dreeter00 t1_iqzyw67 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 10:23 AM

Reply to comment by Gyalgatine 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

But mostly wrong. They're not plowing through as much as they are riding over/oceanic plates are subducting under them. Continental crust is not pushing through an oceanic plate.