>Everything we accept as science started off as "kooky". An excellent example of this from modern times: >An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule

>Everything we accept as science started off as "kooky". An excellent example of this from modern times: >An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals. “People just laughed at me,” Shechtman recalled in an interview this year with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, noting how Linus Pauling, a colossus of science and double Nobel laureate, mounted a frightening “crusade” against him, saying: “There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists.” After telling Shechtman to go back and read the textbook, the head of his research group asked him to leave for “bringing disgrace” on the team. “I felt rejected,” Shachtman remembered. https://www.reuters.com/article/nobel-chemistry/corrected-update-3-ridiculed-crystal-work-wins-nobel-for-israeli-idUSL5E7L51U620111005 https://www.reuters.com/article/nobel-chemistry/corrected-up...