Science is ultimately self-correcting, but that can take decades. Sometimes you have to wait for distinguished asshole scientist to retire or die before happens

Science is ultimately self-correcting, but that can take decades. Sometimes you have to wait for distinguished asshole scientist to retire or die before happens. For example the Harvard Geology Department was the laughingstock of the world for taking so long to accept the thoery of plate tectonics. But eventually it did after rotating in a new generation of modern faculty.