[tropdrop]

Because he repeatedly ignored fellow researchers pointing out that the seismic activity he attributed to interstellar impact did not differ from seismic activity recorded at that location whenever a heavy truck drove on the main road near the detector.

Although I agree with you that "humiliating" might be too loaded a word (but it drives clicks, so here we are).

[hersko]

If you read his rebuttal (which is linked in the article) he explains that he was relying on DOD satellites, not the seismic stations. The article doesn't even mention that....

[zardo]

I think the DOD satellites are the data the article refers to do not release information on measurement accuracy. So every measurement is + or - [REDACTED]