On the latest claim that black holes cannot exist

There's a news item making the rounds about a claim by theorist George Chapline that black holes cannot exist, combined with the strange claim that they are really "dark energy stars". The conference proceeding is very short and refers to papers I haven't studied, but it's the sort of claim that strikes me as almost certainly wrong, and now I discover that Jacques Distler pretty effectively ripped it apart in March after hearing about it in a colloquium talk.

( more black hole blather )