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So I followed the articles back to Nature|Scientific Reports and found a long trail. It looks like there is some controversy concerning the conclusions reached in the first report. Which is very typical of anything that strikes back at our present ideological age - "believe the science!". And the rewrite the science if you don't like its conclusions.

This is similar to the complaints about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis creating the Carolina Bays phenomenon, and there are plenty of geologists who do not like talented amateurs intruding into their club.

So if you like rabbit trails, follow along!

The first and original publication:

A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, dated Sept 20/27 2021.

Then there are two authors corrections:

Author Correction: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, dated Feb 22, 2022; and

Author Correction: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, dated May 22 2023.

I see few article that include author corrections, and these seem (to me) to be minor corrections to the process and writing, but do not change the conclusions of the article.

And here is a "rebuttal" to the original article:

No mineralogic or geochemical evidence of impact at Tall el-Hammam, a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea by Steven J Jaret and R Scott Harris.

And the editors from Springer Nature of course, must grab for a fig leaf along the way:

15 February 2023: Editor’s Note: Readers are alerted that concerns raised about the data presented and the conclusions of this article are being considered by the Editors. A further editorial response will follow the resolution of these issues.

So the scientific mafia is out with long knives to suppress anything that coincides with their ideology. After reading the challenges, it does seem that Jaret and Harris are objecting to the possibility of an extra-terrestrial event causing the destruction of Tall el-Hamman.

To me, locating the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, their instant destruction and corroborating an eyewitness account (in Genesis) seem to be a more important conclusion.