This article explores a case study of how the scientific community reacted to a paper that made a remarkable claim about a cosmic airburst event in the past, only to be refuted by subsequent research.
Dr. Kevin C. Nolan and a team of scholars refuted a paper claiming a comet explosion caused the decline of the Hopewell culture 1,500 years ago. The team found the evidence inadequate and identified no catastrophic event or decline in the culture, also noting possible intentional data manipulations