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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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Guest Blog: E.P. Grodine's compilation of The First Peoples' accounts of the YD Impacts

From Man and Impacts in the Americas by E.P. Grondine. See here for Ed’s Dead Car Special! SOME OF FIRST PEOPLES’ ACCOUNTS OF THE YD IMPACTS As far as the 10,900 BCE comet impact event, many of the peoples remembered it. I included some of them in my book “Man and Impact in the Americas”, though at that time (2005) I misdated them to the end paleo at 8,350 BCE, instead of…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Dead Car Special!: E.P. Grondine offering great book at great price

I am sorry to report that impact researcher, and friend to many on the internet, E.P. Grondine, has fallen on hard times.  E.P. has had two calamities, a horrible stroke — and a career as a newspaper science writer.  Which is not a popular vocation at the moment.   If that’s not bad enough, his car “Betsy” has broken down and he is unable to repair it. What E.P. can do…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question