She shouldn’t have used the phrase “clear link” and instead, should have used the term ‘conjecture’. That is more than a nuance, it is a critical descriptor. To use the phrase “clear link” would likely have disqualified me in front of my doctoral committee.
On the other hand, if there is indeed a “clear link”, then this lady is in league with the greatest thinkers of all time, which in my sense of probabilities is nonexistent. Ergo, she’s weird.
“She shouldn’t have used the phrase “clear link†and instead, should have used the term ‘conjecture’. That is more than a nuance, it is a critical descriptor. “
IMO what she is describing doesn’t rise to the level of conjecture, supposition, postulation, hypothesis or even SWAG. It is an idea based almost solely on her imagination. Furthermore WHY she has chosen to propose this is a mystery. Are there no KNOWN and understood mechanisms to explain this? Its well understood that a planet, comet, or other large body passing by an object can change its trajectory. Its observable and testable. Why invoke dark matter? Why suggest it has anything to do with dinosaur extinction? Its science fiction.