The trouble with academia.

[ViniB]

A nice little article I found on Wiki of all places . Rhenium187 decays to osmium187 with a half life decay rate of 41,000,000,000 years but this can vary down to about 33yrs. You've got to laugh .

Wait, what?? This level of variability borderlines with making crap up! I knew it was bad but omg

I do recall C14 - C12 decay rate being "adjusted" a few times over the decades. Think this was due to tree ring dating not agreeing with given radiometric dates if I recall.

Yes, and chronology was the choosen tool for the adjustments, but that is a bigger problem since chronology is also made up quite a bit. It's like patching a hole with a bigger hole

 

[Jd755]

Yes the academics simply make things up.

 

[FarewellAngelina]

Rhenium–osmium dating - Wikipedia

Should have put this in my above post - think I was laughing to much at the time

 

[ViniB]

Well, that takes radiometric dating out of the scientific method for me . Decay rates may be assumed to be variable for all isotopes if science is to to be taken seriously. Would take a big stretch of the imagination to trust any of the isotope decay rate dates .

Yet the standard npc response against any criticism to radiometric dating goes like this

Edit: i just found out another example, a bit more extreme: There is another example of bound-state beta decay influencing radioactive decay, and this one is downright weird: Dysprosium-163. Dy-163 is stable. But if you strip off all of its electrons, it can have a bound-state beta decay into Holmium-163 with the electron going into the unoccupied K or L shell. Fully ionizing this normally non-radioactive isotope gives it half-life of just 47 days. I’ll claim that’s an infinite increase in rate.

 

[Jd755]

I'm just reading this and the dating methodology is utter tripe. So wide so vague completely useless. Never mind the notions the various people use to describe something few of them have actually clapped eyes on.

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