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Originally Posted by Gillianren
Okay, number one, that's not actually an answer. I'll accept it as one, but it isn't.
Number two . . . William Harvey did the work. He didn't just expect people to overthrow thousands of years' worth of belief. He provided evidence. Further, he didn't expect time on a message board to change science. He didn't think that blathering on, and on, and on in one place was actually going to accomplish something. They didn't have peer review per se in the 17th Century, but he went through the closest process they had.
Number three, you're missing my point. Yeah. Discussion here is limited to 30 days, and thank Gods for that. However, science as a whole eventually accepted his ideas, and within his own lifetime. So much for "science never accepts new ideas." If it doesn't accept yours, the more likely options are that you haven't provided enough evidence, you haven't done enough work, or you're wrong.
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All good points.
The best approach to solving a problem changes with time. William Harvey probably never looked anything up in Wikipedia or sold anything on Ebay.
About a year before Anderson published the gravitational assist anomally paper, I engaged in a series of Emails with one of his collaborators. Did this help persuade them to publish? Anderson pointed out he had access to unpublished data; he is also retired so he can question the mainstream all he wants - it might hurt his scientific credibility, but not his livelyhood. I don't have that luxury - in fact being labeled a radical has hurt my career.
I don't have the skills necessary to do the multivariant analysis of the Hipparcos data to test the hypothesis that the errors may have been the results of unexpected orbital paths divergence, or distortions in space: But someone who reads this may have that charter.
Newton was scoffed when he first introduced his laws - he didn't publish for what? Two decades, during which he worked out many of the details and gave us both the theory and the wonderful mathematical tools.
I don't have decades, and decades of time.
Do you?