Discussion of PF Policy on Valid References

[Bystander]

Are we "there?"

 

[Vanadium 50]

How many times in the history of science has the current understanding been wrong, only to be changed by future discoveries? Take the Big Bang theory for instance. The recent JWST discoveries have challenged that.

First, no it hasn't.

But PF's mission is not to teach The Truth. It's to teach science at is currently practiced and constituted. In 1986 had we been around, we would have said "supernova progenitors are thought to be red". In 1987 we would have changed our mind., So what?

But allowing crackpot sources is not going to fix that.