Graham Hancock has some interesting and unconventional views of human history. He believes there was an advanced human civilization existed 13,000 year ago and was destroyed in a huge flood caused by the end of the ice age.
By "advanced" he is not claiming they had airplanes any flying saucers, but advanced, like the Egyptians were.
The hatred towards this man and his theories seem to be imbalanced for what he suggests. The MSM and establishment calls his theories "white supremacist" and "nazi" as they take credits away from cultures of "people of color". I'm pretty sure he never suggested any pigmentation or color of earlier civilizations.
The MSM and and archeology routinely claim that he says aliens brought technology to earth, etc, although I'm pretty sure he has not mentioned this.
So why so much animosity towards this? If it is true? So what? If it is false, so what? Is it archeologists who are threatened because they spent 50 years of their life teaching the world was one way, and now learning they may have been wrong?
Or is there some larger threat to the establishment here?
Edit: I'm only a little educated on this individual, so I apologize in advance if any of this is incorrect. Just that my experience is that when a person or idea receives many attacks by the establishment, it usually means they are over target.
Answers:
A. Money. There is a river of grant money in every scientific endeavor. Projects that toe the party line get the money, those that buck the system don't. No one wants anyone else to mess with their money.
B. Prestige. It's a currency, same as money. Prestige gets you recognition and money. Anything that disagrees with a prestigious scientist's opinion is heretical and possibly tarnishes their reputation.
C. Hancock is not an archeologist, he's a journalist. He used to write columns for The Economist. Since he's not one of the annointed, he must be shunned.
D. Because he's probably onto something big.