[muawiyah]

Look, I said the "new guys" accepted Weggener's thesis, but the "old guys" didn't ~ as an example of what really happens in science when it comes to the big questions.

That is, that a new paradigm is usually accepted by the younger scientists since they have no shot at the grants going to the older scientists who hold to the older paradigm. (Just in case you needed to be told what the motive is.)

Eventually the old guys pass on to their reward, and there's no one left to argue on behalf of the old paradigm.

Maybe your experience is different.

[King Prout]

no, you said "Not a scientist of his age ever adopted the Weggenerian view."

man-up and admit your error - otherwise I really have nothing more to say to you.