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by chithanh 1551 days ago
> consensus stabilizies after around 50 years or so

One other reason for science being such a long-term process is Planck's Principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

Basically, scientific innovations spread by the old orthodoxy retiring/dying and replaced by successors who are familiarized with the new ideas (and then proceed to form the new orthodoxy).