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Originally Posted by opendoor
I mean, it's possible the entire scientific community and its decades of research is completely wrong on this issue, but that's not a bet I'd take. I also think people are vastly overestimating how dogmatic science is. It can change on a dime if someone can posit a better hypothesis and have it stand up to rigors of review.
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It can happen if an underlying assumption changes or something, but the assumptions are usually well identified and understood.
Scientists that completely upset the paradigm that makes everyone throw out everything usually get rewarded with a special prize
I think we forget how much science actually does accept change, it wasn't that long ago (within living memory) that we had no idea about galaxies beyond our own and the universe was considered static.. accepting the notion of the big bang (which had pretty religious overtones) is a good example of changing pretty quickly.