Steamed: Ted Bunch From the Heart On Boslough and Scott

You are in good company. 1906 Nobel Prize winner Henri Moissan got the same treatment: Naturally occurring moissanite is found in only minute quantities in certain types of meteorite and in corundum deposits and kimberlite. Virtually all the silicon carbide sold in the world, including moissanite jewels, is synthetic. Natural moissanite was first found in 1893 as a small component of the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona by Dr. Ferdinand Henri Moissan, after whom the material was named in 1905.[10] Moissan's discovery of naturally occurring SiC was initially disputed because his sample may have been contaminated by silicon carbide saw blades that were already on the market at that time.[11]

Hear, hear! Ted. The willful ignoring of "inconvenient" evidence is rife in the Boslough paper. As it was in Scott et al and the Daulton, Holliday, and Pinter papers. As I commented on another post of George's today, what they don't agree with is invisible to them - even when it is in papers that they cherry pick other points to pick up on. What an unscientific filter their Confirmation Bias has. Confirmation bias is a reality everyone needs to be aware of, especially in scientific papers. It seems to be getting some amount of press recently. See: www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/confirmation_bias.htm --- Confirmation bias is a phenomenon wherein decision makers have been shown to actively seek out and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, and ignore or underweigh evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis. As such, it can be thought of as a form of selection bias in collecting evidence. skepdic.com/confirmbias.html --- Dec 19, 2012 - Confirmation bias refers to a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs. www.rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias --- Jan 2, 2013 - Confirmation bias is the tendency for people to only seek out information that conforms to their pre-existing view points, and subsequently ignore information that goes against them. It is a type of cognitive bias and a form of selection bias toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study. Avoiding confirmation bias is an important part of rationalism and in science in general. This is achieved by setting up problems so that you must find ways of disproving your hypothesis (see falsifiability). Boslough et al's paper and press release, plus his comments here to George - are classic examples. How do we know? We know because they do nothing to show that they have tried to falsify their own work. What little they show of disagreeable evidence is childish (as Ted points out well) and incredibly incomplete. The childishness is magnified by Boslough's pleading of the Time Machine Defense. See https://cosmictusk.com/typical-boslough-paper-ignores-le-compte-et-al-pnas-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-23634