[katana]

Sometimes scientists have too much invested in the status quo to accept a new way of looking at things.

Sometimes?? Academics in general, and not just in the sciences, defend whatever dogma and theory they've published like psychotic badgers defending a den.

[sparklite2]

It used to be ‘settled science’ that stomach ulcers were caused by stress/acid. When someone posited that the cause may have been Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), it was derided as heresy. But today, it’s settled.