(Go on! Tell him to his face!)
The scientific world was rocked for, oh, eight or nine minutes in 2017 when a “scholar” claimed that a lot of vikings were Muslims. It was a ridiculously flimsy argument that lost no time getting blown out of the water.
The new pseudo scientific method: First announce what you mean to discover, then announce that you’ve discovered it. Forget those intervening steps.
That’s the theme of my Newswithviews piece today, coming right up.
It’s as if some of these scholars only desire is to rewrite history, and they grasp at any straw, without even checking the plausibility of their claims.
Lots of other people’s stuff wound up in viking graves… because vikings robbed other people. It’s what they did.