Posted by MickMck on 25/3/2020, 11:28 am, in reply to "Re: Poll"
To be accurate, they generally don't and never have done. When scientists come up with a new field of thought other scientists initially resist and hold on to the old fields of thought.
So you have opposing views for years or decades until one view eventually prevails. And that view is what becomes fixed in the general memory; in a similar way that the average football fan can remember the league or cup winners but not the runners-up, semi-finalists or third and fourth placed teams.from way back unless they're nerds or anoraks.