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 …
Here’s literature from a radical New Age healer who’s made some pretty radical discoveries. “We are energetic beings. Numerous energetic processes in us, on which all the functions of our body are dependent upon, are caused by the energy of the higher source (cosmic energy, …
“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 …
The YouTube video Loose Change, which promulgates well-trodden 9/11 conspiracy theories, has been without a rival since its 2005 inception. Even George Monbiot was engrossed for a time by the video’s “calm and authoritative voiceover” – a voiceover which, its filmmakers claim, has been heard …
Here is my review in today’s London Evening Standard of 1434, the sequel to Gavin Menzies’ 1421, a piece of pseudohistorical garbage which claimed that Chinese fleets discovered America and Australia in the 1420s. This time round, the Chinese have “ignited the Renaissance”. Sick-bags at …
According to the BBC, the mystery of the collapse of Tower Seven on September 11, 2001, is about to be cleared up. And the solution is discouraging news for 9/11 Liars (aka “Truthers”). America’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has spent two years constructing …
In 2000, Holocaust denial took a bashing when Deborah Lipstadt defeated the psuedohistorian David Irving in an English court. Irving had accused Lipstadt of libel after her book, Denying the Holocaust, was published in Britain. He had been specified as a Holocaust denier, so decided …
It’s convenient for the Arab world to dismiss the Holocaust as a Zionist conspiracy. It’s easy, too, when accurate information about the Holocaust is so difficult to obtain in Arab societies. Robert Satloff, author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach …
Hitler was wrong. The Nazi idea of a ‘pure’ Nordic race, new evidence shows, was pure fancy. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a 2000 year-old burial site containing the remains of a man “who appears to be of arabian origin”. The evidence …
Iran’s media certainly has a talent for spotting, and then spreading, counterknowledge. Press TV is the state-funded English language news channel based in Tehran. Founded last year, one of its aims is to “heed the often neglected voices and perspectives of a great portion of …