Problem with the arguments

[draco664]

Moments like that are fewer and far between now. You're not going to get any truly stupid ones like flat Earth anymore me thinks. Mainly because our methods have evolved into the scientific process. We no longer just make shit up to explain something we don't know or can't figure out.

You'd be surprised. It wasn't that long ago that a geologist was universally panned by his peers for suggesting that the crust of the earth was made up of giant "tectonic" plates.

Even recently there were some students who designed an experiment that did something considered impossible. According to their blog and animated video explaining the experiment, they only attempted it because they were new to the field and didn't know what they were attempting to produce was considered impossible.

[Gravekeeper]

You'd be surprised. It wasn't that long ago that a geologist was universally panned by his peers for suggesting that the crust of the earth was made up of giant "tectonic" plates.

Plate tectonics were first theorized around the 1590s. By the same guy that came up with the first world atlas. I assume after staring at his own maps and going "That's funny....". Though it would take a few more centuries before we had the capability to prove it.

Research and acceptance of the concept was also completely derailed by a little thing called WW2. Seeing as one of the scientists involved was German and the other two were British and Sicilian. >.>

Yes, it had some detractors in the scientific community, but it had just as many supporters. It was not universally panned and it was delayed because of our monkey tribe assholeness, not rejection by the scientific community. Most scientists during WW2 were working on other things ( and we all know how that turned out. )

Even recently there were some students who designed an experiment that did something considered impossible.

There's a difference between thinking something is impossible and arguing that something is impossible or otherwise different against evidence to the contrary. ESPECIALLY when it comes to quantum mechanics, where we just don't know enough and by its very nature, it farks with the scientific community on a weekly basis.