#YDIH

@boslough.bsky.social

1 week ago

Nobody does more to suppress the evidence for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis than the Comet Research Group itself. #YDIH

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Cheshire

@thatsregrettab1.bsky.social

6 months ago

Here's George Howard saying the quiet part out loud.

youtu.be/XyVKTJYxmnc?... #YDIH

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ScienceOpen

@scienceopen.bsky.social

8 months ago

Rebuttal of Holliday et al.’s Comprehensive Gish Gallop of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis <p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d4303035e127">In an article comprising some 96,000 words, <a class="xref-link" href="#r28">Holliday et al. (2023)</a> (HEA) claim to have “comprehensively refuted” the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH), even though it has been corroborated by scores of articles in dozens of peer-reviewed journals based on the discovery of some combination of synchronous nanodiamonds, exotic microspherules and platinum enrichment at more than 50 Younger Dryas boundary sites on five continents. No hypothesis or theory is immune from criticism, but to “comprehensively refute” one so well established should require dispositive falsifying evidence. However, HEA provide no new evidence of their own and many of their arguments are based on faulty reasoning. Their remaining differences of opinion do not lend themselves to the falsification of an active hypothesis supported by an abundance of reproducible evidence, which now includes shocked quartz which is generally accepted to be produced only by cosmic impacts. Their article can therefore be called a Gish gallop; a long series of weak or flawed arguments designed to overwhelm an opponent. Since HEA’s claims are too many to respond to individually, we instead have selected portions of their article for critical analysis. By providing strong line-by-line counterarguments to their text we crucially show that they demonstrate a poor understanding of the logic required to test the YDIH and a poor understanding of uncertainty in experimental data analysis, and these problems propagate through many parts of their review. We also show that they repeatedly distort the facts and make misleading claims or derisory remarks. In summary, their approach is a corruption of the scientific method. In fact, the YDIH remains in a very strong position and probably represents a second example to go along with the Alvarez Theory of an extraterrestrial event that affected life on Earth. A hypothesis with such potential should not be so casually dismissed and instead should continue to be the subject of research. </p>

'Rebuttal of Holliday et al.’s Comprehensive Gish Gallop of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis' - an 'Airbursts and Cratering Impacts' review article on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

🖇️ #YoungerDryas #CosmicImpact #YDIH #ImpactGeology #PlanetaryScience

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Kevin C. Nolan, PhD, RPA

@vinr-mims.bsky.social

1 year ago

Screenshot of first page of the RETRACTED article by Tankersley et al. 2022. "RETRACTED ARTICLE" is stamped across the text in large, gray font.

1/11 With recent re-rebuttal of #YDIH, want to share my work combatting this type of #psuedoscience. Tankersley &c 2022 published a claim that a cosmic airburst both inspired mound building among Hopewell communities & precipitated the decline of Hopewell (yes, α & Ω).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sophia Paraclita

@sophiaparaclita.bsky.social

1 year ago

Powell (2020) offers a balanced discussion of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) - the theory that a comet hit the Earth cca. 13,000 years ago contributing to the mass extinction of megafauna and influencing early human cultures. #science #ancient #comet #climatechange #iceage #YDIH

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Mark Boslough

@boslough.bsky.social

1 year ago

George Howard, one of the founders & leaders of the Comet Research Group & coauthor of most of their papers on the #YDIH, subscribes to this content. There is a very large intersection in the Venn diagram of climate denial and Younger Dryas impact belief. It’s not just creationism.

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