reply to post by EdenKaia
I love that we are constantly proving ourselves wrong, but you can understand how this might just make one of those professors you are talking about
look fairly foolish, if the theory their entire career is based upon is suddenly and inarguably debunked.
Yep things are moving along nicely. Just in my time I've seen large movements in our knowledge level.
I think you might be buying into a myth, in the Archaeological field I cannot think of anyone who built their careers on single theory. When new
evidence comes in that evidence get incorporated rather quickly (in an academic sense).
Hmmm Byrd can you think of any example of this? I cannot think of one but has this happened?
It would have to be something where someone has stated that something couldn't exist or didn't exist or x is right and y is wrong.
Clovis pre-clovis might be an example but that battle is still going on but the Clovis first seem to be losing.
I'm thinking of the Japanese professor who went with the theory that Yonaguni was artifical and x years old. That hasn't come to be accepted but I
noticed he publishes stuff on other matters.
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