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I read on articles before that this theory, along with others during the age of New Global Tectonics, were once dismissed by academics. Also, Harry Hess' paper on seafloor spreading seem to confirm this by saying the same studies as "radical". If so, what did people think of the Earth back then?
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It is reminiscent to the hostility towards Ignaz Semmelweis' germ theory. But that was in the 1860s. The criticism of Wegener's work continued to the 1950s--arguably well into the era of modern science.
How could the critics have maintained their flat-earth type theories for so long?
Isn't this a textbook case of evidence being ignored because some scientists had established careers on contrary (incorrect) theories and were determined not to be embarrassed/proven wrong?
It is reminiscent to the hostility towards Ignaz Semmelweis' germ theory. But that was in the 1860s. The criticism of Wegener's work continued to the 1950s--arguably well into the era of modern science.
How could the critics have maintained their flat-earth type theories for so long?
Isn't this a textbook case of evidence being discounted because some scientists had established careers on contrary (incorrect) theories and were determined not to be embarrassed/proven wrong?
