No, Daily Mail: Humans did not come from outer space or from monkeys f*cking pigs

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No, Daily Mail: Humans did not come from outer space or from monkeys f*cking pigs
By Tony Ortega
Saturday, November 30, 2013 12:24 EST

For some reason, the Daily Mail in the last couple of weeks is doing its utmost to make two self-published fantasies by a couple of marginal cranks sound like legitimate dispatches from the world of science.

Well, it’s pretty obvious what the reason is. Pseudoscience sells.

The first salvo arrived on November 14, when a ludicrous self-published book with a cover that looks like it was made on MS Paint was treated like a startling new advance in biology. Humans are not from Earth was written, the Mail says, by a “U.S. ecologist” by the name of Ellis Silver.

Now, there’s this stuff called “DNA” that we share with every other living thing on the planet which makes it pointless to examine the silly idea in this book — that human beings were suddenly dropped off here from another solar system just a few tens of thousands of years ago. This “theory” is supported with an amateur scientist’s litany of puzzlements — why do humans sunburn? Why do our backs seem so poorly adapted for the way we live? Why are the heads of babies so large and make childbirth so difficult? It’s the usual stuff that sends your garden variety crank looking for spectacularly bad answers.