Paleontology is a Scam, According to Cam'ron! [UPDATED]

RIP to the dinosaurs, but humans are different. They may have been blessed with an early exit from this hellish plane of existence, but we’re still kicking, hanging their corpses in museums and gluing them back together so that some dude can remake Jurassic Park for the millionth time. But just because we can’t perceive them without the vastly complication science of Paleontology or 3D imaging technology, doesn’t mean dinosaurs never existed. I believe the phenomenon is known as “object permanence”—or, the understanding that physical objects don’t need human eyeballs on them to inhabit the material plane. Someone should sit Killa Cam down and explain this to him!

Page Six reports that on Thursday’s episode of podcast ItsTheReal, Cam’ron bravely explained to hosts Eric and Jeff Rosenthal: “I have fights with people about dinosaurs.” He went on to explain that the entire science of paleontology “sounds like a money maker,” questioning how some bones that have sat in the earth for millions and millions of years could be re-assembled by modern scientists. “They throw these big bones, pause, up in a museum, and then be like, ‘Yo, these are the people that were here before us …’ I mean, pardon me or whatever.”

The problem for Cam is that he doesn’t understand how they don’t just “crumble or anything like that,” and still thinks we need “a little more proof.” I am not an expert in paleontology by any means, but the fact that there’s an entire suite of science disciplines beyond just the curators that “glue the bones together” should be all the proof that Cam needs. Interestingly, he admits: “I wish I could be an archaeologist and be like, ‘I found some shit.’ I’d be at the beach every day like, ‘Yo, look what I discovered,’ and just make some shit up.” Maybe his inability to grasp the existence of dinosaurs is actually jealousy! (Although, how much do paleontologists actually make for digging some bones up? Any bone-digger-uppers care to comment?) Thankfully, he doesn’t think the world is flat! Bone mysteries I can live with. A flat-earth Cam’ron, however, would’ve left me despondent.

While the American Museum of Natural History has not directly responded to my request for comment, the publicist I spoke with mentioned that she’d seen Cam’ron’s comments. In my head, I like to imagine that the museum was abuzz with the gossip, with hundreds of dinosaur scientists rapidly googling Page Six. If and when their paleontologists get back to me, I will absolutely follow up on this breaking story! [Page Six]