Richards: "Professor Dave Doesn't Understand archaeology" and 27400 People Need to get a Life

Not even the cat could watch it (Dan Richards, 'Professor Dave Doesn't Understand Archaeology: Response' posted on You Tube May 3, 2025). This is the response (I use the term loosely) to the excellent video by Professor Dave that I talked about earlier. That video had presented a really good and balanced picture of the issue of pseudo-archaeology and pseudo-archaeologists.  

Well, I settled down to watch what Richards had to say, got my cold beer, a warm cat on my lap... It says 23,447 people have watched it. I did not manage more than 25 minutes before I lost interest. 

In his usual manner, in the bottom half of the screen, against the background of his yet-again-rearranged comic collection display, Dan Richards is in full flow while jiggling about like something deranged (go on speed it up to max, turn the sound down, that got the cat's attention he thought it was a rat in the monitor). I kept waiting for the presentation of an actual argument, the emergence of a narrative thread (apparently he wrote a "script" for this stuff). Above all, decency would require him to demonstrate in a lucid manner his leading thesis (in the video's heading): "Professor Dave doesn't understand archaeology". The first 25 minutes was not clearly leading up to it, searching the automatically-generated transcript revealed the rest of the video was going to be the same, so I turned it off. It was all nasty and random sniping with no overall direction, once about this, once about that. The whole thing was an exercise in a guy who loves the sound of his own voice trying to convince himself and perhaps his viewers that he's the only cool, good and clever guy on the planet - so best qualified to be a castigator of the stupidity of everybody else. Quote:

"God, I absolutely love doing response videos to somebody that I can just use my favorite horrible insults on, I mean that's so much better than discussing data and logic and facts and ancient history."

What an ignoble way to make a living.