Wikipedia article on Sam Osmanagich (article titled Semir Osmanagich)
Semir Osmanagić ... also known as Sam Osmanagich, is a Bosnian businessman... He is best known for promoting his pseudo-archaeological project in central Bosnia (near the town of Visoko) related to the so-called "Bosnian pyramids". Osmanagić claims that a cluster of natural hills in central Bosnia and Herzegovina are the largest human-made ancient pyramids on Earth. He has conducted extensive marketing about the site and promoted tourism there.
- It’s amazing how many times people can insert “pseudo” and “so called” into a sentence. Is there any clear distinction as to what constitutes the difference between a “pseudo-archeologist” and a real one? If you want a list of all the archeologists on Wikipedia, you can locate them starting at this page. You will find in here many archeologists who 1) didn’t get a university degree, 2) proposed ideas that were controversial in their own time or discarded by future generations. Osmanagic is involved in study and excavating a site. Why can he not be called an “archeologist”?
- In a nutshell, the first paragraph describes Osmanagic as a businessman engaged in promoting tourism to Bosnia. The author(s) is/are saying: he’s just in this for the money folks so he can sell pyramid tchotchkes at his store (not that he has one).. And yet there is absolutely no evidence (at least not in this page) to support this insinuation. Skeptics will tell you they are out to fight unsubstantiated claims, and yet that is exactly what they are trying to convey in this one short paragraph.
- Wikipedia almost always lists people by the name that they are commonly known by (e.g. the article is titled “Lady Gaga” and not “Stefani Germanotta”.) Almost all the English speaking world knows him as Sam Osmanagic. Why do Wikipedians insist on listing him as “Semir”?
the hills are common natural formations known as flatirons with no signs of human construction- The above is the simple quick refutation of Osmanagic’s idea. Yes, flatirons are a common geological formation. What they neglect to mention is that this Bosnian formation is four flatirons, all sloping at about the same rate, all at 90 degree angles from each other. Also, the article neglects to mention what has been the focus of Osmanagic’s work - the discovery and excavation of a tunnel system found under the pyramid.
Personally, I am not convinced by Osmanagic’s theory on the pyramid, but I have no reason to believe that he is nothing but completely sincere, honest, hard working and dedicated to uncovering the truth. Just the first paragraph alone is evidence that the powers that be at Wikipedia have given reign to a group of people who have no interest in a fair and balanced representation of the truth and harmfully attack and personally insult people whose work they disagree with.