy chariots of the gods.
Sitchin's ideas have been rejected by scientists and academics, who dismiss his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory. His work has been criticized for flawed methodology and mistranslations of ancient texts as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific claims.
-Carroll, Robert T "The Skeptic's Dictionary".
That writing as careless as von Däniken's, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times. I also hope for the continuing popularity of books like Chariots of the Gods? in high school and college logic courses, as object lessons in sloppy thinking. I know of no recent books so riddled with logical and factual errors as the works of von Däniken.
—Carl Sagan, Foreword to The Space Gods Revealed
and encountered our primitive race,
Now researchers find evidence
Sitchin was first on their case.
Sitchin's a swindler and Von Daniken's a fraud,
pseudo-scientists fleece a primitive race of sheep;
ancient astronauts crash in flimsy chariots of the gods.
Sitchin's ideas have been rejected by scientists and academics, who dismiss his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory. His work has been criticized for flawed methodology and mistranslations of ancient texts as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific claims.
-Carroll, Robert T "The Skeptic's Dictionary".
That writing as careless as von Däniken's, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times. I also hope for the continuing popularity of books like Chariots of the Gods? in high school and college logic courses, as object lessons in sloppy thinking. I know of no recent books so riddled with logical and factual errors as the works of von Däniken.
—Carl Sagan, Foreword to The Space Gods Revealed
My new watercolor: 'Nightmare After Christmas'/Chris