[Angostura]

Again, that's the way that science tends to operate - a la Kuhn and his Structure of Scientific Revolutions. You have some novel research that seems to contradict well-established consenus. It comes under close scrutiny, because science tends to be conservative. If after giving it a good kicking, its clear that the old consensus is wrong, science takes the wrecking ball to it. But it prefers not to get the wrecking ball out of it can help it.

[freeflight]

> You have some novel research that seems to contradict well-established consenus. It comes under close scrutiny, because science tends to be conservative.

Indeed, even people we nowadays consider brilliant minds of their time, encountered plenty of resistance [0] during these very same times because their proposed ideas just seemed too outrageous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_rel...