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Certain individuals are very diligent at scrubbing out whatever they disagree with. The YDIH page is "curated" by a retired professor who insists it lead with a
by moloch-hai 4y ago
Certain individuals are very diligent at scrubbing out whatever they disagree with. The YDIH page is "curated" by a retired professor who insists it lead with a 19th-century speculation, and no doubt will be for a few years more.
Wikipedia "controversies" often carry on for many years after the pros have settled down, until retirees with an axe to grind move on.
- LarryMullins 4y agoBe that as it may, that still makes the subject controversial. FWIW, I do tend to think the bolide hypothesis seems right. But I wasn't there so I don't really know.
- moloch-hai 4y agoWikipedia does not define what is controversial. Often it just blows smoke, pretending to fire.
- LarryMullins 4y agoIf somebody is blowing smoke about a subject, that's controversy. Controversy doesn't mean "wrong", "debunked" or anything conclusive like that.
- moloch-hai 4y agoYour threshold for "controversy" is way below anybody else's. Is it controversial whether the Earth is flat? Whether people walked on the moon? Whether they found alien spacecraft there? Whether viruses are involved in AIDS and cancers?