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#961 - Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson & Michael Shermer

May 16, 20173:35:09
Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock

Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British author known for promoting pseudoscientific explanations of ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands. Hancock argues that an advanced society with spiritual technology thrived during the last Ice Age until comet impacts triggered the Younger Dryas about 12,900 years ago. He maintains that survivors of the disaster shared their knowledge with hunter-gatherer communities in regions such as ancient Egypt, Sumer, and Mesoamerica, sparking the earliest known civilizations. Born in Edinburgh, Hancock studied sociology at Durham University before joining British newspapers and magazines as a journalist. His first three books examined international development, including Lords of Poverty (1989), a well-received critique of corruption in the aid system.

Randall Carlson
Randall Carlson

Randall Carlson is an architectural designer, geological researcher, and "renegade scholar" best known for his theories on ancient civilizations and catastrophic earth history. He has gained significant public attention through multiple appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience and as a featured expert in the Netflix docuseries Ancient Apocalypse.

Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer

Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The author of over a dozen books, Shermer is known for engaging in debates on pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism. Shermer was the co-producer and co-host of Exploring the Unknown, a 13-hour Fox Family television series broadcast in 1999. From April 2001 to January 2019, he contributed a monthly Skeptic column to Scientific American magazine. Shermer was raised in a non-religious household, before converting to Christian fundamentalism as a teenager.

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Graham Hancock is an English author and journalist, well known for books such as "Fingerprints Of The Gods" & his latest book "Magicians of the Gods". Randall Carlson is a master builder and architectural designer, teacher, geometrician, geomythologist, geological explorer and renegade scholar. Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic.

Books mentioned

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, Volume 1)
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Fingerprints of the Gods
Food of the Gods
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft
Magicians of the Gods
The Book of Enoch
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Timaeus and Critias (Atlantis)
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
unspecified book (In Search of Ancient Astronomies shown)
Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History
Origins of the Sphinx: Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization
Path of the Pole
Plato Never Lied: Atlantis Is In Indonesia
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
The 12th Planet: Book I of the Earth Chronicles

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