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KypDurron t1_iqxyks0 wrote

Reply to comment by supercyberlurker in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

I'm gonna call bullshit. If your teacher didn't think Pangea existed, why was she showing you a map of it?

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Fugg_Your_Pronouns t1_iqy1s0e wrote

She could have been a Christian teacher (young earth creationist) who didn't agree with the material in the book?

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