Megan Fox Thinks Archaeologists Are Too Narrow Minded to Understand History

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.

"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."

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."

"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.

” ‘Motel of the Mysteries’ ... It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of USA has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe ...” [Scarpetta, post 34]

It’s been said that parody is no longer possible. Might be true.

For those who still yearn to find humor in our situation:

“The Weans” by Robert Nathan (Kopf, 1960; ISBN-10: 394451287, ISBN-13: 978-0394451282)

“A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age” edited by Robert A Baker (Prentice Hall, 1982; ISBN-10: 0138526087, ISBN-13: 978-0138526085)

http://jir.com/ (The Journal of Irreproducible Results: The Science Humor Magazine)

Megan’s Response to You:

Atlantis was real. ==> Of course its real. It is located in the Bahamas.

Jews aren’t really from the Middle East. ==> I thought they were concentrated in Auschwitz.

Sub Saharan Africans invented math. ==> Modern Humans originated in Africa and I’m sure early Africans counted on their fingers.

Cleopatra was black. ==> Well Egypt is in Africa.

Shakespeare was a woman. ==> Everyone knows Mary Sidney Herbert wrote MacBeth and Hamlet.

Beethoven was black. ==> I thought Beethoven was a St. Bernard.

Did I miss anything? ==> Nope.

“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 means you can then spout YOUR rubbish to get ratings instead ???

I dont get cable tv, but seeing its content while visiting relatives I was struck that ‘the History Channel’ was doing little but showing crap like UFO investigation history and such other ratings rubbish (I guess all the REAL history wore out, having been been played repeatedly for the last 30 odd years).

So TV is largely whoring anyway — showing off the glittery bits (or controversy mongering) and now ‘the conspiracy of archeologists’ ...

Going to odd places and digging stuff up is only the start of the process. New evidence (much archeological evidence frequently being spotty and rare much of the time ) is fit into other evidence over decades and even then only offers a shadow of what happened in the past.

Its understood. We don’t need some philistine mouthing off for their 15 minutes of fame to promote their ratings rubbish to make a buck.

Inside scoop- A farmer discovered timbers that state archaeologists determined to be of Viking origin. It was too far south for the timbers to be of Viking construction, so the state arch`s covered it up and suppressed the report... 3 sites were found in the mountains by the locals. It was determined by the arch`s that the sites were of Celtic origin. This too was covered up. This info is from my friend at the state archaeology dept. Stuff like this goes on all the time because it would upset their history agenda. I kid you not.
A 5,000 year old “Native American” site was discovered during EPA investigations of my friend`s farm only 1/4 mile from my farm. I went out to investigate as the state archaeologists had it all flagged off with tiny flags. I stopped and asked an archaeologist at the site what a particular flag was for. He said to me, “Oh, thats the end of a stone wall we found. “ I replied, A stone wall?” He said, “yes”. I asked him “How long is it?”
He said, “We determined it goes all the wall to that mountain.” The mountain was over a mile away. What “Native American” builds a wall over a mile long? This site was never released by the state arch`s to the public. I asked for it but they said it wasn`t available. I know of no Indians in this whole state that built mile long stone walls 5000 years ago. Less than 1/4 mile away a local bulldozer was on a mountain clearing the soil down to bedrock for a road. The bulldozer operator uncovered by accident a series of sundials, elephants, and starmaps carved into the bedrock. This bedrock was under 6 feet of soil. The operator took pictures of the sundials, etc. before covering them up again. The carvings were not disturbed. This incident was not reported to the state archaeologists because the locals had seen their suppressive actions before.
A town construction crew was installing a series of roads and sidewalks near a river. They dug down 12 feet to test the
soil and bedrock. They dug up a series of stone blocks which contained a carving a of a panache-helmeted man. This too was not reported to the state arch`s. Photos were taken of these carvings by the locals. There is an island fort in a river south of here which was claimed aimed to have been built by the Spanish by the state arch`s. But the local Indian tribes said that it was there before their ancestors arrived. This was confirmed by a Dutch account in 1629 of finding the fortress and the Indian accounts were recorded by the Dutch. However, to this very day the state arch`s keep suppressing the truth and claim it was built by the Spanish. The French arrived here in the 1700`s. They wanted to build a fort. They asked the Abenakis, their allies, where there was a good source of hard stone they could cut for the fort. “Come with us, the Abenakis said. “We will show you 2 places were the cliff has been blown out already.” These blocks were on a 1759 British map. The rockpile of cut blocks existed until the 1950`s. I climbed over them when I was a kid. They were at least 6- 8 feet long by 3-4 feet wide nearly perfect right angles with no cutting chip marks, like giant ice cubes.. Some of the houses here have these stone blocks as foundations which I saw . I kid you not. A stele 6 feet high surrounded by large flat stones 6 feet long with carvings of dolphins and symbols was discovered by local on the bank of a river. Pictures were taken and it was never reported to the arch`s. All kinds of stuff like this.

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