I would venture that many in the "soft" sciences and theory, and many/most/some/a few in the eco-sciences DO follow the "religion" of political scienctific correctness rather than facts and figures derived completely from hard data.
Why does Mars have 93% of its craters in one hemisphere and only 7% in the other?
I had not heard this data before, and it DOES raise some interesting questions: mainly about the game of pool! (Right here in River City!)
We've ALL clicked them balls around the table, with varying degrees of success, but consider a cosmic game: one using planets, moons and rocks.
It would appear that over 80% occurred within a single half-hour!
I suppose this COULD be true, if one made the assumption that MARS was ROTATING at the time, and also that there was a 'shotgun' effect of the crater forming missiles approaching as a fairly coherant grouping. Remember the breakup of the 'comet' a few years ago that impacted the planet Jupiter?
Have the astronomers noticed any change in Jupiters orbit from this? There HAS to be some change, but perhaps the VAST mass difference between the two would put any change down below the noise theshold of the measurements.
Anyway, by ESTIMATING mass of the crater formers on MARS, the astronomers could input this data into their computers and work backward to see where MARS was BEFORE the impacts occured.