Re: history of science: cases of mainstream in error

On Dec 25, 11:49 am, David Bernier <david...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm interested in compiling a list of cases in the history
of science where the mainstream view was in error in a period
when the mainstream was challenged, where mainstream means
natural philosophers, physicists, biologists, etc.

It's quite simple, you're living in one, "The Information Age".

And the people with brains in the area of information, just
keep asking the crank mainstreamers: "Just how do you plan on
funding the "information Age".

And the top three answers:

Crank Philosophers: We're going to fund it with History-On-The-Fly.
Stooges Physicists: We're going to fund ir with faster computers.
Idiot Bioloists: We're going to fund it with Psychologists.
Wasted Bozo Mathematicians We're going to fund it with Cell Phone
Calling Cards.







For example, in an other thread, I mentioned that physicists
gave a low maximum age to the sun before radio-activity
and nuclear reactions were discovered, which was
in quite sharp disagreement with estimates from earth scientists
for time needed to form of the Grand Canyon
[ this may or may not have been a point of disagreement, because
   it depends on what geologists theorized or knew about its
   formation ] , and a large amount of fossil evidence,
volcanoes, mountain formation and erosion, sedimentation,
and all else that geologists study ].

Another case:  in biology, Lamarck had a theory of
spontaneous generation of life:
so mold could form in a closed jar without any "seed"
form of life, in this theory.  Same for colonies
of bacteria.  Pasteur proved it false, if I've got
the story right.

David Bernier

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