Dec 17, 2014
For this episode of The
Chauncey DeVega Show,
I had the great opportunity to talk with Jason Colavito. Our
conversation is a real treat and gem for ghetto nerds and those
others who are interested in fringe history and other types of
"alternative" knowledge systems.
Jason is an expert skeptic whose work appears on his eponymous
website jasoncolavito.com.
He is the author of numerous books. Jason has also appeared in
documentaries and other media where he offers up his direct, clear,
and reality based expertise on mythologies and magical thinking
such as the ancient aliens hypothesis, the theory of Atlantis, and
the myriad of distortions and lies about human events that have
come to populate the History Channel and its auxiliary
H2.
As Jason and I discuss in this most recent episode
of The
Chauncey DeVega Show,
our world is full of wonder and amazing discoveries. Thus, there is
no reason to lie, obfuscate, and generate from the ether, fringe
histories, ancient aliens, and other like mess. Our world and
universe is amazing enough without the need to create fictions that
soothe our egos as opposed to nurturing the
intellect.
In this wide ranging and very educational conversation, Jason and I
discuss why the ancient aliens hypothesis is so compelling, the
faux rigor and "scientific" approaches used by the fringe history
community, the fixation that
white supremacists have with UFO's, Vikings, and giants, the
Afrocentic dreams of how black Africans discovered the "New World",
and the oft discussed case of Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial
couple who were supposedly kidnapped by extraterrestrials in the
1960s.