Periodic reminder that the history of science is completely full of 'that weird guy that disagrees with the status quo experts and seems ridiculous' who turns out to actually be closer to the right track than the "experts".

In fact the story of those guys (and they are mostly guys) *is* pretty much a first order approximation of the history of science.
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@jeffcliff this is true. also true is that the history of whackjobs is full of 300x as many of these same people

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