2013

October 5, 2013

Faye Flam?: Knight Science Journalism Tracker gets nearly everything wrong in a single blog

Faye Flam Flam responds in KSJT comments? Below is a link to a very poorly written, intellectually depressing and kinda mean press blog out of MIT. Flam does not distinguish Dartmouth’s Markul Sharma et al. from the original Firestone authors despite the point of her lede. Later she updates her blog to correct another less significant — but also easily discoverable &#8212…

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September 18, 2013

Love Notes: Wittke and van Hoesel in PNAS

Cosmic impact or natural fires at the Allerød–Younger Dryas boundary: A matter of dating and calibration Annelies van Hoesel,a,b,1 Wim Z. Hoek,b Johannes van der Plicht,c,dGillian M. Pennock,a and Martyn R. Drurya Author information ► Copyright and License information ► See the reply “Reply to van Hoesel et al.: Impact-related Younger Dryas boundary nanodiamonds from The…

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September 12, 2013

In desperate hole, Pinter grabs another shovel

Nicholas Pinter In a recent interview with NBC News anti-YDB jihadi Nick Pinter claimed that “the pro-impact literature is, at this point, fringe science being promoted by a single journal.” This is nonsense — and easily disproven. The critics of the YDB hypothesis have published 10 times in PNAS (see #1 below), whereas the YDB proponents have published only 8 times (see #2…

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September 10, 2013

NatGeo actually calls Wally Broecker to discuss evidence for cosmic impact at Younger Dryas start

NatGeo 2007 NatGeo 2008 NatGeo 2013 Did a Comet Really Kill the Mammoths 12,900 Years Ago? Did the planetary upheaval 12,900 years ago come from the heavens—or Earth? Robert Kunzig National Geographic Published September 10, 2013 Why did mammoths, mastodons, and other mega-beasts vanish from North America? Was it because: 1) humans killed them; 2) they couldn’t hack the climate after the…

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September 10, 2013

First Harvard, now Dartmouth: More independent evidence for Younger Dryas impact

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September 7, 2013

Tusk goes drone II

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September 6, 2013

Nanodiamonds re-confirmed at YDB

Tip of the Hat: Thomas Lee Ellifritz Nanodiamond Quantification in Pre-Younger Dryas to Recent Age Deposits Along Bull Creek, Oklahoma, USA Leland C. Bement, Andrew S. Madden, Brian J. Carter, Alexander Simms, Andrew L. Swindle, Hanna M. Alexander, Scott Fine, and Mourad Benamara, Geological Society of America 125th Anniversayr Annual Meeting, 27-30 October 2013, Denver, Colorado, USA…

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September 5, 2013

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September 3, 2013

Published critic not reading YDB papers....Jacqueline Gill goes to Twitter seeking well-established impact marker info

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September 3, 2013

Two Ivies in two months confirm YD impact: Pinter of Southern Illinois - Carbondale to NBC: "Fringe science," questions integrity of National Academy of Sciences

A meteor or comet impact near Quebec heaved a rain of hot melted rock along North America’s Atlantic Coast about 12,900 years ago, a new study claims. Scientists have traced the geochemical signature of the BB-sized spherules that rained down back to their source, the 1.5-billion-year-old Quebecia terrane in northeastern Canada near the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. At the time of the impact, the…

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Faye Flam?: Knight Science Journalism Tracker gets nearly everything wrong in a single blog

Love Notes: Wittke and van Hoesel in PNAS

In desperate hole, Pinter grabs another shovel

NatGeo actually calls Wally Broecker to discuss evidence for cosmic impact at Younger Dryas start

First Harvard, now Dartmouth: More independent evidence for Younger Dryas impact

Tusk goes drone II

Nanodiamonds re-confirmed at YDB

Published critic not reading YDB papers....Jacqueline Gill goes to Twitter seeking well-established impact marker info

Two Ivies in two months confirm YD impact: Pinter of Southern Illinois - Carbondale to NBC: "Fringe science," questions integrity of National Academy of Sciences

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