[NorthMountain]

And in 1990 all the government-brainwashed skeptics in academia and the media insisted there were no planets orbiting other stars.

And on the other side of the fence was a critical mass of scientists with enough clout to get various exoplanet searches funded, equipment built, observations made, and papers published.

[sergeantdave]

Your statement is 100% accurate.

Low IQ skeptics have set human civilization 500 years back from where it should be.