Supports· weakYDIH-E033
The 2024 exchange: proponents' rejection and the critics' rebuttal
- what the source states
- Sweatman, Powell, and West published a detailed response arguing the 2023 review misrepresented the evidence, applied asymmetric standards, and did not refute the hypothesis; Holliday and colleagues answered with a same-journal rebuttal maintaining their conclusions.
- what we infer
- Carried as (weak) support because a formal, journal-published defense is part of the hypothesis's live standing — and as a marker that "debated in the literature" is true while "evenly divided" is not. The exchange is argumentative on both sides; neither installment contains new primary evidence.
- limitations
- Two of three response authors are closely associated with the Comet Research Group.
- Rebutted in the same volume; the review's authors did not concede any principal point.