THE BIG RETORT

  The Former Catford Constitutional Club is soon to reopen as The Catford House pub and community centre in the autumn under Greenwich Cooperative agency management. The Big Retort did a walkby and managed to get a pre-opening invite inside to see the transformation. The project is being delivered by Lewisham Council supported by £1.8m in funding from the Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund. Hayatsu Architects have designed proposals for the refurbished building, as part of a team led by Turner Works, and Claremont Refurbishment.   Restoring the former Catford Constitutional Club The former Catford Constitutional Club is one of the oldest buildings in the town centre, the former Catford Constitutional Club, and bring it back into public use. We are working to restore one of the oldest buildings in the town centre, so briini=ging it back into public use is a wonderful initiative. The locally listed Victorian building was forced to close in August 2019 due to structural...

  The history of science is littered with innovators scorned by the establishment, yet few comparisons are as potent today as that between Avi Loeb and Galileo Galilei. Both—separated by four centuries—stand accused of practising "bad science" because they prioritise the interpretation of new anomalous observations over allegiance to the reigning theoretical dogma... The Big Retort The Case of Loeb: Dogma versus the Null Hypothesis Today, the established astronomical dogma means everything must be explained by known physics and chemistry before anyone dare mention an advanced intelligence greater than ours. This is enforced by the principle of Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is usually the correct one). Avi Loeb's "crime" is the suggestion that 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS could be extraterrestrial technological artefacts (ETAs) . Avi doesn't assert proof, but argues that these anomalies are so difficult to explain naturally that the ETA hy...