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Originally Posted by John Cooper
But if you refute a key element of a theory then you have to refer to where someone says "x is a key part of y".
He has not done this.
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I agree he hasn't and so like so much that is unsubstantiated my position is that I don't know whether it is true or false. I'm not jumping to the conclusion that because he has not provided a reference then that follows he does not have one since that would rely on some character assessment or such baseless ideas that all people do this or do that and especially the idea that all scientists are out to trick people. So I will bear that in mind and hopefully we will hear some more on his progress as he continues. What I was initially getting excited about was the idea of seeing if isotopes can be used to give date information so we can track down the origin of these carbon fluctuations. It's one of those lateral-thinking ideas and something might be made of it. A good scientist will look at it and start thinking themselves about it, as there is no obvious reason to say this cannot be done.