The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

That's how its supposed to work but there are plenty of scientists who treat 'established' theories and such as religious doctrine. Challenging conventional wisdom is seen as career suicide. The scientific community is pretty brutal in its inner politics. Its not as inflexible as Catholicism obviously, but then Religion is not in the business of flexibility.

I think this depends. Is the person challenging an "established" theory with evidence and a set of experiments to give him reasonable grounds to argue his case or is he just standing there arguing with claims that were debunked/have no strength to them or is otherwise just insisting its wrong without having any real reason.