With the help of others, I started this subreddit years ago because I thought there was a serious scientific question buried beneath decades of stigma, ridicule and noise. I’d had an unusual observation myself, which led me to Peter Sturrock’s work, “pseudo-stars”, historical primary sources, and eventually the realisation that the subject had been taken far more seriously in some scientific and institutional circles than the public conversation suggested. This is the kind of work I hoped we...