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Tusk Exclusive: Vance Holliday provides informal critique of the Younger Dryas Boundary theory

Vance Holliday and others in this email exchange have kindly allowed me to post their chatter to the Tusk.

I will clean it up later. But for now – here you go…..

On 9/24/2010 2:38 PM, Vance Holliday wrote:

Richard:

All I asked was why is it that when us skeptics can’t reproduce

data or confirm hypothesis for The Impact Team we are accused of slipshod

science or incompetence, yet The Impact team seems to always find what

they are looking for???  Has anyone on The Impact Team critically looked

at their own data? Questioned their hypothesis? Isn’t that was science

is about?

And are we really expected to believe that Vance Haynes can’t

find the Black Mat???

I guess I could just as easily say to you “Fortunately science

is not based on opinions but instead on measurements. Dozens of scientists

bringing unique skills to the subject have provided an enormous amount of

experimental data providing no support for the idea of an impact at the

onset of the YDB. A few, highly biased scientists threw together some

slipshod experiments to support their hypothesis.”

I must confess to growing very weary of unsubstantiated

accusations of incompetence, slipshod science, and bias toward everyone

who doesn’t buy or who presents data contrary to the YD Impact

Hypothesis. All of the people who tested the hypothesis and came up

wanting or those who tried to reproduce the data are just trying to figure

out what is going on. I know many of them. All are highly respected in

their various fields. None had any biases or agendas that I am aware of.

What is your basis for calling them “highly biased”? On what basis do

you decide that their experiments are “slipshod”?  Because their data

don’t confirm yours???

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