I believe that it is the responsibility of all archeologists to confront and counteract pseudoarchaeology and pseudoarchaeologists. I believe that they should try to confront and counteract pseudoarchaeology and pseudoarchaeologists because the existence of pseudoarchaeology and pseudoarchaeologists makes the actual archeologists and field of archeology less trustworthy to the general public and has dangerous impacts on people affected by pseudoarchaeological claims. The existence of pseudoarchaeology and pseudoarchaeologists makes the actual archeologists and field of archeology less trustworthy because when the general public is told information in a scientific way, regardless of if it is true or not, they are very likely to believe it. It requires additional work to fact check the information presented in shows and articles with pseudoarchaeological claims so people are not likely to put in that extra effort. This is especially true when there are not any clear red flags that the information being presented is pseudoscientific. Discovery Channel often airs series with pseudoarchaeological motivations. These programs are designed to seem scientific and keep the audience engaged. One thing archeologists could do to prevent people from falling for these claims is teach them how to recognize when science is pseudoscience. Right now when actual archeologists try to talk about the field of archeology, people may not believe them because they already believe something else. People do not immediately believe archeologists because there is so much false information that they do not know who to believe. This lowers the overall trustworthiness of all scientists. Archaeologists should try to prevent this by avoiding fuling pheotoarchelolgist distrust in scientists and politely explaining where the pheodoachelogical ideas come from and why they are not true. Many pseudo archeologists believe that scientists are lying to them or hiding the truth. If the archeologist ignores their questions about pseudoarchaeological claims, that can make them believe that the scientist is trying to hide something from them. The best thing archeologist can do then when pseudoarchaeologist ask them question regarding claims they heard is explain the origin of the claim and why it is wrong. It is likely that they have just never heard the actual archeological reasoning that explains the claim. It is also possible that the pseudoarchaeologist does not know the motivations that inspire a certain pseudoarchaeological claim or what the claim may support. They may think it is just a fun theory when in reality many pseudoarchaeological claims have dark ties to racism. There are pseudoarchaeologist who are aware of the racist ties to many pseudoarchaeological and that is the reason that they believe them. I do not think that it is archelologists job to confronting and counteracting them however because I believe that archeologist deserve to put their personal safety first. People with such strong and hateful ideas are not likely to change their mind regardless of how kindly someone may try to provide them with educational information. Hateful people are more prone to violence and less likely to change so the odds of changing their minds is not worth the risk it would take to engage them in conversation.