Super_Silky t1_iqy5bcs wrote on October 3, 2022 at 11:15 PM

Reply to comment by KypDurron in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

Kinda like how Gugliemo Marconi beat both Tesla and Edison to the invention of wireless telegraph tech specifically because he wasnt shackled by scientific dogma? His views on the "ether" have been soundly disproved but he got results even if his reasoning for it was deeply flawed. Its one thing to not be "accepted uncritically" but the issue is the massive ridicule being lobbed just because theories dont fit neatly into established and "accepted" paradigms.

BarrelRoll1996 t1_iqzu03l wrote on October 4, 2022 at 9:15 AM

Not sure why downvoted, at surface level his reasons were bunk but still got him a nobel prize.