Flint Dibble Called Me a Liar: My Response

Debunking Flint's Response to my video on Maritime Archaeology

In this video, I address Flint Dibble's response to my previous critique of his maritime archaeology claims, which Graham Hancock shared. Despite Flint's assertions, he failed to adequately cite evidence and doubled down on untrue statements, particularly about shipwrecks and Ice Age metallurgy. I scrutinize the discrepancies in his claims, the lack of proper citations, and his selective use of evidence. There is a lack of context for certain claims, with citations for underwater preservation presented by Flint not including actual shipwreck preservation research. Join me as I examine Flint's arguments and highlight the importance of presenting accurate archaeological research.

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00:00 Intro
00:34 Cited All Evidence
01:01 Metallurgy
02:59 Flint Did not Respond to my evidence
03:41 Not an Ice Age Site
04:46 Shipwreck Context
06:36 Did not Disengage
07:02 Flint Did Accuse Graham of Lying
07:10 Flint's Hitpiece in the Guardian

[Sobchak]

"Flint, you wanted to discredit a man's work over 30 years in a four and a half conversation".

What work are you referring to, science-fiction books?

GH moaned for years that real scholars would not dare to debate his "points" publicly. And i understand why they never did: it would have been a conversation with data and evidence on one side vs. feelings on the other one. Totally pointless.

Then GH finally found someone who accepted to debate him in public and what does he do? As he later admitted, he comes completely unprepared, like the worst of the amateurs.
He didn't even know what he wrote in his own books, Flint Dibble had to explain it to him too.

During the debate GH had to concede that in the parts of the globe where archaeologists looked at, there is no evidence of an advanced civilisation.
In the parts of the world they did not look at, there cannot be any evidence of an advanced civilisation. By definition.
Thus, at present there is no evidence of such advanced civilisation.
Zero.
Nil.

So it was GH himself who discredited his own "work over 30 years".

[efrinzorlon]

Flint's underwater argument: "We chose sites based on hunter-gather models and never found any evidence of advanced civilization"... that's like me following a few deer trails, and not finding any sharks I rule sharks do not exist.

[DukeBluedevil]

Flint Dibble sounds like a made up character in a novel for an evil bureaucrat but he is indeed a real person lol.

[RobsMemoryLane]

Did he block you like he does everyone else? What's really sad is when a "non professional" beats them at their own game. They really hate that

[shaunholmes]

Bla bla bla, hold Graham to the same level of validity in his claims, you'll find yourself very busy.

[sigma-freud]

@Illegitimate_Scholar you are nonsense. Lmao let's clear things:

1.) There's not a single evidence for your imaginary playland, not a single one and if you are gonna use the Atlantis of the Gaps argument just remember that real archaeologists use predictive models based on morphology to dig not randomly but predictively.

2.) Even if Flint got the number on shipwrecks wrong, that doesn't deny the fact that there are no shipwrecks that traces back to your imaginary playland. Yep, not one!

3.) The traces of metallurgy IS MISLEADING lmao the paper you cited literally states that the traces come from the varying weather pattern around the globe causing small deposits to be frozen not because of the metallurgy done by your imaginary play land and if there's an advanced civilization doing metallurgy WHY ARE THERE NO EVIDENCE LIKE THE ACTUAL EQUIPMENTS THEY MADE???

[SoulSoundMuisc]

Whenever I see a guy like Flint Dibble three things pop into my head.

He wears a suit in an attempt to legitimize himself on first impression and lend any nonsense he might spout that "professorial air"
He wears a hat to evoke "cutting edge wisdom and panache", sliding in on those Indiana Jones coattails (effectively the "Aliens!" guy, but with a hat instead of hair-- look at me, look at me!)
He wears a beard to disguise his weak chin.

[democracyrequired]

I've only just recently started watching your channel, and am slowly working my way through your videos. Having jumped from some of your first to this one, there's clearly been some improvement since you started, so good job! I'm not familiar enough with the terminology around video-making, so hopefully it makes sense when I say that your editing is really good (cutting between yourself and the individuals you are quoting, the various funny cuts to things like "wouldn't you like to know weather boy, " etc.).

One very small criticism for you is that in this video as well as some of the older ones I've watched, your videos sometimes end with the audio cutting out jarringly abruptly. In this video, after doing normal conclusory stuff that is all fine, the last word you say is "patreon" (which I joined just a moment ago!). The video ends before you've fully finished enunciating the "n" of "patreon, " and it almost sounds as if that sentence was going to continue based on the rhythm of the sentence(?) Hopefully I'm explaining this in a way that makes sense. And again, but a minor critique of an otherwise good job.

As for what I think: I'll have to watch the previous video you did on the guy to really say, but so far is sounds like Flint Dibble is full of it.

[rmsavig]

How can someone be accused of being a pseudo archaeologist when they are, in fact, NOT an archaeologist???? If i make a wrong weather prediction and am not a meteorologist, would i be a pseudo meteorologist????

[LTPottenger]

He's a 'food archaeologist' who thinks the oldest evidence of wheat is about 10k years old. You can discount everything he says once you realize that, he can't even be bothered to learn basic info about his own supposed specialty.

[andrewblackard]

In the Internet age there are so many situations like this that leave me wondering. Is a certain person 1)simply technically wrong, 2)untruthful, or 3)did they commit to a mistaken opinion in a book or YouTube and they're too proud and stubborn to admit it. Still wondering.

I have read so many scholarly 2nd editions with prefaces saying, Yeah about what I wrote in the 1st edition 20 years ago, I may have gotten that wrong. There is no shame in learning new things and admitting mistakes, especially based on advances in knowledge.

Also, I hate to say it but perhaps Flint is secretly a pseudo-accountant despite his claim of not being an accountant. LOL

[DroneBeeStrike]

I knew this dude was full of it from the moment he started talking

[tmp]

It's wild that Dibble seemed to kick Hackcocks butt but ultimately turned that win to a loss when people looked into his work. Becoming the real pseudo scientist.

[musicallyassureddestruction]

It is unfortunate Flint misrepresented on JRE and had a racial axe to grind. But he seems intellectually lazy. His arguments about excavation were very slippery.

Also: “advanced civilization” just means “state of the art” for its time. It is not improbable a great catastrophe befell human society at some point, causing a reset.

[sawtoothgrind]

didnt graham also show in his video after the fact that there are traces of lead back 12000 years ago or so so there IS some evidence that metalurgy could have been possible?

[mvc]

Well this is going to have to be dissected and addressed by Flint and he will not be able to hide from it regardless of Graham is right or wrong Flint did what he did

[Abprojectscom]

There is so much we really don’t know and too note get changed with new discoveries every so often. Flint dibble to argue with the facts he did where just imo bs. The whole pollen topic only going back x amount of time was just crazy to me. But I’d have to go back and re watch to make a better argument. But it kinda goes as follows. If there was a flood or something else that we might suspect could have happened globally couldn’t that change dating? His dismissal of the fact Hancock states it’s things we should look into not take as fact is insane to me. There was just a lot of dibble that rubbed me the wrong way. I also think there is a lot of mainstream archeologists and other groups are very cannibalistic to people who don’t fall in line with their views.

[StopMotionDryptosaurus]

What do you think this Ice Age civilization was?

I think it was a Gobekli Tepe-like structure that was flooded and buried during the Ice Age Younger Dryas event.

What are your thoughts?

[EbonyPope]

Dude I discovered you through Dan's channel. You were the one agreeing with me when I pointed out that Zeke didn't really provide proof that Dan willingly ignored his statements about genetic evidence. My name there is Celo2308. Good channel. Subscribed.

[rogeriopenna]

Dibble is right. I have no idea why Youtube suggested me your pseudo archeology channel, but at least I can block it now.