Holly Lasko Skinner's HIT PIECE on MINIMINUTEMAN

In this video, the recent article on the Graham Hancock website attacking Milo Rossi (a.k.a. Miniminuteman) is analyzed. This is a continuing examination of what pseudo archaeology is.

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[miniminuteman]

Worst part about this article is that Graham assigned one of his goons to write it. Frankly if someone made a five hour long four part series tearing my theories apart I would at LEAST do them the service of responding to them myself.

Thank you for your thorough response to this and I am humbled to have professionals in the field support me as I refine my craft, correct my errors, and continue to learn. Science is self correcting and that is its most powerful trait.

I count myself lucky to be in a field where corrections are viewed as their own triumph because in the end it means you are closer to the truth.

I may cover this article myself shortly, but for now I want to give a big thanks to The Dr. for being one of the first to tackle this in the YouTube space.

Stay curious and don’t listen to anyone who uses admitting a mistake as a strike against you.

[emho]

He didn't just admit his mistake, he made a whole video showing him being utterly delighted to be corrected by such a distinguished expert.

[margeryk]

Not only did Milo admit his mistakes about the Baghdad battery, but he did a whole video about it including an interview with Dr. Hafford. Let's see Graham Hancock do something like that.

[Racika_]

The entirety of Ancient Apocalypse is "No arceologists want to debate these facts with me", then when someone debates him he goes "nuh uh"

[MyUsualComment]

I made a grammatical error recently. Guess I'm a pseudo-English-speaker.

[DaleyKreations]

Now now, we all know the proper term for Milo is "Googledebunker"

[thelovewizard]

"a freelancer who I have worked with for years" translates to "I have never paid this woman"

[cassandramaccarthy]

Crazy how Milo spent the entire series going "We're not gonna attack Graham as a person cause that's not how proper dialogue works" and then Graham IMMEDIATELY jumps to ad hominem against him. Professionalism at its finest on display here.

[regex]

They did my boy dirty! Milo may be a bit rushed, imprecise, or even overly enthusiastic at times but he's also the first to admit when he's done wrong and tries to correct after, and is constantly improving himself.

[patrickmontie]

When she googled pseudo archeology she had to skim through 3 pages of Graham Hancock and Brian Forester to get to the definition.😂😂😂

[manaash]

"skinner missuses my words, but i suspect that she simply didnt understand them." Is such a delightful, possibly unintentional slight and im here for it 😂

[ChrissieBear]

She didn't use the dictionary definition of pseudoarchaeology because if you look it up it's just a headshot of Graham Hancock.

[MrOttopants]

Artifactually Speaking did a great response to Milo about "the baghdad battery", and then Milo met with him later on and they did a few videos together.

I thought it was a pretty positive situation that showed something pretty common in fields of science. "Yo, you made an error, and here's how you can do better the next time." "Hey, thanks. I really appreciate the support from someone who has a lot of experience in this area."

[luxg]

Using the clip of the Miano/Rossi stream is so petty: here's a young recent graduate being modest and vulnerable, perhaps admitting to feeling a bit of imposter syndrome at times TWO years ago, and this Hancock lackey presents it as some "gotcha" moment that disqualifies him forever.

[NoIce]

A Hancock fangirl goes cheap philosopher in an attempt to scrutinise Milo for failing to be 100% accurate on one thing upon first try, while Hancock himself has spent decades to systematically and deliberately misinterpret practically everything he chooses to talk about.

[kerwynbrat]

I am a Forensic Nurse Examiner. I write a lot of expert opinions covering a wide range of subjects as forensics covers an immense field of study. When an author writes a paper and changes accepted definitions in order to fit their own perspective, they have immediately failed. By omitting or reinterpreting information that critically changes the perspective and conversation in order to sway the reader, they have failed.

As a accepted (I have testified in court and written peer reviewed documents) expert in my field, we see these types of "wanna be" experts all the time. They are easily debunked as the actual facts destroy them. Her intentional misidentifications are blatant and embarrassing. While I watched this video in full, I did research myself as all experts will. I watched the videos referenced in FULL in order to see the actual context of information being offered as context is significantly important. Ms. Skinner intentionally changes the meanings and context of statement's, rewords what was said slightly in order to twist the actual facts in order to support her paper. This indicates an author who is not interested in truth or fact but instead of pushing a false narrative.

I find the fact that so many people fail at critical thinking skills and listens to some of this idiocy depressing. While I would love someone to find a fantastic city with a far advanced civilization, I am going to have to find that in my fantasy sci fi books as common sense alone says that type of civilization has never existed here.

I must add this in closing, Ms. Skinner also does not have the expertise or education to be attempting to comment as an authority outside of her scope. Per her webpage, she obtained an undergrad in History, she has no peer reviewed papers in her education field or any other field, she has no "field work" (since that seems to be a big point for her) experience and she has no experience, whatsoever, in the specific field of Archeology. I am not an Archeologist, but my work overlaps as I do analysis on skeletal tool marks and other skeletal remains anomalies. I would be willing to put my CV and "field experience" up against Ms. Skinner any day of the week as would thousands of others who actually ARE experts in their fields.

Perhaps Ms. Skinner would be better served if she put her intellectual effort into her own field of study and in being a factual and accurate reporter of such.

[xanderprangler]

It says a lot about Lasko that Rossi's humility feels like a confession of some kind to her. She can't possible fathom the idea than an actual scientists/researcher might respect the title and the craft so much than he thinks twice before referring to himself as one. She, on the other hand, has no problem taking up on a title because she has no respect for nothing.

[daveg.]

These people spend more time attacking "main stream" archaeologists to validate their beliefs than doing actual research to support their beliefs.

[Dodoorknob]

Milo is not perfect by any means. But he is capable of something neither Hancock nor his ilk are: admitting when he messes up.

[emeraldhenderson]

Hello, I'm here from Milo Rossi's audience. Thank you for making this video. I have watched a few of your other videos and your collaborations with Milo, and I just wanted to say that from my layman's perspective, you do a great job of explaining yourself. I have a hard time believing that Holly Lasko could have truly misunderstood the points you were making unless she was purposely misunderstanding them to suit her agenda.