Talk:Younger Dryas impact theory

Justification for this redirect
I'm aware that some may find this redirect to be controversial due to the term "theory" being associated with the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH). With that in mind, I thought I'd get ahead of some of the potential pushback and provide some justification for it so as to ease any concerns.

Most notably, and the reason for my attention to this, was a paper published in Earth-Science Reviews. The fact that a suggestion that the YDIH should now be referred to as a theory made it through peer review is telling.

Prior to that though, there also appears to have been at least a few instances of the term being used in reliable sources.

You could maybe argue that they were using the term incorrectly, but I think that the existence of the news articles alone would still be reason enough to keep this redirect. Aluxosm (talk) 10:43, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

For more context, this is from just over a year before Sweatman's paper:

Aluxosm (talk) 01:52, 16 June 2021 (UTC)