Hopefully Edit in reply to your edit: Norvig's theories and conclusions are most certainly subject to being proven wrong by anyone who can manage to do so. Yo

Hopefully Edit in reply to your edit: Norvig's theories and conclusions are most certainly subject to being proven wrong by anyone who can manage to do so. You make it sound as if someone is attempting to force someone else to agree with his theories and conclusions, or to prevent someone from agreeing with opposing (or any other) set of conclusions and theories. I see no evidence of that, and come think of it, I do not see evidence of that figure "being bandied about as though it were an actual scientific fact", if you can provide evidence to the contrary, please, by all means do so, or better yet, disprove Norvig's theories and conclusions yourself, no one is stopping you.