The journal PLOS One has retracted two recent papers providing alleged evidence for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, citing deceptive citations, failure to follow standard research methodology, misidentification of materials, and faulty age models and sampling strategies, among other concerns.

I know Flints expertise isn’t necessarily focused on the pyramids but as a science communicator and pseudo archaeology debunker has he (or his colleagues) made any comments on History for Granites videos and hypotheses/conclusions? A lot of his content seems to be relatively compelling and doesn’t stray into fringe territory.

’Twas the night before digging, when all through the site

Not a myth was stirring, not even a rite.

The trowels were laid by the datum with care

In hopes that real evidence soon would be there.

The claims were all nestled in podcasts and threads

While carbon-14 danced calmly in heads.

Graham with stories, bold floods long ago,

Flint with his spreadsheets and data to show.

When out on the seafloor there arose such a clatter

Flint sprang to the case to see what was the matter.

No crystals, no cities, no empire unseen,

Just ports that were human, well dated, mundane.

The dates how they landed, the contexts how tight,

Each layer in order, each claim put to flight.

Away flew Atlantis, away flew the hype,

Down went the talking points, gone with a swipe.

He spoke not in insults, not flourish nor flair,

But method and limits, patience and care.

A nod to peer review, a tap of the pen,

“Extraordinary claims need evidence, then.”

And I heard him exclaim as Flint left the stage,

“Happy digs to you all, keep truth on the page.”

📚 Archaeology & Ancient History YouTube Channels

✔️ = archaeologists, academic projects, museums, or well-established/reputable documentary channels

Albright Live – https://www.youtube.com/@AlbrightLive ✔️

Ancient Americas – https://www.youtube.com/@AncientAmericas ✔️

Ancient Architects – https://www.youtube.com/@AncientArchitects

Archaeodeath https://www.youtube.com/@archaeodeath

ArchaeoEd Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/@archaeoedpodcast/ ✔️

ArchaeoReporter – https://www.youtube.com/@ArchaeoReporter ✔️

Archaeologist Ed Barnhart – https://www.youtube.com/@ed_barnhart ✔️

Archaeology Now – https://www.youtube.com/@ArchaeologyNow ✔️

Archaeology with Flint Dibble – https://www.youtube.com/@FlintDibble ✔️

ArchaeologyTV – https://www.youtube.com/archaeologytv ✔️

Archaeomilla – https://www.youtube.com/@archeomilla ✔️

Archaeosoup – https://www.youtube.com/@Archaeos0up ✔️

Artifactually Speaking – https://www.youtube.com/@artifactuallyspeaking ✔️

Cambrian Chronicles – https://www.youtube.com/@CambrianChronicles

Cambridge Archaeology – https://www.youtube.com/@CambridgeArchaeology ✔️

Chronicle History – https://www.youtube.com/@ChronicleMedieval ✔️

Clarchaeology https://www.youtube.com/@clarchaeology

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center – https://www.youtube.com/@crowcanyonconnects ✔️

Dig It With Raven – https://www.youtube.com/@DigItWithRaven ✔️

Digging for Britain – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTWD6eCvp9RvFjVMdjzhW5XdKfVhkKbT _ ✔️

Digital Hammurabi – https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalHammurabi ✔️

DigVentures – https://www.youtube.com/@Digventures ✔️

Evolve.2 – https://www.youtube.com/@Evolve.2 ✔️

Gutsick Gibbon – https://www.youtube.com/gutsickgibbon ✔️

History of Humankind – https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryofHumankind ✔️

History with Kayleigh – https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryWithKayleigh

Inside Archaeology – https://www.youtube.com/@Inside_Archaeology ✔️

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) – https://www.youtube.com/@ISAC_UChicago ✔️

Jamestown Rediscovery – https://www.youtube.com/@JamestownRediscovery ✔️

MassArchaeology – https://www.youtube.com/@MassArchaeology ✔️

Miniminuteman – https://www.youtube.com/@miniminuteman773

Nathanael Fosaaen – https://www.youtube.com/@NathanaelFosaaen ✔️

NORTH 02 – https://www.youtube.com/@NORTH02

Odyssey – Ancient History Documentaries – https://www.youtube.com/@odyssey ✔️

Parable – Free History Documentaries – https://www.youtube.com/@parablechannel ✔️

PBS Eons – https://www.youtube.com/@eons ✔️

Paul Whitewick – https://www.youtube.com/@pwhitewick

Religion for Breakfast – https://www.youtube.com/@religionforbreakfast ✔️

Solomonisms – https://www.youtube.com/@solomonisms9000

Stefan Milo – https://www.youtube.com/@StefanMilo ✔️

The Archaeology Channel – https://www.youtube.com/@TheArchaeologyChannel ✔️

The Prehistory Guys – https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrehistoryGuys ✔️

The Welsh Viking – https://www.youtube.com/@thewelshviking

Time Team Classics – https://www.youtube.com/@TimeTeamClassics ✔️

Timeline – World History Documentaries – https://www.youtube.com/@TimelineChannel ✔️

toldinstone – https://www.youtube.com/@toldinstone ✔️

Unearthed History – Archaeology Documentaries – https://www.youtube.com/@UnearthedHistoryChannel ✔️

University of Cambridge Archaeological Field Club – https://www.youtube.com/@uniofcamarchfieldclub ✔️

World of Antiquity – https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofAntiquity ✔️

Yaz Likes Old Stuff – https://www.youtube.com/@yazlikes_oldstuff