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Kerr on Limb: Science writer misleads peeps in public post

Distinguished Science writer Dr. Richard Kerr walked the plank this afternoon in response to this morning’s Knight Science Journalism Tracker inquiry of science writers. Charles Petit’s casual post brought quick attention from the old-school dean of science writing. Kerr implored his press colleagues to, in effect: Move on, move on…There is nothing to see here. See here: I…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

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Calling All Crickets: Knight Science Journalism Tracker Shouts-Out the YDB Hypothesis

Crickets…. Watts Up? Big Media again tend to ignore PNAS report that comet blast – or blasts – renewed Ice Age, canceled Clovis culture, mammoths, giant beavers… — KSJT The authors worked mainly under grants from the NSF. It doesn’t give money to just anybody. — KSJT From the Knight Science Journalism Tracker A quite perfectly delightful hypothesis holds that air bursts…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

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PNAS: Very High Temperature Impact Melt Products: Evidence for Cosmic Airbursts/Impacts at Younger Dryas

Well, well. A cat just leapt from the bag. I don’t have an “as published” copy yet (despite being a co-author). But I will post one just as soon as I do. See here for UCSB Press Release:  Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact  These scientists have identified three contemporaneous levels more than 12,000 years…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

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Dutch Diamonds Demand Extraordinary Explanations

The Aalsterhut / Hut van Mie Pils The recent paper from van Hoesel et al., Nanodiamonds and wildfire evidence in the Usselo Horizon postdate the Allerød-Younger Dryas Boundary, confirming nanodiamonds in the Dutch Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB), or Usselo Horizon, establishes a cynical new low for the intellectual integrity of our debate. Despite confirmation of this extraordinary material in the…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

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Bronze Age Catastrophe Layer Discovered In Irish Shell Midden

Den Aengus Fort on the Tsunami Wracked Aran Islands offshore of Fanore Beach  Irish Examiner 6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery By Andrew Hamilton Wednesday, May 09, 2012 Archeologists have uncovered evidence of pre-farming people living in the Burren more than 6,000 years ago — one of the oldest habitations ever unearthed in Ireland. Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day

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Breaking: New PNAS Study Claims Black Mat Blast Materials Common To Wetlands

I’ll soon have the actual paper, but below is Sid Perkin’s take at Science Magazine. The news article itself already reveals what appears to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the YDB team’s previous results. The YDB team does not claim the blast spherules are from space. They believe they are terrestrial. The Lake Cuitzeo paper restated this conclusion. (See graphic below).
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Charles Appleton Day