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Originally Posted by R.A.F.
When the probe didn't crash, he "could" have simply admited that he was wrong, but no...he had to go on and on about how the descent was not "as it should be" in an effort to "save face" with his "variable gravity" idea.
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Jerry has been admitting his mistakes many times. How do you know that this particular case was "in an effort to "save face"" rather than case of Jerry genuinely seeing possibility for his hypothesis to survive? Did Jerry tell you this, or are you a mindreader?
Theories don't usually get abandoned at the sight of first trouble without thinking of possible ways the theory could still work or ways to correct the theory in order to make it work. That has been done many times to mainstream theories such as Big Bang theory, but perhaps that has also been only in an effort to "save faces".