Miniminuteman
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54:27 · 8M views · Feb 28, 2023
Miniminuteman begins a long, humorous point-by-point debunking of Graham Hancock's Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse and its claims of a lost ice-age civilization. It is part one of a multi-part critique.
HN points people to it as an entertaining, thorough takedown of Hancock's pseudoarchaeology whenever his claims come up.
8 comments from Hacker News
Miniminuteman is a YouTuber who's currently debunking Graham Hancocks Netflix Series with some humour and guest interviews sprinkled through it. It's the first time I heard about Graham Hancock but it was enough for me to not be able to really take him seriously. His whole shtick seems to be to smear others and portray himself as a victim of "mainstream archeology" and just saying things without evidence which could be true if lots of established facts were to simply be ignored. this video
I think this video is good Ressource on the topic. this video Basically Hancock show lots of interesting and fascinating archaeological sites which is great especially since a lot of these are things that most viewers didn't know about before. But sadly he chooses to use these site only to present his theory for which he's doesn't have any actual evidence.
If you like video essays, I enjoyed this movie-length debunking of Ancient Apocalypse. tl;dr: The evidence is simply not there, and real archeology is much, much more interesting. this video
See Miniminuteman's "I watched ancient apocalypse so you don't have to" detailed critique (in 4 parts) starting at this video .
I found this lengthy, point-by-point takedown of the Ancient Apocalypse thing both entertaining and informative. this video