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I don’t doubt his interest is sincere, it’s his methods that I find objectionable. Especially his methods for choosing sources. I’ll echo what @antipsychotic enthusiast just said.His interest is sincere
Rudy purposely eschews more specialized and more recent sources, because he’s skeptical of the modern university and academia. But that’s a big problem for more specialized fields like pre-historic cultures such as the Indo-Europeans. A great deal of the evidence that underlies the current theories depends on very recent evidence. Genetics for example is huge in that field. But Rudy misses out on all that because he chooses to ignore it. And in addition to seriously challenging his claims of being an empiricist, that means he’s objectively uninformed on the topics he’s touching on. Which is what I was more getting at with my comment.
Now, to be clear, I don’t think Rudy needs to be pouring over every single academic journal and doing Masters or PHD thesis level research and review on his videos. Not every history related YouTuber needs to be a Stefan Milo type. But as is WIAH is a poor man’s Graham Hancock, but even crazier. And that in no small part can be chocked up to his source selection.