Two Younger Dryas boundary papers were recently retracted by PLOS ONE. Within hours, critics began circulating the notices as though they represented the long-awaited collapse of the impact hypothesis. They do not. Let’s look plainly at what the complaints actually were. In the shocked quartz paper, editors cited concerns about the age model — specifically, whether certain radiocarbon dates…

This has been a satisfying week for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. For years, critics of the hypothesis demanded two things above all else: “show us shocked quartz at the boundary, and show us an impact crater.” Shocked quartz has always been considered the gold standard of impact evidence — a diagnostic proxy from craters and even nuclear test sites. And a crater, of course, is the…

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Nickel Films in the Bays: Smoking Gun from Russia Experiment in Geosciences, Vol. 24, S1 (2018), pp. 52–54 Every once in a while, a little gem pops up in the literature that makes you wonder how on Earth (or from space) you missed it. This one is a beauty. In 2018, a Russian–American team quietly published a short but stunning report in Experiment in Geosciences that should be front‑page…