Comment by dist-epoch

> Science is a process for resolving disagreements, ambiguity, and uncertainty ... It is social

More dramatically stated as: Science progresses one funeral at a time.

> An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle