[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Stefano Mori]

David Cake wrote:

> 	Again, another anecdote - there were a couple of guys from my home  
> city who managed to completely overturn medical understanding of a  
> major illness (stomach ulcers), absolutely arguing with the  
> orthodoxy every step of the way. They were right, their theory now  
> is the orthodoxy, they got Nobel prizes. The previous generation of  
> researchers - well, actually now agrees with them, no generational  
> change required, only a burden of proof. That is how the mechanisms  
> of science work - if someone had real, publishable, flaws in AGW  
> theory we would be seeing it in peer-reviewed journals. Scientists  
> would be getting excited about it, having long arguments about the  
> theory. Building alternative models in order to clarify how it  
> contrasts with the old theory.


And how long did it take for their new understanding to become accepted?

Stefano