And the war on science and reason continues.

Megan Fox Thinks Archaeologists Are Too Narrow Minded to Understand History

Transformers actress Megan Fox is producing and starring in a new show on the Travel Channel called Mysteries and Myths with Megan Fox.

The shows goal? To make you question the work of archaeologists, who are really just trying to mask “the truth” of history from us all. …

“I haven’t spent my entire life building a career in academia so I don’t have to worry about my reputation or being rebuked by my colleagues, which allows me to push back on the status quo. So much of our history needs to be re-examined.”

Urk.

Not only is this just bad science, it’s  complete misunderstanding of scientists. Every scientist I’ve ever heard of would *love* to “push back on the status quo.” Why? Because they don’t hand out Nobel Prizes to scientists who say “I looked at the data and, yup, it was pretty much what we’ve thought it was for the last 50 years.” The prizes, the glory, the *funding* and the historical legacies go to those who look at the status quo, say to themselves, “bah, I can do better,” and then actually do do better.

Place this in the same crazybucket as “Ancient Aliens” and “Gender Studies.”