This is a perfect example of paradigm shift in science. Here we have an untouchable belief amongst mainstream scientists that the Clovis people were the first Americans, arriving 13,000 years ago.
The leading scientific experts that were firmly entrenched in institutional power and prestige had their entire identities as the world's highest authorities tied to the "Clovis First" paradigm. These authorities were none too happy when a sight in Pennsylvania dated flint tools etc to over 14,000 years old. These world renowned experts, who made a career out if Clovus First, had a knee-jerk reaction to dismiss the new contrary evidence with baseless claims of contamination. They used their collective influence and power to control the narrative, dismissing the scientists that had discovered the older sight.
This new research was done properly. All potential objections had been adequately countered. The science was solid to a near certainty, but still no one in charge of the mainstream narrative took them seriously. The old guard would not let go of their entrenched positions. That must have been frustrating for the new researches..
When three and four more sites, predating Clovis, showed up in Americas, the old guard could no longer rely on their power and influence to dismiss all the new confounding evidence from multiple sites. The narrative just changed, quietly without fanfare. There were no apologies; no accountability from the old guard.
They just tip toed away from their earlier position as quietly as possible. They never owned up to the way they used their power and influence to discredit and dismiss the new scientists and their data that clearly showed Clovis First was wrong the whole time.
They never owned up to their egotistical need to be right, to stay in control, to hold onto their power: no matter how antithetical to science that position required them to act. They didn't put science first. They put their egos first. And thus, they never had the humility and honesty to say... "we're sorry... we had it wrong... you were right the whole but we were too attached to our beliefs to see the truth, even when it was right in front of our eyes."
That my friends is the reality of how science actually works in this world. Science is after all conducted by human scientists who are just as frail and subject to human shortcomings as the rest of us.
No one likes to admit they were wrong. No one wants to own that they were fooled and clinging stubbornly to the mainstream narrative, even after overwhelming evidence to the contrary came to light.
And most of all no one wants to apologize to the people that had it right in questioning the false mainstream narratives. After ridiculing and dismissing the new evidence, and villifying anyone who dared question the old false beliefs, how could the egotistical old guard have the humility to apologize. That would require them to own their stupidity and ignorance. That will never happen. The ones who had too much ego invested in the mainstream narratives to see the truth, no matter how obvious it became, will never learn from their mistakes because doing so would require them to confess their mistakes in the first place.
And they will not do that. Instead they will quietly tip toe away from the subject. If the subject is ever raised by someone looking for an apology, now that overwhelming contrary evidence has come to light, showing just how wrong they were, they will flat out refuse to discuss it. Or at best they may say something like: all I will say is that " mistakes were made". And then insist that is the end of the discussion.
So as always, it is clear that it is so much easier to fool the foolish than to get them to admit that they have been fooled. Because doing so would relieve them of the illusion that they're so smart. And the sad truth is that until they own their stupidity and do some serious self reflection and soul searching about how they could have been fooled so easily, they will be just as eay to fool the next time.
They will have learned nothing. Wasting such a valuable opportunity for self improvement, they are destined to repeat their foolishness.
And that is the sad state of the human condition. You think you're so smart but you're really that stupid. And far too egotistical to admit it.
Indeed, you were easy to fool the first time, and nothing has changed. You still think you're so smart. And hold that position in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's pathetic. You and all your future generations have a rude awakening coming. Your little fantasy world is going to crumble before your eyes. Like night follows day, the end of your world is coming. Then what will you do? Will you chose to die with your fantasy in tact, rather than live in truth?
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