Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction
I'm a big fan of Hancock but also work with professional archeologists (though I am not one myself). I regularly read "kooky" topics as well as established science papers and monographs. To my eye, none of this should be this confounding -- yet it's festering into a culture war battle. Let'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't doing archeology. He's also not a white supremacist either as many academics claim (the "canceling" part of his gripe). But let'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't.