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[-] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Graham Hancock has a history within Ancient Apocalypse of very selectively editing people's appearances on his show in order to make them appear more supportive of his crackpot theories than they actually are. Look up MiniMinuteMan on youtube for a complete breakdown and dissection of every episode of Ancient Apocalypse season 1. So, there is hope that Keanu is not actually that supportive of Hancock's theories.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 16 points 14 hours ago

When being too nice becomes a problem.

[-] BallsandBayonets 10 points 14 hours ago

Plot twist: Keanu isn't immortal, as the pictures show, he's actually just a very long-lived alien, and it's in his best interest to make sure none of the crackpots get too close to the truth.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

shame. i hope he was duped and didn't know what he was in for.

that being said, can't wait for the miniminuteman video.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

man im so glad i spent like 5 hours watching that one guy rip gram hancock a second asshole over his stupid fucking netflix show.

This meme would make no sense otherwise. Fuck conspiracy theories.

[-] farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago
[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 19 hours ago

miniminuteman, the funny milo rossi guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A

audio is fucking ass, unfortunately that's throughout the whole series, good watch despite this painful blunder though.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago
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[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

He may not have been fully aware of what he was being filmed for. This wouldn't be the first time a famous actor had been tricked into being part of an anti-science video:

https://youtu.be/icwDF8wRgF4?si=oSXWf_nB1oQPLKQv

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

True, there was even that creationist "documentary" that got Richard Dawkins to "look like a fool" in it

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago

Maybe he's not your friend and you don't really know him?

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I mean, I never said I did. I'm just throwing out another possibility (that has happened before) so that people don't just walk away taking the meme at face value without engaging with it

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 day ago

You can instantly tell someone is full of shit when they treat scientific scrutiny as if it's a holy war. Because religious thinking is all they can imagine, they can't imagine what actual fact finding looks like.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

they can’t imagine what actual fact finding looks like

Facts aren't useful for setting policy if people don't believe in them. Just ask any climatologist.

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 day ago

he's on the show to debunk or verify everything with his firsthand experience as an immortal, actually he built the pyramids and he's getting utterly fed up with everyone assuming aliens or workers did it.

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

He is a man of commitment and sheer fucking will, after all.

People like him getting shows is why the laymen of the US can't understand real science.

[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So I just watched a 4 part video series which I think is 2-3 hours long total? Didn't pay attention to lenght because it sucked me in and I was listening to it while doing some work. The level of misinformation, bending narrative and lies is just insane. I bet netflix just wanted to have their own "ancient aliens" style "documentary" because money obviously but the fact they present those lies and dare I say propaganda on their service as truth in form of a documentary is disturbing. I have no clue how did they even manage to get keanu on this shit because I'd assume he has people around him that would inform him about things given the reputation he has. I'm on a phone so I will send the comment first and edit in the debunking I watched soon after.

E: A little over 3 hours total: https://youtu.be/-iCIZQX9i1A

[-] DokPsy@infosec.pub 3 points 20 hours ago

Didn't even have to click to know Milo has created another Googledy Bunker. It's a great series and I recommend the rest of his work.

By his, I mean miniminuteman

[-] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

The only upside is that we might get another epically long Milo Rossi debunking

[-] DokPsy@infosec.pub 3 points 19 hours ago

Not if your Milo's liver

[-] wick@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago

Holy shit, they greenlit a 2nd season of that trash!? And he's still crying like a bitch about being censored.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago
[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 104 points 1 day ago

Graham Hancock is a fraud who pushes a baseless conspiracy theory about an ancient civilization that spanned the globe that was destroyed before the last Ice Age. He's successfully siphoned money away from serious archeological work with his specious bullshit, and right now he's doing a series called Ancient Apocalypse where he pushes this hypothesis on Netflix. Looks like it's going into Season 2 and Keanu Reeves appears in it.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 day ago

I used to love this kind of conspiracy stuff as a kid. It was like X Files. Then I learned people took it for real 😒 and it did actual harm to real academic work

[-] Someone8765210932@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

There is so much anti science nonsense out there right now, that stuff like this isn't funny anymore. It's sad and, more importantly, dangerous.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

What's worse is the links to white supremacy in all this shit.

The origin of many of these ancient alien slash ancient apocalypse "theories" are 1900s Germany.

People who were looking for a "scientific" reason why Germans were the superior race.

The core thrust of every "ancient" whatever theory is that ancient people were idiots and had to be shown how to pile rocks into a pyramid shape or shit.

The imaginary people who "showed" ancient brown people how to do shit are always depicted as white.

[-] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

I think I might have watched 1 or 2 episodes of this? I thought it was weird how he was talking about how known history is totally wrong and the vast majority of people don't know the truth. If it's the same thing anyways. DNF though lol

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I thought, growing in Russia, that such things are not possible in the West. (They were and to some extent still are quite popular here, though, with Fomenko and thousand other freaks.)

Do I look stupid?

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