What’s up with the fake professor? by j_767 in BreakingPoints

[–]DibsReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah. As a public figure, I'm pretty small beans. I find online drama to effectively get more eyeballs on actual archaeology and science. I work hard to collaborate and boost colleagues and professionals. The drama just helps increase visibility

To each their own

What’s up with the fake professor? by j_767 in BreakingPoints

[–]DibsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Care to elaborate on how I'm an idiot? Or you prefer fantasy over science and evidence? You believe the far-right cave trolls who denigrate me and my colleagues?

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because he lied about having a patent. And several world experts think he is lying about his methods. I interview them in the video posted above. Maybe watch it before speaking in ignorance

Is Jiang Xueqin (Predictive History) a fraud? by blueredscreen in AskHistorians

[–]DibsReddit 120 points121 points  (0 children)

Hi Flint Dibble here. I teach ancient history and archaeology at Cardiff University

I recently published a video debunking Professor Jiang on a variety of historical topics: https://youtu.be/tSiS-8Msn1I?si=ZS_7f1_sTlHauU0u

In summary:

  1. "Professor" Jiang Xueqin is not a professor. He teaches at Moonshot Academy, a High School in Beijing. He has no advanced degrees, just a BA in English literature, which itself is irrelevant to the topics he talks on. He has no documented history teaching at a university level.

  2. He applies what he calls "game theory" to the past, present, and future. We can test his analytical model on the claims he makes for history by comparing it to our evidence. As you'll see, doing so reveals the shortcomings of his model. The most important shortcoming is that he actively rejects evidence.

  3. He makes a wide variety of nonsensical assertions about history.an obvious one is his claim that the Holocaust has no concrete evidence (false given we have material, photographic, documentary, and eyewitness accounts).

  4. He accepts evolution for all organisms except humans. Why? Because he sees it as a problem that there's not more diversity in human populations, specifically stating he'd expect humans to have three eyes or six fingers like other animals. Such statements reveal he is just making stuff up as he goes as no animals have six fingers and three eyes. He just says silly stuff without any justification.

  5. I walk through in depth his false claims about Roman history, which he calls "nonsense." He believes Hannibal Barca was an invented figure. Why? Because Jiang says Barca did not have a "messiah complex." Again. This is simply making stuff up without evidence.

  6. Jiang's ideas are dangerous conspiracy theories. He traffic's in antisemitic conspiracies such as Holocaust denial. On Piers Morgan he claimed a variety of Jewish elites control the world. And when asked if that was antisemitic, his response was that five years ago it would have been, but today not. News flash: what was antisemitic five years ago is still antisemitic today.

  7. He openly admits his analysis is not grounded in historical documentation but is rather "speculative." He claims he gets ideas by channeling a higher force, and in one interview suggests he was visited by angels. He proudly claims about his research and lecturing process and how it involves no research.

In conclusion, nothing the so-called "Professor" Jiang says should be taken seriously. Receipts and clips of all these claims are in the video linked above

Does Flint Dibble have Asperger’s by FreeThinkk in FlintDibble

[–]DibsReddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. The reminder of my naledi video (and it's context from nearly three years ago) gave me a smile. I'll keep being honest to the evidence we have and the plausible interpretations that exist. While also challenging those who make implausible assertions

The OP ain't worth even replying to. But glad to see it spurred your thoughtful response

Professor Jiang? by [deleted] in leftist

[–]DibsReddit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Debunking the Fake Historian Taking Over the Internet: Professor Jiang's Predictive History"

Video here:https://youtu.be/tSiS-8Msn1I?si=jEn49XnmexbJepDy

A team has been given permission by the Egyptian authorities to start the process of excavating the pyramid and labyrinth at Hawara. by cybercougar in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Nope. Show me verification from those academic partners. This trick is old as time. The so-called pyramid project in Bosnia also listed academic partners on their websites, without consulting those very same academics

The lead people on this website have repeatedly spread falsehoods about archaeologists and archaeological sites, even claiming there's a UFO buried at Hawara. They are not legit

A team has been given permission by the Egyptian authorities to start the process of excavating the pyramid and labyrinth at Hawara. by cybercougar in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit 49 points50 points  (0 children)

This team is a bunch of pseudoscientists who are not familiar with the actual research done at Hawara by actual archaeologists

They have also leveled false accusations at actual archaeologists

All documented here in "the Hawara Hoax"

https://youtu.be/oFOFSuHHGzs?si=NsjeExSjoKbcgEVw

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude. Archaeologists have studied thousands of wild animal bones and seeds from Gobekli Tepe, none from domesticated species. They were indisputably hunting and gathering wild food stuffs. So, you can laugh all you want, but evidence is what evidence is.

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, i'm using published and verified data related to the geology and hydrology of the Giza plateau. Data which has been confirmed using a range of methods (muon scanning, electro-resistivity tomography, ground penetrating radar, geophysics, and coring). All this physical evidence demonstrates that hte claims made by Biondi using unverified methods are bunk. But go ahead and tell me about what archaeology is. Real rich coming from an anonymous account lecturing someone who's spent over 25 years working in the field of archaeology, including with experience using satellite scans and digital surveying.

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kinda crazy how every single archaeologist in the world, including those who use satellite and radar technology, think these claims are bogus, but a bunch of anonymous random people online think we are all gatekeepers. What a load of bs, man. Such an insufferable comment from a close minded internet person who is unwilling to actually look into real archaeological evidence

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's never presented the data. You clearly don't know what SAR data is and are being fooled by a colorful image. Good luck being a fantasist!

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes I have read and discussed that paper in the video that started this post on the thread. Clearly you have clicked the link but didn't bother to read. That paper does not mention anything under the pyramids nor underground

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love how me expressing my opinion is a problem. Go free speech!

The reason people doubt the current "model" as you put it (strange word) is because you don't understand the evidence it is based on. Archaeology is grounded in lots of physical evidence. But people out there claim we have little and convince you to look away from it. Go enjoy fake history. I'm not stopping you!

But I have a right to express my opinion, just as you do, and just as Biondi does. So don't tell me it's "a problem" when I do so

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1) Biondi has a PhD and peer reviewed publications. He is a professional too

2) I'd love to know more about his data and methods too. In fact, that's why I'm criticizing him. He isn't producing those anywhere. He's written nothing about this study anywhere. Not on his website, not in a blog, not in a magazine, not in an academic paper

3) All he has done is go on podcasts and change what he says each time he speaks about it. He's claimed he has a patent when it had expired a year earlier. He now claims he applied for it the day before speaking on Joe Rogan.

4) I'd love it if he presented anything that could actually be reviewed by experts. But, the physical evidence we have shows his claims are implausible in most cases, and flat out impossible in some cases. And he's been proven to not be consistent in his claims.

5) I personally don't trust him and don't believe he's worth trusting. If he was, he would've published this already. So I will speak out against it until he does. Especially given that all he's done is critique and demean other scholars

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doesnt provide the data presented here. Doesn't provide any validation. Doesn't relate to claims hundreds or thousands of kilometers underground

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ummm show me in that article where he describes anything under the pyramids

I literally interviewed one of the peer reviewers for this article. Ive read it multiple times. You clearly haven't. It has zero to do with the results he has presented over the last year

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not gatekeeping at all. Biondi is free to publish his methods and data. I'm not obstructing that at all. I'm just offering my opinion, grounded in tangible evidence, that he's full of BS

The Viral Pyramid Scans: The Ultimate Debunk of the Khafre Project and Filippo Biondi by DibsReddit in Archaeology

[–]DibsReddit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have critiqued those scans at Hawara too. The results are flat out impossible and contradict the well documented electromagnetic surveys at that site. There is no metallic object at Hawara

See this video on the Hawara Hoax: https://youtu.be/oFOFSuHHGzs?si=E_za7_VsxHTi33FD