His_Desolate_Domain t1_iqyhj55 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 12:50 AM

Reply to comment by KypDurron 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 mean, what evidence was there for the alternative, that was completely wrong?

rukisama85 t1_iqymoix wrote on October 4, 2022 at 1:28 AM

Well, if you're serious, the evidence that the continents didn't move was that nobody had ever seen them move, and they were in the same place they always had been as far back as there were records, at least as much as was possible to measure with the technology of the time.