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Fire From the Sky · claim YDIH-C503 · Attribution rung · Retractions and the state of the record

The scientific community's rejection of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis was premature relative to the state of the evidence at the time of rejection.

Not featured in the current editionAI-extractedorigin: YDIH research report §publication timeline (2022 entry)

source anchor

Science Progress 105(1), DOI 10.1177/00368504211064272 — thesis of the paper

Evidence

No evidence records attached yet — this claim is held on its source anchor alone: the ledger knows where the proposition is stated and has admitted no observation behind it. A source is not evidence.

an honest empty state

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