Posted on 05/17/2018 1:17:07 PM PDT by Gamecock
Transformers actress Megan Fox is producing and starring in a new show on the Travel Channel called Mysteries and Myths with Megan Fox.
The shows goal? To make you question the work of archaeologists, who are really just trying to mask "the truth" of history from us all.
And Fox should know, because she isn't an historian or an archaeologist herself.
"History only gives us a one-sided view of the truth," Fox told Deadline.
"I haven't spent my entire life building a career in academia so I don't have to worry about my reputation or being rebuked by my colleagues, which allows me to push back on the status quo. So much of our history needs to be re-examined."
Archaeologists are less than pleased.
Fox essentially admits that she doesn't want to be proven wrong by any peer review system, somehow believing that that makes her more qualified to seek out and speak the truth.
"To me, this clearly shows she has embraced the idea that professional archaeologists are too narrow-minded to see the truth," David S. Anderson, an archaeologist and expert in debunking pseudoarchaeology, told Inverse.
"It is a touch offensive to the profession, but sadly, it is also a vast misrepresentation of the profession. New ideas are constantly being introduced and debated. The field is very active and flexible; the characterizations of it as narrow-minded are clearly pejorative views that originate outside of the field by those who have little familiarity with what goes on inside of archaeology."
But Fox's complete misunderstanding of archaeology doesn't seem to phase the Travel Channel.
According to a press release from the channel, their completely unqualified host "is embarking on an epic and personal journey" to "re-examine history, asking tough questions and challenging the conventional wisdom that has existed for centuries."
"The series will delve into some of the greatest mysteries of time, including whether Amazon women really existed or if the Trojan War was real," the press release continues.
The new show is fodder for conspiracy theorists and gullible grandparents, seemingly the only people who still watch the Travel Channel.
Even still, archaeologists are becoming increasingly discouraged by the unsubstantiated nonsense being sold as fact on television.
"Things that are very well understood are being upset by people who may not have all the background knowledge, or an agenda or spin, they want to get across," said Dr. Eryn Newman from the ANU Research School of Psychology.
Dr. Newman says that people often see high quality shows like this and assume they must be true.
One of Fox's favorite shows, for instance, is called Ancient Aliens, and it's a conspiracy show that claims to have found evidence for alien life on Earth - evidence that has been covered up by historians, no doubt.
"It is absolutely true that in the past archaeological research and historical narratives have been manipulated for nationalist agendas and worse," Anderson told Inverse.
"As a field, archaeology has actively worked to correct those manipulations. That doesn't mean all of our interpretations today are perfect, but it does mean they're getting better bit by bit."
Anderson says it's "highly dangerous" when people like Fox place zero value in formal education because it places opinion and belief on the same level as fact.
A couple of years ago, Fox even told CosmoGirl that she "just hated school, period."
"I wasn't interested and I wasn't getting anything from it. I've never been a big believer in formal education," she continued.
"To get caught up in something that you don't feel totally right about or that doesn't make sense to you is a really, really bad idea."
Not exactly the sort of person you want re-examining the world's history.
"I'm guessing that if one day Fox needs a root canal, she won't go down the street to the local real estate office to have it done, just as if she needs to sell her house, she won't turn to a dentist," said Dr. Anderson.
More Idiocracy.
Megan Fox’s currency has never been her, um, intellect.
I don’t have any reputation to protect
BWAHAHAHAHA
I’m not saying it was aliens...but it was aliens.
It’s an ENTERTAINMENT show on the Travel Channel.
And the lauded “Scientific Community” has their panties in a bunch over it.
Even a broken clock is correct occasionally.
She’s a hot piece of ass, but clearly as dumb as a rock
Mostly she is known for her thumbs.
Seriously, they are huge.
Actually she would fit in well with most college faculties these days.
*sigh* Celebrities... Is there ANYTHING they don’t know?
Hollywood is repulsive because its filled with repulsive people. We have people without values lecturing to us about values. Enough of the hypocrisy. —goldstategop
The idea of casting couch alumni expounding upon what is outrageous is outrageous.
3 posted on 3/17/2018, 9:42:32 AM by E. Pluribus Unum
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
QUOTES by ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes and Sayings!:
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and sub-literate every time he/she opens his/her mouth.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
she isn’t an historian or an archaeologist herself.
She could break a Nail
Archeology is full of errors and holes, and they all agree on that.
But big tits and mysticism will not get us close to the truth of the human story.
I can't wait for her episode on Themyscira.
-PJ
I’m only here for the pics (and there aren’t any). :(
No, but with the sound off she’s good eye candy on my 80” TV
Megan Fox, on her “education”,
“In the same interview, she mentions that she hated school and has “never been a big believer in formal education” and that “the education I was getting seemed irrelevant. So, I was sort of checked out on that part of it.”
Uh-huh
She left HS at 17 and alleges she “tested out”, whatever that means. Not quite GED material but qualified to comment critically on archeology. Sounds Hollywood legit.
My interest in Megan Fox has nothing to do with her scholastic achievements in the field of Archeology or History.
big tits and mysticism will not get us close to the truth of the human story.
That close is good enough for all practical purposes.
If you like plywood, I guess.
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