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I really wonder if some of this is accepted because it "came from the mind of so and so..." or if they are making a unique observation.
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That's a very good question. I know of a guy here at my university who has many theories about the origins of the unverse etc. He's had these theories written up for years and years. In the past he was constantly and consistently shunned by peer reviewed journals etc and his theories were said to be the stuff fruitcakes are made of. Then some guys at NASA did some research and observed exactly what this guy had been saying all along. These NASA guys came up with peer reviewed papers and only after that was he accepted. He was on the news a while back and said something to the effect of it being because they were NASA people that they were listened to and that the truth finally came out. Understandably .. he was a little sore at the establishment.