Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction
I&#x27;m a big fan of Hancock but also work with professional archeologists (though I am not one myself). I regularly read &quot;kooky&quot; topics as well as established science papers and monographs. To my eye, none of this should be this confounding -- yet it&#x27;s festering into a culture war battle. Let&#x27;s all chill out, not take ourselves too seriously, and just fine-tune the epistemic status of entertainment-level Netflix shows like this. Yes, Hancock is highly speculative and isn&#x27;t doing archeology. He&#x27;s also not a white supremacist either as many academics claim (the &quot;canceling&quot; part of his gripe). But let&#x27;s not pretend that there is evidence for Atlantis either. For some reason this particular show is aggravating academics in a way the million Ancient Aliens and UFO shows didn&#x27;t.