Re: Steel Man of Einstein & Relativity.

R.H.: Yes, the reification of space is an elementary fallacy, and as the
article cited actually shows, it is pervasive in SR & GR. It's funny
that Einstein denies the geometrization of space and then acknowledges
it, waffling. He's like a politician who was told to deny something. The
article is very ambiguous in this way.
It seems that either the doubled deflection is due to refraction or to
conforming observation to theory, as is continually done in relativity.
One problem with the refraction explanation is that it would result in
different results for observations on Earth and those by satellite. As
Paul correctly says, some observations have been done clearly outside
the solar corona. Edward Henry Dowdye Jr. attributes it to the solar
wind. I think we can't avoid concluding it is confirmation bias.