[King Prout]

dodger,
How many geologists were in the top of their form between 1915 and 1960?
You claimed theat NOT ONE of them EVER accepted continental drift in this time period.
You have since crawdadded off this absolutism, but have not yet admitted openly that you posted pure BS.
Do so, dodger.
or don't.
either way, you add to the public record.

[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.