Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

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Interesting, it seems @Brian Dunning is saying the study/paper showing a positive correlation between detected transients and nuclear testing was based on just 9 transients?!:

The Skeptoid episode is not accurate about the publication history and misattributed the origin of the nine transients.

The nine transients were actually introduced in a June 2021 paper, "Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950" (Villarroel et al.). The Hambly and Blair rebuttal paper (2024) was written specifically to analyze and refute the nine transients from that 2021 paper, not the later 2025 ones.