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They’re back! This just in from Pinter and the gang. It’s a rehash of Pinter’s Powerpoint at the AMQUA conference last fall. I have some pretty good notes regarding his points at that time and will write a little blog when I get the entire paper and read it (something I am not sure they do). I should have responded to the AMQUA attack at the time, but with two kids, two…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Tusk Exclusive: Vance Holliday 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…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Tusk Exclusive: Bunch makes brief comments on Daulton paper

Ted Bunch From an email from Bunch to Leroy Ellenberger: Dear Leroy – not to worry, Dalton is a competent scientist and did what he could do with the materials given to him. The problem lies with Scott and Pinter. Some brief reasons why the Dalton et al paper is inept: 1.They did not collect from the YDB layer at the Arlington site that was used in the two Kennett et al papers, but from layers…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Breaking: PNAS paper finds no diamonds; Claims YD team mistaken in identification

Impact Hypothesis Loses Its Sparkle: Shock-Synthesized Diamonds Said to Prove Catastrophic Impact Killed Off N. American Megafauna Can’t Be Found enlarge Tyrone Daulton is pictured with the transmission electron microscrope he used to search in vain for shock-synthesized nanodiamonds, evidence that a extraterrestrial object such as a meteorite killed off North American megafauna. (Credit…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Shootout: YDB hypothesis debate at Laramie AMQUA conference

See session proceedings here. Session 5: Comet Impact as the Cause of the Younger Dryas: Pros and Cons Chair: Dan Muhs Allen West 1:00 p.m. Allen West – The Younger Dryas impact controversy: Exploring the competing hypotheses for the deposition of nanodiamonds, magnet c spherules, and other evidence at 12.9 ka Todd Surovell 1:30 p.m. Todd Surovell – Magnetic grains and microspherules from…
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Charles Appleton Day

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NatGeo gets it wrong on Carbon Spherules and Nanodiamonds

Don’t get me wrong from the headline.  I love National Geographic.  I have received an issue every month of my entire life.  But the reporter here, John Roach, made a critical mistake in his otherwise largely accurate report regarding Scott and Pinter’s work. Here is what he says: What’s more, those spherules are found alongside microscopic diamonds, or nanodiamonds, which often…
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Charles Appleton Day

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Breaking: Dirt balls -- not diamonds?

(Press Release, Royal Holloway, University of London) — A team of scientists – led by Professor Andrew C Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London – have revealed that neither comet nor catastrophe were the cause for abrupt climate change some 12,900 years ago. Theories of impacts and their influence on animal extinctions and climate…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question