[WarOnPrivacy]

> The controversy claimed is entirely overblown. Longer timelines for migration have been discussed widely for quite a while.

Are you saying that: Effective, significant resistance to pre-Clovis theories wasn't a thing in the latter 20th cent ?

[llm_trw]

The current year is 2024. There are phds out there who were born after 2000.

[WarOnPrivacy]

Sure but a mindset that is dominant enough to influence the direction of research can reasonably be expected to persist - even though there's turnover in the field.

[llm_trw]

If you entered academia in 2000 when this became the newly accepted wisdom you'd be around 50 now.

Face it you're just old and still think 2000 was four years ago.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> Face it you're just old

Again, sure. That's how I know professional mindsets can age a lot slower than people.

> you ... think 2000 was four years ago.

Hardly. Want time to go slow? Care for 5 kids + disabled spouse on your own. It makes regular years seem like mindset years.