The reason that quasar controversies can't stay alive in the "community" is illustrated by a story that Grote Reber told me. Grote was good friends with John Kraus the radio astronomer from Ohio State. Grote attended a big bang seminar with Kraus and sat quietly in the back of the room. During the Q & A afterwards a grad student asked: "What happened before the big bang?". He got an answer somewhat along the lines of "That's a meaningless question, it's like asking what's north of the north pole." Or something along those lines. Instead of shutting up, the guy kept asking, I know that, but I mean what happened BEFORE the big bang.

Grote said, "That poor grad student bloke had no chance whatever of ever getting his PhD from that gang."
Questioning the status quo, like the Boulder High students in the library, won't get you a PhD. Wait 'til you've got it, then maybe you can at least try to learn to think again.