The God Culture: We Are Researchers Who Ask Questions To Affirm Things We Already Know

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture makes a big to do about being a researcher. He claims to have done more research than anyone else and that is why no one can disprove him. But what exactly is his research method? Let's hear Tim in his own words.

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20:30 The fact that Atel is Bengali is a bonus which connection we do not require but it is neat that it is there and we are researchers who ask such questions to affirm things we already know. We do not say this is the Indian Ocean because Atel is Bengali. That's stupid. We say it is the Indian ocean because that is the sea to the west of Indonesia where we were in the directions. That's it. And it's nice to know that it comes back full circle and ties that Atel is in fact a word in Bengali. Wow!

Funnily enough in this tirade Tim reveals his ethos as a researcher: "...we are researchers who ask such questions to affirm things we already know." Researchers do not ask questions to affirm what they already know. They ask questions to find out the truth of a matter. 

https://library.untdallas.edu/HIST/historicalresearch

• To learn from past successes and failures.
• Learn how things were done in the past and apply them to current or future events.
• To assist in prediction.
• Lead to the confirmation or rejection of relational hypotheses.
• Understand the present practices and policies by understanding the history surrounding them.

If Tim is doing research to affirm what he already knows that is called confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. The effect is strongest for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs. Confirmation bias is insuperable for most people, but they can manage it, for example, by education and training in critical thinking skills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Again Timothy Jay Schwab who is he God Culture shows us all he is not a real researcher engaged in honest research. He is a parviscient fraud and a hack who admits he is only looking to affirm what he already knows.