Its retraction shows that scientific conclusions aren’t decided by majority rule in the public square
In 2021 a multidisciplinary team of researchers claimed that a Tunguska-sized airburst, larger than any such airburst in human history, destroyed a Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea.
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Mark Boslough,
Scientific American,
25 June 2025
However, the most likely outcome would be a high-altitude airburst.
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