Monday, November 8, 2010

RIDICULED DISCOVERERS, VINDICATED MAVERICKS, revolutionary science

http://amasci.com/weird/vindac.html

Robert L. Folk (existence and importance of nanobacteria)

Discovered bacteria with diameters far below 200nM widely present in mineral samples, able to both metabolize metals and to create calcium encrustations. Proposed their large role in creation of "metamorphic" rock and everyday metal corrosion. These ideas were rejected with hostility because the bacterial diameter is too small to include enough genetic material or ribosomes, and they seem immune to common sterilization techniques.

Galileo (supported the Copernican viewpoint)

It was not the church authorities who refused to look through his telescope. It was his fellow scientists! They thought that using a telescope was a waste of time, since even if they did see evidence for Galileo's claims, it could only be because Galileo had bewitched them.

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