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by chc 5438 days ago
I see little actual science on that site. What concrete claims there are appear mostly to be conspiracy theories and attempts at "logical refutation" that are extremely similar to the kind you'll find on holocaust denial sites.

Moreover, the "electric universe" hypothesis is well-known and widely rejected by those with expertise in the subject matter. We should not simply trust extraordinary claims by some shoddy website that does little to establish its credibility.

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I clicked on one, and it was discouragingly bad. It pivots on the phrase "as the picture shows…" — which is a hallmark of crackpot claims, from Bigfoot to canals on Mars. The fact that two galaxies appear to be connected by "light" in a photograph is no more evidence that they are actually connected than a photo where the sun blows out a tree's leaves is proof that the sun is a small orb floating a few feet above the earth.