Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 20, 2021

Yes, Pam, but usually they’re just crackpots.

Dr Mel is being meta.

So, do we still support the ideas that those theories beat out? Space lady is going to support flat earthers now?

He should deal with the crackpot he can see in the mirror first.

Well, the big bang is still wrong because it’s an incomplete theory. There’s no meaning in saying that everything just suddenly appears outta nowhere and begins suddenly expanding after a big bang for no reason.

How about that. A comic book writer who is being fairminded, and does not want to censor everybody who disagree with him about anything. Good for him. Thank you.

Dr. Mel has a future with Big Tech when he leaves the space service.

All of Pam’s “people thought they were wrong” theories had science behind them. The naysayers had just one thing: nay.

Copernicus had the planets in perfectly circular orbits when he decided the sun was probably at the center of what we now call the solar system. He was wrong. Kepler and Galileo figured out the elliptical orbits. Copernicus was wrong in his model, but it didn’t mean those who saw the earth as the center of the universe were right. That being said, there are ideas that are simply wrong/stupid/dangerous… “Drink a cup of bleach and it will keep you from getting covid.” (So will jumping off the 27th floor of a building.)

The ratio of, crackpots who based their ideas on the evidence they could see vs. the crackpots who are completely bananas, needs to be considered here.

Plenty of nutcases with tin foil helmets are never going to be right, the pointing to Galileo and saying how he was once considered wrong too doesn’t change this.

From “Inherit the Wind”:

E. K. Hornbeck : [smiling] Because I know that the sunrise is an optical illusion. My teacher told me so.

Henry Drummond : Do you know that at the top of the world, the twilight lasts for six months?

Rachel Brown : Bert and I don’t live on the top of the world, we live in Hillsboro.

I remember a teacher laughing at me because I commented that it looked like the continents could fit together like a jig saw puzzle. I think that was the same teacher who told me dinosaur fossils weren’t found in North America.I can’t remember her name but I remember her stupidity.

“Misinformation” and “disinformation” = people I disagree with.

My account name? It’s Alice_Fist_of_Death

Dr. Mel is going to bite of more than he can chew if he messes with Pam’s Account.

In one of his history of technology programs, James Burke says peasants would talk about rocks that fell out of the sky. They were ridiculed by scientists until there was a revolution, and the peasants were in charge. Suddenly, the scientists were interested in meteorites.

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” – Carl Sagan

“I believe the Big Bang. God spoke it and BANG it happened” -Anon

Science once believed that there were only four elements: earth, wind, fire and water. Science once believed that atoms were indivisible. And let’s not forget about duck-and-cover during a nuclear blast. Etc, etc…

He has the power of the press.

Press the right button and her truth is gone.

Plate tectonics was accepted almost at once. It was Alfred Wegener’s decades-earlier theory of continental drift that was rejected, because it posited solid rock continents being dragged through a solid rock crust by the tides, and the math simply refused to work. When plate tectonics were discovered for completely unrelated reasons, it was quickly seen that a completely new theory of continental drift was possible, and this time it made sense.

All of this from a toon. Cute