I think the only example of the insightful outsider was the fellow who ~ 80 years ago who went around espousing the continental drift theory ( http://en.wikiped

I think the only example of the insightful outsider was the fellow who ~ 80 years ago who went around espousing the continental drift theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener ) though his ideas weren't necessarily a complete model, which may have been the crux of the issue