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Remember when every person and their peer believed that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe?

This is simply not true. It was a popular position at one stage, but it wasn't "everyone thought it so".

Also, your scientific process does not allow for fields such as taxonomy or anatomy - you don't construct a hypothesis nor test it in fields like this.

Science is about rigorous observation. Peer-review provides a strong part of that rigor.



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