Dead by 2012? Glenn Kimball, the Kolbrin Bible and a historic hoax

We will all be dead by 2012, unless we heed the warnings given in the Kolbrin Bible. So claims Glenn Kimball, an “author and educator” from Arizona. The Kolbrin was maintained, says Kimball, by a series of “secret societies” (he doesn’t provide details) after it …

Back to the Stone Age

You are less healthy, less happy and less enlightened than a prehistoric hunter-gatherer. At least, that’s what Steve Taylor, author of The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of a New Era, thinks. Does your life feel empty? Do …

Why China loves Gavin Menzies’ drivel

The Telegraph website has allowed me to have a go at Gavin Menzies, author of two fatuous books of Chinese “history”: 1421, claiming that China discovered New Zealand and Greenland in the 15th century, and 1434, claiming that it kick-started the Italian Renaissance. Here’s part …

The truth about Jack the Ripper! (Yeah, right)

Yet another “retired murder detective” is unveiling the truth about Jack the Ripper – and, once again, the BBC is giving him uncritical coverage, reporting it as “news”. Trevor Marriott reckons that Jack the Ripper may have struck 25 years before the 1888 Whitechapel murders: …

A ‘pilgrim’ writes

Oh no! We’ve upset Echan Deravy (see below). He’s interrupted his “earth pilgrimage” to send us this message: Thanks for the coverage guys! Now I am evolved! Now I am scientifically credible! Whoopee from Tokyo. Ain’t you smart! But where is there heart in all …

Hancock spreads the message of Mayan doomsday in 2012

Graham Hancock has exciting news. His “author of the month” for September will be Patrick Geryl, who believes that the apocalypse supposedly prophesied by the Mayans in 2012 will indeed engulf us all. Here’s Patrick: In How to survive 2012? I reveal the immense cataclysm that …

Free publicity for ‘1434′

Sad to see the Daily Telegraph devoting a whole page to an interview with Gavin Menzies, not least because it seems unkind to encourage the old boy’s delusions of grandeur. Note the headline: “Mad as a snake – or a visionary?” This is how counterknowledge …

The greatest story ever told?

“This is the sun.” So begins Part One of Zeitgeist. Like Part Two, it is about the “lies” that are forced on us by authority – only in this case, the authority is Christianity. First, we are given a history of sun-worship by the chilled-out …