Right As Usual

Amazingly, for a field of study that makes so much about being driven by impartial, logical reasoning, geology might be as prone to group-think as anthropology or sociology. This Atlantic article shows a prime example of that surprisingly convergent thinking of geologists on the various extinction theories. Most in the field support the meteor-hit in the Yucatan explanation. Dr. Geerta Keller, of Princeton, is a dissenter, whose hypothesis that massive volcanic activity in India triggered the mass extinctions. http://massextinction.princeton.edu/about I've generally found most of their science-related articles in The Atlantic are top-rate - accurate as to the science, while being accessible for the layman. That the dissenting scientist is a woman is a footnote. Other scientists who've experienced isolation and push-back have been males, from a minority culture, or Good Old Boys from the elite institutions. What is notable is that most of these dissenters come from ...