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Conversely, many pseudoarchaeologists, whilst criticising the academic archaeological establishment, also attempt to get support from people with academic credentials and affiliations.

At times, they quote historical, and in most cases dead academics to back up their arguments ; for instance prominent pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock, in his seminal Fingerprints of the Gods ( 1995 ), repeatedly notes that the eminent physicist Albert Einstein once remarked positively on the theory of Earth Crustal Displacement ( a theory that has been abandoned by the academic community but which Hancock has adopted ).

As Fagan noted however, the fact that Einstein was a physicist and not a geologist is not even mentioned by Hancock, nor is the fact that the understanding of Plate tectonics ( which came to disprove Earth Crustal Displacement ), only came to light following Einstein's death.