#ancient astronauts
# oddities
A new conspiracy book thinks it has a slam dunk argument for why humans were genetically engineers by aliens.
# astrobiology
One of the biggest questions no one asks ancient astronaut theorists is if they think our ancestors ever wrote fiction.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut theorists claim that aliens wanted our planet for gold mining. But why would they need gold, much less in a place where it's hard to extract?
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut proponents can't seem to distinguish between the terms plausible and likely.
# astrobiology
It's not completely impossible that you could have some alien DNA. But the odds are literally astronomical.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut theory is basically creationism for people who don't believe in the supernatural, as Lloyd Pye demonstrates.
# astrobiology
Another entry in the quickly growing HuffPo library of woo shows that all creationism is basically the same in the end.
# astrobiology
NatGeo gave ancient astronaut theorists the time of day, but did little to rebuke their pseudoscientific arguments in a rare miss.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut enthusiasts are sure that humans were created by alien experiments. And this time, they say they have tangible proof.
# education
Since the Texas School Board is really into injecting controversies into education, here's one they should consider.
# astrobiology
Americans believe that magic is a better explanation for the natural world than an alien intervention. It should be the other way around.
# oddities
Ancient alien claims often rely on a single flawed assumption: that our ancestors couldn't be engineers and scientist in their own right.
# astrobiology
A popular idea states that humans didn't evolve, but were created in a lab by the creatures who secretly rule over all of us.
