speaking of nonsense theories, in geology there were still a couple of academic holdouts in the 90s that subscribed to the expanding earth theory
that the earth was getting bigger (less dense) and this was driving continental drift and other things. Despite it having almost nothing to commend it, it wasn't until around a decade ago where geodetic measurements were accurate enough to falsify it completely.
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