Michael Cremo - Alternative Archeology - Monkey Business

An ode to Michael Cremo one of a few academics who refuses to change the facts to fit the theory.

Michael A. Cremo (born July 15, 1948, Schenectady, New York), also known as Drutakarma Dasa, is an American Hindu creationist whose work argues that modern humans have lived on the earth for billions of years. Cremo's antievolutionist book Forbidden Archeology has attracted attention from Hindu creationists and paranormalists, but has been criticized for ignorance of basic archeology and has been described as pseudoscience by representatives of the mainstream archaelogical and paleoanthropologist community. Cremo has referred to himself as a "Vedic creationist."

Cremo's father, Salvatore, was a military intelligence officer. Michael Cremo went to high school in Germany and spent much of his summers travelling throughout Europe. He attended George Washington University from 1966 to 1968, then served in the United States Navy

In 1993 Cremo co-wrote Forbidden Archeology with Richard L. Thompson. The book claims that humans have lived on the earth for millions, or billions, of years, and that the scientific establishment has suppressed the fossil evidence for extreme human antiquity. He speaks about a knowledge filter (confirmation bias) as the reason for this suppression. Cremo continues this theme in Forbidden Archeology's Impact (1998) and Human Devolution (2003). Cremo considers himself a "Vedic archeologist", since he believes his findings support the story of humanity described in the Vedas. The Indian magazine Frontline called Cremo and Thompson "the intellectual force driving Vedic creationism".
Cremo's work has attracted attention from Hindu creationists and paranormalists, and he has been a frequent guest on the late-night talk radio show Coast to Coast AM, which specialises in the paranormal and conspiracy theories. His books provided much of the content for the widely criticized 1996 NBC special The Mysterious Origins of Man.
Forbidden Archeology has been criticized for failing to test simpler hypotheses before proceeding to propose more complex ones (a violation of Occam's razor) and for cherry picking outdated evidence (often from the 19th and early 20th century) that supports their position while ignoring or ridiculing more recent information that refutes or challenges their claims. Tom Morrow of the National Center for Science Education noted that Cremo's "specimens no longer exist" and called his work pseudoscience.
His book Human Devolution, which like Forbidden Archeology claims that modern man has existed for millions of years, attempts to prove this by citing "every possible research into the paranormal ever conducted anywhere to 'prove' the truth of holist Vedic cosmology which proposes the presence of a spiritual element in all matter (which takes different forms, thereby explaining the theory of 'devolution')


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[TheFifthGreatApe]

@44 Where did your reply go? Anyway, you're right, just go look up this quack and READ HIS OWN WORDS and one will realize VERY quickly that he has nothing, credible, to say on the subject of evolution.

If one simply reads his bio on his website one can tell that his is a WRITER that makes his living WRITING BOOKS. In other words, he seems to have an alternative motive not to mention when he talks about science using terminology like; soul, spiritual, re-incarnation, my skeptical meter goes off.

[44connected]

@TheFifthGreatApe Nobody knows everything; not a big fan of his hippie idealisms but the archaeological information that he brings to light does make me question the 'official' history that is being presented to us.

[parrotchops]

I would love to see these artefacts, does anyone know what they were?

[44connected]

@parrotchops Here's a link to the full TV programme off NBC presented by Charlton Heston, found it very coincidental that he presented it and stared in Planet of the Apes, same story/theory...

watch?v=6oGqPc6poS4

[Kinkspace]

Reminds me of Israel & the mountain of archaeological artifacts it has suppressed & destroyed because they would of cast a different light entirely on their "historical beliefs".

[1011Zenghost1101]

Anyone who accepts something without investigating it themselves is either lazy or easily brainwashed.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

-Aristole

[1011Zenghost1101]

Ok so here's the deal. There is rational science and there is fundamentalist science. There is rational philosophy/insight found within religions and spirituality and there is fundamentalist religion. There are rational Atheists and evangelical Atheists. Science can be corruptible just the same as religion. The scientific method is a wonderful tool, but no seems to talk about how scientists and their research are conformed to whoever is funding them. Not to mention establishment biases.

[TheGreenerGardener]

@Kinkspace Convenient that there is no evidence to prove those items were destroyed, other than hearsay. None of you people who believe this stuff have a single clue as to how the scientific method works and what can be considered valid evidence. Evidence needs documentation, records and notes in triplicate. It seems like all of his "evidence" has either been "covered up," "destroyed" or is hearsay from some other pseudoscientist....DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMMMMMMMB.

[TheGreenerGardener]

@casualtybeats That's not science. Not one bit.

[TheGreenerGardener]

This man has zero concept of how archaeology is done. You have to record the specific location of items in the strata of the Earth's crust and document EVERYTHING...you know, like a scientist! His "evidence" is completely hearsay and has no place in actual science. When he executes an archaeological excavation, records his findings and publishes them amongst other archaeologists who worked at the site, then he may earn some credibility. Until then he has none.

[TOMHYLE88]

I don't know or care about the age of the human specie, but this contains two very telling accounts of how Yuppies/scientists/skeptics cover up whatever they don't agree with. The museum that told two lies to avoid sharing info because of who wanted it, then just refused to cooperate when the lies were defeated, especially mirrors my experience of these types; they'll make some attempt to seem professional/adult, but will finally drop pretense and just sneer as if that's an argument. Typical

[casualtybeats]

@44connected they used a lot of explosives who knows what they blew up

[casualtybeats]

this made me think that maybe the gold rush was so important because it destroyed the evidence of hum existence out side of the main stream controlled views by science

[curiouscrutiny]

lol anyone who reads history knows that the "establishment" has been destroying our past from the beginning.....i remember in college my art history teacher screaming at me that there was no way possible that the egyptians had an influence on greek art..i mean how silly is that but its the official stance of art historians...the world we live in is full of shit lol