Skeptic Project

The university where I study/work has a pretty comprehensive library system where you can search not just their holdings, but tap into virtually any database of academic materials in the U.S. and many in other countries as well.

Just for grins I did a search with "Acharya S." as a keyword. It brought up some interesting things, such as:

"Non-identical electronic characters of the internucleotidic phosphates in RNA modulate the chemical reactivity of the phosphodiester bonds." Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2006 Mar 7; 4(5): 928-41.

However, this article is co-authored by someone called "S. Acharya," a biologist who has no connection to Peter Merola's favorite pseudohistorian; the system merely thinks "Acharya S." and "S. Acharya" are interchangeable.

The system did bring up The Christ Conspiracy and her other book, whatever it was called, on the very last page of the search results. These books aren't held by our university but could be special-ordered.

Nowhere did I find a single academic article or book by Acharya S. beyond the two conspiracy screeds she's known for. Furthermore, the university system is keyed to return book reviews of an author's books under that author's name, even if the review itself is by someone else, and I got nothing, meaning that no one in the academic world has even taken Acharya S. seriously enough even to review her books.

I next did a search under D.M. Murdock, which is believed to be Acharya's real name. I brought up two more Acharya conspiracy screeds and one law review article by a "D.M. Murdock" who turns out to be Daniel Murdock, a law student at the University of Alabama, no connection or relation (I presume) to Merola's historical inspiration.

In short: Acharya S./D.M. Murdock has never written a single thing in the academic realm, and what she has written has never even attracted the slightest bit of attention from anyone in the academic realm. No one in academia has ever cited her work, so far as I can tell.

This should come as a surprise to no one who's familiar with Zeitgeist ideology, but I post it here just to underscore how bizarre the Zeitgeisters' and CT's reliance on her is. If she had really "solved" the riddles of ancient history as she and Merola claim, shouldn't her work have attracted at least one solitary mention in the academic community?

Zeitgeisters will be forced to explain their "no" answer by resort to a conspiracy theory that all of academia, to a man/woman, is "in on it," which is I presume what Merola himself believes. The idiocy of this position is self-evident.

Consider Acharya S. debunked!

The fact that she has no academic credibility whatsoever gives her credibility among those who believe in shit simply because it goes against the mainstream.

What you or I consider to be a lack of credibility is viewed by her proponents as evidence of it.

Yeah, its stupid as hell.

They just don't understand that the derived substance of pseudo-credible confinement is inherently inconsistent with compounded understanding of the resoundingly self-evident causes for the structural demise of our proliferating detachment from natural reference values.

CJ's statement = tag line

Well, she's going to love my new blog:
http://conspiracyscience.com/blog/2010/11/12/herding-cats-how-and-why-conspiracy-theorists-are-wrong-about-experts-and-academicians/

Because she is crazy and the Internet lets her spread it.

Publish your own book, thats a sure fire way of getting around the fact that it's a steaming pile of shit with absolutely no academic recognition.

My room mate has the "Christ Conspiracy," and Acharya S. is listed as number 10 in his personal "Top 10 Most Influential Authors." David Icke is number 2.

::Facepalm of death::

Actually, I was wrong, here it is;

1. David Icke

2. Clive Barker

3. Stephen King

4. Ayn Rand

5. H.P. Blavatsky

6. Jiddu Krishnamurti

7. Michael Tsarion

8. Richard Matheson

9. William Shakespeare

10. Oscar Wilde

11. Christopher Hitchens

12. Percy Bysshe Shelley

13. Alan Watts

14. Philip Pullman

15. Acharya S

We were talking in the car yesterday and he told me that he doesn't know much about history, economics, or law...but likes CTs because they focus on corruption.

Also, I've heard him say that he wishes "life were more like a science-fiction novel."

::double facepalm of death::

He hasn't in about six or seven years.