The “plane and helicopter” nonsense:

http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2010/11/ancient-planes-rockets-and-helicopters/

The lightbulb lunacy:

http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2011/06/egypt-light-bulbs-and-dim-bulbs/

how come you didn’t refute Cooper’s claim that those diseases did not physiologically resemble what was depicted? was it because the paper you cited as a link is only six pages long, with no inclusion of medical examples of either disease to correlate with its hypothesis?

what about the Egyptian wall reliefs of planes and helicopters and the like?

or the reliefs of the lightbulbs that the Egyptians must have used to illumine the interior of the pyramids? seeing as how there is scientific evidence that sustaining a flame is impossible inside the pyramids because there is not enough oxygen, how do you refute that?

have you forgotten it was “science” that first accepted unequivocally the existence of ether, then vehemently denied it, and now allows the idea to resurface as “dark matter”? thus how can you argue the infallability of science?

btw this link doesn’t work (at the time of this posting):

http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2011/06/egypt-light-bulbs-and-dim-bulbs/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13422630

My criticisms:
As you said yourself, science helps “us understand what MAY have been going on with Akhenaten [my own emphasis]“. It is still a theory. You stated that for alien speculation to not deserve ridicule “you need a real alien (live or dead)”. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with SPECULATION, whether there’s evidence or not. Many ideas begin as mere speculation until hard data is obtained to either verify or quash the idea. I thought the Dark Matter analogy was a reasonable one since, like the “real alien”, dark matter has not yet been proven to exist but speculated to exist. Also, in response to Vince’s posts (which I could only be bothered to scan-read) you left 5 posts on the same day, the last one sarcastically saying “so many replies”. You can’t really expect someone to reply on the same day. They might not even be online, let alone check your website.

But anyway, that was more long-winded than intended. I neither believe in the alien hypothesis nor see it as worthy of ridicule. When I first started looking into Dolichocpehalic skulls, I wondered why this practise of head-binding had been so common throughout the ancient world, on every continent. The current mainstream understanding of history rules out trans-cultural diffusion as an explanation, since these ancient cultures were so far apart and supposedly not in contact with eachother. The aborigines are said to have been isolated from the rest of the world for 30,000 years. Regardless of whether cultures learnt the practise from eachother or came up with the idea independently, I wonder why such a strange idea was so persistent. Then it came to my attention that certain Pharoahs had naturally dolichocephalic heads. Could it not be that head-binding has been so common because people were emulating the ruling and priestly classes, in much the same way that Africans have bleached their skin to emulate their white rulers? If this is so, then it implies that that the ruling families of the ancient world were closely related, or even a distinct race of humans now extinct (I’m not saying an alien race!). If this race had enslaved the other races it would explain why normal heads were associated with slavery in Peru and long-heads associated with freedom. If dolichocephalic heads had cropped up independently in ruling families throughout the world, you’d expect to see them cropping up more today as a result of inbreeding?

Sorry for the lengthy post. Just pondering, that’s all. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.