Professor Blank gets to hear of it and finds that this new theory explains the case which his theory could not explain. He risks losing a lot of funding and his special status as originator of current theory. Do you expect him to speak up at this point in the interest of science?
People are people. In the long run someone else will also come up with the new explanation. That has been the history of advance for as far as we have records.
In the end, reality always wins.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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