I really don't care about the copyright issue. But I find Talbott's attitude to be interesting. Despite the problems with the theory, he's digging his heels in, and he's trying to make it sound like a holy war that he's fighting. That kind of entrenchment is the end of objective reasoning. And that's my whole problem with the Electric Universe camp. If you come up with a new theory, you're going to get criticized. But if you let the criticisms make you feel embattled, such that you have to defend your position against attacks, and then, if you let that blind you to problems with your position, in the end, you will have defeated yourself.

 

And what is the evidence that the EU in entrenched?

 

Their position hasn't changed in 10 years. A lot has been learned in that time, and we now have solid evidence that at least some of their assertions are wrong. But they haven't budged. That means that they're entrenched.