a theory killed with a fact (or, several.)

The dynamics of SRB-booster burning is illuminating </pun>
And the explanation of the non-thermite-like composition and especially, non-uniform admixture sans a decent oxidizer, in the H. application -- pretty much suffices to discredit the entire Bain conjecture.
(Think I used a different perchlorate to make thermite, not that it matters.) And ya can't argue with Joules when speaking of energy transfers for whatever aim. The 'mantle' point re illumination is equally incisive, re. masking of the oft-dim spectral output of common (pure) flammable gases; as in Duh.

I had presumed.. that Bain had done all the basic physics calcs (as a 1 hour program had no time to list, for a general audience.) Bad moi, ass-uming.. thus, guilty of Murican-level sloth :-/
(Hell, probably lots of folks at PBS are as innumerate as the average.)

Maybe the Challenger deaths-via-O-ring Idiocy was not so rare an oversight at NASA.
Took someone from <cough> The Institute to apply that rigor which makes -mortis so familiar a term.

Thanks -- Dessler/Colo. link belongs in Snopes IMhO.
Be curious to see what your search string was, to nail this fine rebuttal.
It's so much more fun than the neutralizing of some tea-party babble / of which there is So Much, now.