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All You Need to Know to Become a Giantologist

2/7/2015

 
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If you always wanted to be a giantologist but couldn't figure out how to break into this demanding field, today is your lucky day.  In a video interview, self-proclaimed giantologist and "advocate for liberty and freedom” Kristan Harris sums up all you need to know to make your dream come true:

“I can teach everyone out there how to be a [giantologist] and do their own giant research. It’s as simple as going to the Library of Congress – that’s a government website—and typing in ‘giant human skeletons.’ And there you will bring up thousands of articles from credible newspapers.” (about 9:10)

And that’s it! You're a giantologist!  

In addition to dispensing this key piece of "how to" advice for would-be giantologists, Harris demonstrates several other “tricks of the trade” during the interview, including:

  • Claiming a connection between the Woodland cultures of eastern North America and the ancient Near East (1:55)
  • Proposing a ludicrous chronology that can’t possibly be right (2:20)
  • Citing what “the History Channel talks about” to support claims (3:05)
  • Attributing the construction of megalithic monuments to giants (3:25)
  • Making existing accounts better by adding details that are not true (4:40)*[see below]
  • Asserting that the Smithsonian Institution has suppressed much of the evidence of giants (6:25, 12:30)
  • Asserting that giant skeletons were returned to Native American peoples through NAGPRA (6:30)
  • Asserting that secret societies (Freemasons, Illuminati) are also conspiring to keep the truth hidden (7:00)
  • Asserting that giants were cannibals (8:00)
  • Asserting that scientists are uncurious and closed to fresh ideas because they are afraid of ridicule (10:50)

All of you aspiring giantologists out there should sit up and take note: Harris has clearly got his act together.  When you reach his level you've moved beyond simple reposting of newspaper clippings and into confidently re-asserting the same unsupported assertions made by other giantologists.  Maybe someday his efforts will be rewarded with his very own program about giants. Or maybe he can make a guest appearance and be handed a "replica" of a human tooth from Denisova Cave and not know that it's from an animal.  When something like that happens you know you’ve hit the big time.
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*Harris says the following in the interview:

“You can also look at Klaus Dona who discovered allegedly you know a bone of a thirty, or what he believed a twenty-five foot tall human giant.  An ankle bone. He was on Ripley’s Believe it or Not, it was tested for DNA, it was human. That was also found in South America.”

To my mind, that certainly implies that DNA obtained from the bone was human.  I could find no information to verify that that was the case, however. The information I found (in the form of an email purportedly from Klaus Dona to Terje Dahl, reproduced on Dahl’s website) specified that no DNA results were obtained:

“We did not yet make an age dating but we tried to get a DNA analysis, but it was not possible to get any DNA samples out of the bones. They might be too old, concerning the archaeological DNA-expert.”

But I guess that doesn’t make for a very good story. 

I may write something about these “giant human bones” from Ecuador later – the available information on them is not impressive.



Gary
2/7/2015 09:43:22 pm

It's funny that the same people who will tell you that everything in the media is a lie, think that everything published in 100 year old newspaper articles is the absolute truth.

Andy White
2/7/2015 09:48:20 pm

Right. And in this interview, we are told that the Smithsonian is both "reputable" and part of a massive century-long global coverup.

calmcrash
3/9/2015 07:43:24 am

& of course vice versa ;)

Maybe it's because back then people seemed more honest and had greater amounts of integrity?

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost
forty years."

"It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

All mainstream media is controlled by 3 companies after all.

Some speculate that the same people also control the Smithsonian. Something to at least investigate.

'Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance"

I think the Library of Congress is a great place to *start digging.

After all, that is where I started.
http://www.godinanutshell.com/project/ancient-discovery/giants-of-ancient-days-12-foot-ancient-giant-peer-reviewed-giant

Gary
3/9/2015 08:50:20 am

"Maybe it's because back then people seemed more honest and had greater amounts of integrity?"

There is no evidence for that and plenty of evidence that stories were made up and glamorized.

calmcrash
3/20/2015 10:49:54 am

You mean compared to modern honest people today. Even back in the 50's people were more honest.

You may want to spend a few months going back through time. If people just "made up" or "fabricated" stories back when these were being exhumed they would have been hung in the streets. *Figure of speech.

PS you pinpointed that yet overlooked this. Seriously? Your as bad as Andy but I had him pegged day one. ;)

LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_of_Castelnau

Gary
3/20/2015 11:20:24 am

That's just sad. Try looking up the Cardiff Giant. Do you have evidence that people were somehow more honest in the past? Of course you don't.

calmcrash
3/20/2015 10:52:35 am

This was never about Giants & honest research.

This was about Evolution.

Guys let it go. There are many atheist giantologists. Besides you can have Panspermia. LOL

Greg Little
2/7/2015 11:04:07 pm

Good article. Two comments. 1) The Smithsonian, has, of course, returned "nearly" all skeletal remains and associated burial goods for repatriation. Last I looked they relate that under 300 such "objects" remain in storage there--mostly from South/Central America. Of course, NAGPRA didn't apply to the Smithsonian. It was a separate law a year earlier that applied to them. I don't think the Smithsonian actually had any giant skeletons in their inventory, at least none recorded—not even the 7 footers. 2) The cannibal assertion is something that needs a close inspection and comprehensive review by an anthropologist/archaeologist who will look at all the sources of the assertion and do a thorough analysis of all the available related literature. As you know, there are a lot of myths recorded and detailed in Smithsonian publications, Schoolcraft's massive volumes, and in a host of more modern books on moundbuilder beliefs that recount the idea of "giant" cannibals invading the land in ancient times. I have looked at most, if not all of these accounts, and I really don't know what to make of them. The various accounts exist, but what they actually mean is another thing. In psychology, it is generally accepted that all myths have some basis in reality, but the reality underlying myths is embellished, altered, and they evolve over time to fit the current views. That topic would make for an intriguing paper that a lot of journals would find important.

calmcrash
3/20/2015 10:48:39 am

You mean compared to modern honest people today. Even back in the 50's people were more honest.

You may want to spend a few months going back through time. If people just "made up" or "fabricated" stories back when these were being exhumed they would have been hung in the streets. *Figure of speech.

PS you pinpointed that yet overlooked this. Seriously? Your as bad as Andy but I had him pegged day one. ;)

LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_of_Castelnau

busterggi
2/8/2015 03:07:16 am

"You can also look at Klaus Dona who discovered allegedly you know a bone of a thirty, or what he believed a twenty-five foot tall human giant. An ankle bone.'

Considering the square/cube law that must have been a broken ankle bone.


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