He sounds like a pseudo scientist because he is a pseudoscientist. His “theory” belongs on an episode of Ancient Aliens, not even in a legitimate science fair, much less a real scientific journal.

Funny how the author of the book that Young William is displaying so proudly in the photo above, Eric Taladoire, can also be counted among his detractors. He called Gadoury’s theory absolutely “absurd” in an interview with Le Figaro...probably just jealous right William?

It’s only 5 miles from a populated area, has been logged/cultivated in the past, and sits by a lake that locals probably travel to to hunt and fish; I’d bet money there’s a decent trail. All this “deep in the impenetrable jungle” crap is just plain IGNORANCE!

Actually “grow op” is just a wild guess, but “clearing in the jungle” is an absolute FACT, so there’s really no way Gadoury could “prove them wrong”.

He manipulated the data to fit his hypothesis. That's not how science works. That's how pseudoscience works.

Well there’s actually no question that the rectangular features are clearings and not structures. This is clearly visible from the photo. It’s also pretty clear, based on decades of research, that there were lots of very good terrestrial reasons why Mayans built cities where they did. The star-pattern hypothesis has…

Here here!!!!

Have you really looked at the kids work? It is an absolute mess. There is no “cosmologic alignment” even contemplated in it. He just took constellations, rotated and scaled to fit, and plastered them everywhere he saw a “Mayan Site”. They are layered on top of one another with no discernible pattern and some cities…

Here here! Armond LaRoque is the real villain of this story. The kid can be forgiven for being naïve and imaginative. Armond LaRoque is likely the one who penned the press release and cause this whole mess. You do NOT need to be an “expert in remote sensing” to have easily seen that those rectangular forms were…

He even went so far as to give this non-city a NAME. Who does he think he is really. Even with this theories and findings thoroughly debunked by REAL scientists he is insisting that he still believe in K'aa'k Chi' and is ready to mount an "expedition". Seeing as how there is evidence of extensive logging in the area,…

Ummmm... his announcement is JUNK! Announcing a middles school science project as some great discovery is JUNK. The kind of crap that can only happen in the digital MIS-information age.

The kid’s hypothesis was garbage. Mayans cities were not “built in a a day”... they popped up as small occupations, later growing to…

True. This was never intended (in my opinion) to be “real science”. It was a middle-school science fair for gosh sakes. Who convinced this kid that correlating Mayan cities to stars was “science”. It was a great learning experience for the kid (what a science fair project is supposed to be) he learned about…

Well there is the claim that "the brightest stars correspond to the most important cities"... That's pretty far up there on the pseudoscience scale. It's probably the one thing that sent my BS meter through the roof...

Armand LaRoque is THE villain in this story. He appears to be the kid’s smentor, and the likely author of the press release announcing this “discovery”.

Of all the adults overseeing this kid’s work didn’t anyone question his “scientific method”? Did they not ask questions like “What makes you think the Mayans views…

Preach on! Agree 100% These experts have been UBER polite in their response, praising the kid for his intellect and ingenuity without even seeing the quality of his research “and It use the term loosely”.

It’s NOT remote. That’s the point. Sure it’s out in the woods, but there are numerous farms nearby (about 5 miles or so). It was also probably cleared by illegal logging which is why it is a little bit into the forest.

It is extraordinarily obvious from the satellite photos that it is nothing more than a clearing (you can see the shadows of the taller trees on the lower vegetation). Marijuana Field, Corn Field, whatever; it IS a clearing. I am more inclined to suppose that it was cleared by logging activities and not for…

No one is exactly sure who built the city of Teotihuacan. They are referred to as the "Teotihuacan Culture" and they were not related to the Maya, though they shared some similar cultural traits shared by all Mesoamerican Cultures and were known to have traded with the Maya during the Classical Period.

“This is not a case of driving a jeep to the closest hiking entry point and a trek of a few days over rock, dirt and scrub with a clear line-of-sight.”

Oh no, that’s not true at all. You have been lead to believe that the site is very remote. This is every bit as false as the cockamamie theory that entire cities, hundreds of them, built over hundreds of miles distance and hundreds of years apart, by different Mayan kingdoms who didn’t even like each other very much,…