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>do you think there is a cabal of powerful academics who have their identity so wrapped up in "Humans only came to the Americas 25,000 years ago" Unfortunately
by StanislavPetrov 4y ago
>do you think there is a cabal of powerful academics who have their identity so wrapped up in "Humans only came to the Americas 25,000 years ago"
Unfortunately there is a cabal of powerful academics in almost every field who have their identities and their professional reputations wrapped up in a wide variety of flimsy, dated conjecture. It is why the statement, "science advances one funeral at a time" was coined and remains so relevant.
- ncmncm 4y agoWhen Harlen Bretz finally received Geology's highest honor for his work on the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington state, literally all of his opponents, who had rabidly blighted his career, had died of old age. There are still lots of geologists and historians who insist there was no Younger Dryas Boundary bolide strike and continentwide conflagration responsible for extinction of most large North American genera; and plenty who still even insist on Clovis First. Topically, Bretz was hampered buy lack of a source for the many cubic miles of meltwater his scenario called for. (Lake Missoula did not suffice, though it was pressed into service.) It was finally resolved by proof of the bolide strike.