Dogmatic professionals in academia reject outright the theory that Celtic sailors may have voyaged to North America and explored her central plains a thousand years or more before Columbus sailed the Atlantic. In these excerpts from the 85 minute video documentary, Old News, a spirited debate between an archaeologist and advocates of the theory videotaped by the Denver PBS affiliate KRMA, shows how unabated and vitriolic the resistance was more than 20 years ago. Even authoritarian experts are susceptible to being misinformed. Apparently little has changed since the mid-1980s. Just hours before a November 2004 University of Colorado forum to examine evidence favoring the theory, the anthropology department protested in the campus newspaper (.pdf 276Kb), declaring the venue unworthy of anyone's time or consideration. Such is the paradox of academic elitists motivated to protect their status quo world at any cost. Rather than exhibit even token intellectual curiosity regarding these finds, a professor and his graduate student chose to demean the discoverers in the student press, a priori. How they can demonstrate such an unscientific attitude is an eye-opening lesson in the intolerance and condescension by those presumably entrusted to tell it like it is.
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