echoing same comments i made then. HN gets really fringe when this comes up.
Dismissing all alternatives to standard cosmology as "fringe" is not helpful when standard cosmonlogy itself is "fringe".
Granted, there will be really far out there alt theories. The uncertainty of the context will bring out wild hypotheses. Figuring out who's a charlatan and who is in the ballpark can be difficult under these circumstances, but we have to.
Science is hard, and it takes a lot of work.
I’m guessing this is what the parent comment was referencing.