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DanaThomas posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago
From the Andrew Collins newsletter: forbidden archaeology in the literal sense.
THROWN OUT OF GOBEKLI TEPE!!
Since I am now persona non grata in Turkey, and shan’t be visiting there any time soon, I can now tell you what really happened at Gobekli Tepe when I visited there with a multi-national tour group in October 2018. We were harassed, hounded and abused by the security staff of site manager and lead archaeologist Dr Lee Clare. He screamed at me to get out of the site and that “we don’t want your lies and pseudoscience here”. This is recorded on film. I was twice told by him to leave immediately. All our party were shadowed thereafter until they left, the security not leaving us alone until we were on the bus away from the site.
Everyone was traumatised by this shocking incident and one of the group had a seizure and collapsed immediately afterwards.
Our tour guide had to intervene to prevent me from being arrested by the military police, simply for being there.
The crime for this disgusting treatment?? Writing Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, which in its Turkish language edition has been a bestseller in Turkey and is freely available in all state museum bookshops.
What offended Dr Lee Clare? All of it. I should not have been writing about Gobekli Tepe. Period. To him it is all ” lies and pseudoscience”.
I also found I was on a black list circulated to archaeological sites.
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
Nothing like quackademic censorship, is there?
Corporate Quackademia!
I think the question can also be asked of Dr. Clare : Is archaeology ‘science’ ?
Hear hear!
“science” … little s, quote marks … It appears that Dr. Clare lacks a fundamental property for doing scientific inquiry … He is not ordered for truth.
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…above all, let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief, and that to avoid looking into the support of any belief from a fear that it may turn out rotten is quite as immoral as it is disadvantageous. The person who confesses that there is such a thing as truth, which is distinguished from falsehood simply by this, that if acted on it will carry us to the point we aim at and not astray, and then, though convinced of this, dares not know the truth and seeks to avoid it, is in a sorry state of mind indeed.”
— C.S. Peirce, from “The Fixation of Belief” (1877)