Gotta love it when people ridicule interesting discoveries just because they're by people smarter and better educated than they are.
Seriously, did roving packs of scientists beat you up when you were a kid or something?
It's not that. Some people here (and on other conservative forums) actually believe the earth is 10,000 years old and anything that suggests otherwise is unacceptable to them. So they ridicule it.
Even today, the sight of one of thesegives me panic attacks.