Exactly. However, Post-Normal Science was already being practiced, and no scientist who wanted to keep their job would have dared. Establishment science’s treatment of Velikovsky was way off the scale of legitimate skepticism long before a single of his predictions panned out. Anyone who has ever heard the warning “better get with the program” or something like it knows what is expected of them. Few are willing to buck the system.
Velikovsky, if I remember correctly, had doctorates in a couple of the sciences as well as psychoanalysis. I thought his books, Earth in Upheaval, Ages in Chaos, and another..?...were beautifully written, some passages almost poetic.
You have to be outside of the system to say anything about it. These new findings however might turn out to be some sort of a final nail in the coffin of deep-time paradigms.