Marx Toys’ classic Trachodon
Today’s science is tomorrow’s poppycock.
Poor Trachodon! One of my favorite dinosaurs. And they’ve drummed him out of the corps.
I had the books, I had the toys, I saw the skeletons–waddaya mean, “No such thing as Trachodon”? But then they always do this, don’t they? In fact, we wouldn’t have any science if they didn’t. Science requires constant revision.
The problem crops up when scientists pontificate to the public and suddenly you have this Settled Science that must never be questioned.
And then they base public policy and law on Settled Science that will be laughed at 20 years from now.