alt_history Sciencealert / Plos One 2026-09-15

Deep-Sea Mud Slinging: Baffin Bay Core Samples Briefly Revive and Retract the Younger Dryas Comet Panic

Researchers analyzing ocean sediment cores from Baffin Bay proudly announced microscopic evidence of a cosmic airburst that supposedly triggered a 12,800-year-old deep freeze. Unfortunately, mainstream science greeted the revelation with a massive eye-roll, leading the journal to swiftly retract the paper over data and methodology concerns. Proponents of the impact hypothesis remain unfazed, continuing to insist that an ancient apocalypse vaporized the mammoths despite the academic community's desperate desire to talk about anything else.

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