I answered a similar question in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369078 TLDR: That model w

I answered a similar question in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369078 TLDR: That model was fairly in line with what the scientific community was saying at the time. That excuse might have carried some weight in the early 70s but it was marginalized by scientific consensus in the 80s.