>At a Royal Geographical Society meeting, the speaker was admired by an attendee for having “blown Wegener’s theory to bits”, after which the absent Wegener was

>At a Royal Geographical Society meeting, the speaker was admired by an attendee for having “blown Wegener’s theory to bits”, after which the absent Wegener was then thanked for “offering himself for the explosion.” >A University of Chicago geologist, Thomas Chamberlain, accused Wegener of ignoring “awkward and ugly facts” and of taking “considerable liberties with our globe”. Despite resolving numerous outstanding questions in his field, an American paleontologist called the work “Germanic pseudo-science” nonetheless. Even German geologists joined the fray with gusto by referring to Wegener’s “delirious ravings” and accusing him of having contracted “moving crust disease and wandering pole plague.” Harsh. https://medium.com/swlh/the-delirious-ravings-of-alfred-wegener-1db334f164dd https://medium.com/swlh/the-delirious-ravings-of-alfred-wege...