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by freeflight 2329 days ago
> 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...