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I've debunked some charlatans in the area of astrophysics before. But it's worth revisiting to cover one of the primary figures of this rubbish, Wal Thornhill. He runs the channel "Thunderbolts Project", and has basically dedicated his life to lying about science to make money on the internet. Let's go through some of his favorite talking points and explain why they're stupid, shall we?

Composition of Comet Hyakutake: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Deep Impact and Tempel 1: http://www.jerichardsonjr.info/Papers...
Chandra and Tempel 1: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...
Swift and Tempel 1: http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/pu...
Water on Tempel 1: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Composition of Hartley 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.3382.pdf
Diamagnetic Cavity at 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Halley's Coma:
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstr...
More on Tempel 1: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Cometary Xrays: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2002AS...
MIRO and 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
CONSERT and 67P: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Structure of 67P: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Exposed Water on 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Water and Carbon Dioxide on 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Rosetta Observations: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
67P Outburst: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
LIGOVirgo Detector Guide: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

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