Seems to me that they have to prime the pump to make it last longer than a few 24 hour news cycles. Facebook and Twitter fucked themselves by jumping the gun and will have to allow more damning evidence that is to come.
Ahh, linking to Allegro hagiography to prove that he wasn't bonkers...are you not familiar with how you go about checking an academic source?
If you actually think "academia" is on board with this then I genuinely feel sorry for you.
You might want to take anything with John Allegro off the list. He went full retard and published the most embarrassing book of biblical scholarship ofthe 20th century.
Problem is, if you take Allegro out then the argument that Christianity started as a psychedelic drug cult goes with him.
Kek