“To one studying the history of science, it even seems that the more certain are the proponents of a theory, the more likely they are to be wrong …” [James Lawrence Powell, Grand Canyon, Solving Earth’s Grandest Puzzle]
The history of Science is filled with certainties that were false. One of these used to be, "There are no Precambrian fossils." There have been many other "facts" that were "Settled Science" that have had to be rejected when new evidence or reasoning arose. Here is a short paper on the subject.
https://davidfmayer.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-settled-science-a33/comments
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