Contemporary orthodox science is controlled by an oligarchy of grant fund junkies and ideological brahmins. Absolutely no science will be funded that does not fit into accepted doctrine, ie., big bang, black hole, dark matter and so on.
For example, the approach to anthropology known as “diffusionism” popularized by outcast scientists such as Thor Heyerdahl and Barry Fell, in which it is observed that ancient civilizations were massively ocean-going and ocean-colonizing, was made poitically incorrect by controller elements who basically couldn’t admit to themselves that ancient people had the smarts in maritime construction or geometry to navigate the globe. For generations diffusionists have been vilified and ridiculed by academia and refused access to peer-reviewed journals or university tenure.
Now, the Human Genome project data is proving that waves of migration washed the world’s shores in all directions during the bronze age, that in fact, as inventor Buckminster Fuller once claimed, the birth of civilization occurred in riparian/riverine locations precisely because of the smarts necessary to sail a boat.
You must be kidding.
Thor Heyerdahl did some good work. Have you seen his massive two volume work on Easter Island? That was respected science.
But Barry Fell?