"continually open to revision and re-examination" Absolutely, but your main point is moot. When you're wrong, sometimes you're just wrong. Science is not suppo

"continually open to revision and re-examination" Absolutely, but your main point is moot. When you're wrong, sometimes you're just wrong. Science is not supposed to accommodate bad ideas, and the arbiters of science are people. Usually, very smart and discerning people. When you delete stupid things that don't make sense, it's called tidying up, not censoring. People just have a hard time accepting that their ideas objectively suck, and that really shouldn't be surprising.