I think we’ll have to agree to disagree a little bit here, but we agree on the central bit: new evidence must be considered on its own merits, and scientific conclusions must be accepted, however strange and distasteful they are.
But let me share my favorite example of this problem in science:
“For no bias can be more constricting than invisibility—and stasis, inevitably read as absence of evolution, had always been treated as a non-subject. How odd, though, to define the most common of all palaeontological phenomena as beyond interest or notice! Yet paleontologists never wrote papers on the absence of change in lineages before punctuated equilibrium granted the subject some theoretical space. And, even worse, as paleontologists didn’t discuss stasis, most evolutionary biologists assumed continual change as a norm, and didn’t even know that stability dominates the fossil record.”
Stephen Jay Gould & Niles Eldredge, Punctuated Equilibrium Comes Of Age 1993
I think we’ll have to agree to disagree a little bit here, but we agree on the central bit: new evidence must be considered on its own merits, and scientific conclusions must be accepted, however strange and distasteful they are.
But let me share my favorite example of this problem in science:
“For no bias can be more constricting than invisibility—and stasis, inevitably read as absence of evolution, had always been treated as a non-subject. How odd, though, to define the most common of all palaeontological phenomena as beyond interest or notice! Yet paleontologists never wrote papers on the absence of change in lineages before punctuated equilibrium granted the subject some theoretical space. And, even worse, as paleontologists didn’t discuss stasis, most evolutionary biologists assumed continual change as a norm, and didn’t even know that stability dominates the fossil record.”
Stephen Jay Gould & Niles Eldredge, Punctuated Equilibrium Comes Of Age 1993