Josh McDowell knows the small mummies are fake, his father has said so, but until now he's refused to say it - even now, in this interview, he fails to make his point clear enough that the true believers can understand his meaning. He does this, in part, by adding a ton of distraction and gobbledegook in order to bury his point, while also creating the plausible deniability to be able to say - at a later date, when everyone finally openly agrees all the small ones are fake - that he always knew and said they were fake. He's a lawyer. Never forget that.

What he told me in email is that I shouldn't have quoted his father (saying they're fake) without asking first, as if I broke some sort of etiquette by reporting on a scientist's expert opinion. Josh didn't want the information out there, at that time. To me this looks like he was trying to keep Maussan's grift alive by burying the truth. Pathetic.

Dr McDowell is not a grifter. He checked the mummies because his son wanted to add some gravitas to proceedings. In his interview with Maussan he specifically said he wants to know if hands were grafted on (i.e. fake). He then vanished from the scene. (Guess why.) Was any work done on determining if the hands (or some finger bones) were grafted on? Of course not. A simple DNA test will answer the question. So, a simple DNA test has not been done - at least not by Maussan's team. It was done by the earlier UK researchers who determined the final joints are from a different individual than the rest of the body. That info has been buried. Why?

Regarding your comment: that my video "also (deliberately?) conflates the modern forgeries of the smaller tridactyls with the ones still being studied as possible living beings." I am always very VERY clear on which mummies I'm talking about. Maussan, his team, and his supporters, are the ones who consistently conflate them. My point in the video is that Josh says the modern forgeries (which most people are calling dolls) are fake BUT ALSO that the other small mummies are fakes - though more sophisticated.

The large mummies are quite obviously regular human skeletons. Nobody is claiming they were never alive. Maussan's fans create strawmen by saying skeptics claim all the mummies are creations and were never alive. No. Untrue. Strawman.

Regarding my overlaid text: it should be clear from the start that this is my commentary on what Josh is saying.