Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales

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Fascinating read, but I don't appreciate the clickbait title. Why not use the actual title, which is a much better description? "Memories of the End of the Last Ice Age, from Those Who Were There." There's not much in the actual article about scientists having ignored ancient flooding tales and suddenly paying attention.

I don't know how the link got changed - but this is what I submitted. And the title was "Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales"

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/indigeno...

Interesting, perhaps there is some Hacker News voodoo magic that links to the original somehow. Maybe it looks for "This story was originally published in <link>" and follows that?

So I see the Atlantic is to blame for the clickbait headline, unsurprising. I guess their deal is "we can publish your story but we will change the headline to something people will click on."

But enough ranting about clickbait, I realize I'm detracting from the conversation and I hope I didn't sound too hostile. Thank you for posting this article, it's really fascinating to contemplate ancient geologies.

Much more about all the stories scientists may choose to ignore is found in the book "Hamlet's Mill" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet%27s_Mill], which was "severely criticized by academics" after publication in 1969. Like most out-of-the-orthodox-mainstream evidence of its day (and nearly-all unorthodox ideas in Wikipedia today).

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