Re:Some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable recor...
by WalterBright on Friday October 19, 2018 @05:27PM
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Just to add to that, scientists (especially young ones) would love to make their careers by proving existing theories wrong. Every physicist wants to be Einstein, every archaeologist wants to find a lost city, etc.
There's no reason anyone who believes the accepted truth is wrong can't go do some research to prove otherwise. (Like Schliemann did.)
Expecting others to be obliged to investigate one's own crackpot theories isn't fair. Their reluctance to do so is not evidence of a conspiracy against the truth.
For example, in the 1970's a popular theory was that 100 mpg carburetors existed, and a vast conspiracy by Big Oil was suppressing all information about them. The proof of this conspiracy was, naturally, nobody was able to find any evidence of such carburetors.