YehNahYer t1_ir1pgb1 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 6:14 PM Reply to 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 And the guy that came up with tectonic plate theory in the 60s was widely ridicules by the scientific concensus. They wrote peer reviewed papers to discredit him and used propaganda and appeal to authority to undermine him. The same thing happened with Einstein. 100 scientists banded together and wrote a paper on how wrong he was. I like the 1960 example better because it's recent history of the concensus being wrong and should have taught us concensus isn't science. But here we are taxing the crap out of people for an unproven garbage CO2 theory using garbage models and concensus as "the science". Politicians controlling science.. Permalink 0
YehNahYer t1_ir1pgb1 wrote
Reply to 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
And the guy that came up with tectonic plate theory in the 60s was widely ridicules by the scientific concensus.
They wrote peer reviewed papers to discredit him and used propaganda and appeal to authority to undermine him.
The same thing happened with Einstein. 100 scientists banded together and wrote a paper on how wrong he was.
I like the 1960 example better because it's recent history of the concensus being wrong and should have taught us concensus isn't science.
But here we are taxing the crap out of people for an unproven garbage CO2 theory using garbage models and concensus as "the science".
Politicians controlling science..