Interview with Flint Dibble on Pseudo Archaeology and Science Communication

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode, join Matt and Chris as they enjoy a stimulating discussion with the archaeologist Flint Dibble. Flint recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss the evidence (or lack thereof) of advanced ancient civilizations facing off against the famed pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock. The episode was a four-and-a-half-hour tour de force in science communication and effective debunking, thanks to Flint's efforts.

We talk to Flint about his experience on the show, the extensive preparation involved, his thoughts on how to effectively engage with pseudo-archaeology and strategies for enhancing broader science communication. Additionally, Flint discusses the significance of authentic archaeological work and the crucial role of academic participation in public discourse.

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0:00.0	The Oh, Hello and welcome to decoding the gurus where we are not having the decoding. We're not in a supplementary material episode we're doing
0:36.0	an interview with another academic Clint Dibble so I'm Chris Kavna
0:41.6	anthropologist extraordinary of sorts, not really, but kind of.
0:45.2	And Matt is Matthew Brown as psychologist. And we have with us Flint devil and archaeologists and classical archaeologists I believe from Dartmouth is that correct?
0:58.0	No I'm at Cardiff University I taught at Dartmouth a few years ago.
1:01.6	There we go.
1:03.0	So in good academic style, your profile remains on their website
1:09.0	as if you're a current member.
1:11.0	So I, my Google skills have let me down but so Flint is a
1:18.0	classical archaeologist and we'll talk a bit about his research. However, recently he became internet famous of sorts because he appeared on the Joe Roggan experience, Joe Roggan podcast podcast to be it Atlantis or ancient civilizations
1:37.4	with the well-known proponent of that Graham Hancock.
1:41.3	And I think it was a four maybe four and a half hour episode.
1:45.2	Yeah, so that was a... It felt longer. Yeah, you know that's even longer than
1:50.5	our normal episode so that's quite an achievement and flint also has a
1:55.2	YouTube channel where he does science communication not just about ancient
1:59.5	civilizations so but about real civilizations.
2:03.0	So we'll cover some of that.
2:08.0	But I believe you had a question that you thought would help orientate people who might not know any of the relevant details about
2:16.0	archaeology or pseudo archaeology for that matter.
2:18.7	Yeah, pseudo archaeology. Why don't we start there? So for the people who don't know much about it
2:25.0	or Grand Hancock, could you maybe just give us a bit of an overview of
2:29.0	what his theory is, why is it considered to be pseudo-archiology and not real archaeology?
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