[js1138]

I maintain what I wrote. The history of science is that many major shifts in view come from outside the field of study because of the groupthink inside a discipline that renders them crippled (often) when it comes to examining their own beliefs in the mirror.

That would explain the Copernican revolution, which was not, as commonly believed, brought about by people who studied astronomy, but by telephone sanitizers.

Same with quantum theory, which was rejected for centuries by the ensconced physics establishment, and only came to our attention through the valiant efforts of outsiders like Velikovsky.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I enjoy the humor. I stand by the history of idea shifts. And sometimes it's one person who stands against his discipline. sometimes for decades before his idea, which was ridiculed, is now accepted as proven. He is an outsider, even while working to prove an idea.