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CoolmanWilkins t1_iqy6lq9 wrote

Reply to comment by MechTheDane 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

He was mostly an astronomer and meteorologist though. He was literally just a dude who noticed all the continents fit together like jigsaw pieces. That's literally all he had but he was right.

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GiovanniBezerra t1_iqzqvs9 wrote

History is full of people who were right being ridiculed or worse.

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dreeter00 t1_iqzz0qw wrote

He had more than that. Matching fossil and geologic strata/formations from where the continents would connect, but yeah, no smoking gun.

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