[kranke155]

Tectonic plates were considered ridiculous. Evolution was debated for decades. Galileo went on trial. Pasteur afaik didn’t find it easy to convince people. Virtually all breakthroughs I can think of, “eminent men” came and told everyone it was hogwash, till it wasn’t.

That’s not say you should defend bad science. Just that great Science might appear like nonsense - at first.

[hutzlibu]

"Galileo"

His opponents were not scientists, but priests.

Resistance against evolution likewise. Fueled by religion, not science.

And tectonic plates was just a theory among many, with unclear data at that time. Pasteur likewise.

Real scientists also made mistakes, more so when their reputation is based on the old theory. But in general if there is a new theory that provides a model that works (its calculation fit reality), then it will be adopted. I don't know of a case where this did not happen.

[kranke155]

This planetary theory could just be a theory that has “unclear data at the time”, the time being now. Or it could not be. All I’m saying is we have to do the research and double check the evidence for it to be disproven.

Just saying that anyone who says “there’s resistance in the scientific community” can be right or wrong. The COVID vaccine rollout and subsequent confirmation of large amounts of vaccine injury was certainly a good case study. Happened just 24 months ago. There was lots of “resistance” until the papers confirmed a lot of what the naysayers were saying on day 30, but the papers arrived on day 300