Wal Thornhill is a Complete Fraud (Thunderbolts Project Debunked)

To start learning STEM for free, visit https://www.brilliant.org/ProfessorDaveExplains/ and the first 200 people will get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. 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.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2001JE001838 Deep Impact and Tempel 1: http://www.jerichardsonjr.info/Papers/mfahearn_SCI2005.pdf Chandra and Tempel 1: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.462.6447&rep=rep1&type=pdf Swift and Tempel 1: http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/publist/Willingale_ApJ_649_541_2006.pdf Water on Tempel 1: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2006/12/aahi281.pdf Composition of Hartley 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.3382.pdf Diamagnetic Cavity at 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2016/04/aa27728-15.pdf Halley's Coma: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/94666/grl3718.pdf;sequence=1 More on Tempel 1: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2012/06/aa18718-11.pdf Cometary X-rays: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2002ASPC..264..254L MIRO and 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2015/11/aa26152-15.pdf CONSERT and 67P: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/Suppl_2/S805/4705912 Structure of 67P: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103517304165 Exposed Water on 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2016/11/aa28764-16.pdf Water and Carbon Dioxide on 67P: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2015/11/aa26303-15.pdf Rosetta Observations: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/Suppl_2/S396/4036875 67P Outburst: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/469/Suppl_2/s606/4565550 LIGO-Virgo Detector Guide: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e/pdf Electric Universe debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9q-v4lBGuw SAFIRE debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmVdPgkudC8 Sky Scholar debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo Suspicious0bservers debunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fTLZTEE7mU Watch my other debunks/debates/discussions: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveDebunk EMAIL► [email protected] PATREON► http://patreon.com/ProfessorDaveExplains Check out "Is This Wi-Fi Organic?", my book on disarming pseudoscience! Amazon: https://amzn.to/2HtNpVH Bookshop: https://bit.ly/39cKADM Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3pUjmrn Book Depository: http://bit.ly/3aOVDlT