Few scientific theories are submitted to the rigors of the scientific method as otherwise we would have never had to change our mind about anything.
In fact maybe it's the scientific method that allows us to find 'empericle' evidence for almost any theory we have.
Cargo cult has little to do with pseudoscience and everything to do with the ' GOTG, if you will.
The cargo cult incidence just shows that people
will believe what suits them when they do not have enough knowledge to objectively consider the implications of their observations.
And funnily the the people who most often use that word are physicists! I'm just a lay person but i think i know BS when i see it and that's pretty
much what quantum 'physics' is.
Scientist do not like submitting to peer review, which is why they lie so often in journals and never offer corrections, are just as dogmatic about
what butters their bread and put as much emphasis on falsifying the data that ensures a paycheck as any sane person would. Human beings are in my
opinion self serving and the scientific method is a IDEAL that is rarely adhered to in practice.
They also call LERN pseudoscience and have for the last few thousands of years quit consistently chosen the less descriptive and useful theory over
the more descriptive and useful one.
* Arrhenius (ion chemistry)
* Alfven, Hans (galaxy-scale plasma dynamics)
* Baird, John L. (television camera)
* Bakker, Robert (fast, warm-blooded dinosaurs)
* Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (black holes in 1930)
* Chladni, Ernst (meteorites in 1800)
* Doppler (optical Doppler effect)
* Folk, Robert L. (existence and importance of nanobacteria)
* Galvani (bioelectricity)
* Harvey, William (circulation of blood, 1628)
* Krebs (ATP energy, Krebs cycle)
* Galileo (supported the Copernican viewpoint)
* Gauss, Karl F. (nonEuclidean geometery)
* Binning/Roher/Gimzewski (scanning-tunneling microscope)
* Goddard, Robert (rocket-powered space ships)
* Goethe (Land color theory)
* Gold, Thomas (deep non-biological petroleum deposits)
* Gold, Thomas (deep mine bacteria)
* Lister, J (sterilizing)
* Margulis, Lynn (endosymbiotic organelles)
* Mayer, Julius R. (The Law of Conservation of Energy)
* Marshall, B (ulcers caused by bacteria, helicobacter pylori)
* McClintlock, Barbara (mobile genetic elements, "jumping genes", transposons)
* Newlands, J. (pre-Mendeleev periodic table)
* Nottebohm, F. (neurogenesis: brains can grow neurons)
* Ohm, George S. (Ohm's Law)
* Ovshinsky, Stanford R. (amorphous semiconductor devices)
* Pasteur, Louis (germ theory of disease)
* Prusiner, Stanley (existence of prions, 1982)
* Rous, Peyton (viruses cause cancer)
* Semmelweis, I. (surgeons wash hands, puerperal fever )
* Tesla, Nikola (Earth electrical resonance, "Schumann" resonance)
* Tesla, Nikola (brushless AC motor)
* J H van't Hoff (molecules are 3D)
* Warren, Warren S (flaw in MRI theory)
* Wegener, Alfred (continental drift)
* Wright, Wilbur & Orville (flying machines)
* Zwicky, Fritz (existence of dark matter, 1933)
* Zweig, George (quark theory)
* Ball lightning (lacking a theory, it was long dismissed as retinal afterimages)
* Catastrophism (ridicule of rapid Earth changes, asteroid mass extinctions)
* Child abuse (before 1950, doctors were mystified by "spontaneous" childhood bruising)
* Cooperation or altruism between animals (versus Evolution's required competition)
* Instantaneous meteor noises (evidence rejected because sound should be delayed by distance)
* Mind-body connection (psychoneuroimmunology, doctors ridiculed any emotional basis for disease)
* Perceptrons (later vindicated as Neural Networks)
* Permanent magnet levitation ("Levitron" shouldn't have worked)
www.amasci.com...
And that's a very short list of all the theories that were effectively suppressed for various lengths of time. I can offer some useful quotes by
numerous Nobel prize winners as to how they hard and long they had to fight against dogmatic and useless skepticism/envy.
