[PatrickHenry]

Excellent job. The ten tribes are an interesting (although relatively minor) question of history, but when one particular theory about them is enthusiastically embraced only by groups of a questionable nature, it is a strong signal for the rest of us to use caution regarding such "research." If mainstream historians and archaeologists ever accept these notions, that will be different. But for now, such notions seem to be part of the agenda of an oddball few with a dubious reputation. Perhaps "junk science" is too kind a term for such material.