There’s also nothing on the Amazon author’s page, and on an inactive twitter account for Ellis Silver, ‘ecological consultant and author’, there are just a handful of tweets referring to the book's publisher. Nothing turns up on Google Scholar for an academic and a regular google search just turns up countless links to the book and to the publisher’s webpage, i4w2.
To check that it wasn’t actually just someone taking the piss, I did a little search for ‘Dr’ Ellis Silver and his academic background he was referred to as an 'expert' in several reports on the book, although it was never clear what of - self-publicity perhaps? I can’t find much of anything that suggests that Ellis Silver is even a real person, nevermind one with a doctorate in ecology from a US institution. The best writers at the Onion couldn’t have written a more convincing parody of conspiracy theory/poor science literacy/vanity publishing literature. I’m not actually convinced that Humans are not from Earth isn’t just a massively successful hoax. So, basically: I don't understand therefore aliens.Īs Ellis’ friend, Dave Haslett, says: “there are far too many coincidences for it to be a coincidence.’ (This is genuinely used as an argument in the book.)Įllis' ridiculous arguments have been dismantled by others so I won't bother doing it here. We suffer from a host of chronic illness. The technological leap from protohumans to modern day is just too great We lack natural defenses against large predators We breed too much, resulting in overpopulation We like eating tasty food that is sometimes bad for us Some people suffer from hay fever and asthma We lack the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic fields (and use to get a sense of direction) There no 'missing link' the fossil record Some people suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I found it again as I was tidying up my Kindle and putting together a list of my next ten books, and, remembering that it was only supposed to take a couple of hours to read, decided to give it a shot.Įllis’ thesis is that humans did not evolve along with the rest of life on earth but that we were planted here by aliens (either fully formed or after being interbred with Neanderthals, he can't decide which), possibly to punish us for being war-mongering and horrible. I bought it as it was only 77p on my Kindle and then completely forgot about it. The book exploded into public consciousness when it was covered on the Daily Fail, and shared at the last count 58,000 times, and from the looks of it, parroted and linked to on countless conspiracy theory websites, including Alex Jones’ notorious Prison Planet. ecologist Ellis Silver’ (more on that later) caught my attention at the back end of last year when it was discussed on the Skeptics with a K podcast. The book exploded into public consciousness when it was covered on the Daily Fail, and shared at the last count 58,000 times, and from the looks of it, parroted and linked to on countles Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence was a bit of a left-field choice for my reading list I’ll admit.
Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence was a bit of a left-field choice for my reading list I’ll admit. In this fascinating book Dr Ellis Silver provides answers to all of these questions, based on current evidence and thinking in the scientific community and elsewhere.more If the aliens are out there why can’t we detect them? The most likely stars that our home planet orbits Seventeen factors which suggest we are not from Earth Including: An evaluation of the thirteen leading hypotheses Seventeen factors which suggest we are not from Earth How did we get here? When did we get here? What is our home planet like? The most likely stars that our home planet orbits If A scientific evaluation of the evidence for and (mostly) against man’s evolution on Planet Earth, by a leading environmentalist and ecologist.Īn evaluation of the thirteen leading hypotheses A scientific evaluation of the evidence for and (mostly) against man’s evolution on Planet Earth, by a leading environmentalist and ecologist.
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