Chris Moore of the Comet Research Group rebuts Boslough's pseudoskepticism (again!)
Recently, Mark Boslough (who else?) wrote yet another scathing piece about the Comet Research Group and the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) in the Skeptical Enquirer (he's a long time member of their college). The Problem with Inadequately Reviewed Fringe Science | Skeptical Inquirer In it, he holds himself judge and jury for an entire field of science; namely extraterrestrial impacts. Indeed, he infers the YDIH is is worse than pseudoscience; he regards it as a massive fraud, similar to Piltdown Man x 100. Unfortunately for him, the field has move on and there is now a substantial literature on the sub-field of airbursts (how frequent are they, how to detect ancient airbursts, etc.). The YDIH is included in this. However, Boslough doesn't address any of these emerging scientific issues. Instead, he tackles the people involved. As aleady pointed out by James Powell in his "Premature Rejection" and "Pillars of Salt" articles, Peer review and the pilla...