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Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (/ ˈɛrɪkfɒnˈdɛnɪkɪn /; German: [ˈeːrɪç fɔn ˈdɛːnɪkən]; born 14 April 1935) is a Swiss author of several pseudoscientific books which make claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968.
- The Scholar’S Problem
- Argument by Assertion
- The Palenque Sarcophagus Lid: Maya Ruler Or Ancient Astronaut?
- The Dehli Pillar: Without A Trace of Rust?
- The Easter Island “Mystery”: The Case of The Missing Facts
- An Intellectual Line of Defense
According to his paperback cover blurbs, von Däniken has sold 7 million copies of Chariots of the Gods?. His total sales, including later books, have passed the 25 million mark in a market extending to 32 countries. Depending on their temperaments, archaeologists are saddened, frightened, or infuriated when they contemplate the fact that he has sol...
Those of us who have grappled with von ‘s arguments have come to realize the truth of an old Army saying: When you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s very hard to drain the swamp. Assertion after assertion springs from the pages of his books, confounding any archaeologist who would try to address each item responsibly. If we wrestle von Däniken...
Let’s consider the “looks-like-aspaceman-to-me” type of argument by examining one of his most famous cases, the relief of the “rocket-driving god” at Palenque (von Däniken 1971:102). Palenque is a Late Classic Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico. In the caption to his illustration of this scene, von Däniken identifies it as coming from another site, Copa...
Let us turn next to one of the mysteries which, according to von Däniken, “science cannot explain”: “In the courtyard of a temple in Delhi there exists… a column made of welded iron parts that has been exposed to weathering for more than 4,000 years without showing a trace of rust. In addition it is unaffected by sulphur or phosphorus. Here we hav...
So far it seems reasonable to state that von Däniken is either incapable of conducting objective research, or too lazy to do so. He can be charged with something worse in his discussion of the colossal stone statues of Easter Island. Carving these 30-foot, 50-ton giants from their quarries and hauling them to their stations overlooking the sea were...
PLAYBOY: Should the fact that you are a convicted fraud and embezzler influence whether or not people listen to what you have to say? VON : You know, many people who have been in jail say they were not guilty. I say the same thing. I have never committed fraud or embezzlement, although it is true I have been convicted of those things. I was improp...
Before Jenner’s vaccine, inoculation was being used to prevent smallpox. However, this was a risk, because each person was receiving the real disease into their body. If the dose was too...
Jan 7, 2022 · He believes that aliens mated with ancient humans and tampered with our genomes, gave us various technological and scientific leg-ups, and then left Earth with the promise to return; which, he...
In the half-decade, since Erich von Däniken first published Chariots of the Gods? a lot has changed. His quasi-scientific theory that aliens helped guide some of the greatest achievements of ...
Mar 31, 1974 · What then are those facts, what is the evidence that von Daniken offers to back up his theory—a theory that has astronauts landing on earth 10,000 years ago and procreating Homo sapiens?
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