But They Laughed At Alfred Wegener!
Pseudoscience abounds! Many methodologies and ideas are dressed up as science but are not put through carefully controlled and thoughtfully interpreted experiments. But what about Alfred Wegener in 1912? The scientists almost tarred and feathered him after his crazy idea was written. The continents once connected then later "drifting" apart? Please!
With continued questioning, investigating and testing plate tectonics was born. http://www.hartrao.ac.za/geodesy/tectonics.html
Read more stories of scientists like J.J. Thomson, Galileo and others who were falsely ridiculed only to be later recognized.
http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/pseudosci.html