Mechanics of whether or not new rules are adopted

Science doesn’t reject theories because they’re wrong — it rejects what it can’t test.

• The tools aren’t available yet (e.g., germ theory before microscopes)

so when science slowly updates nobody gets insulted but when it happens to fast, the old experts might be threatened

Gradual change is science’s comfort zone — radical leaps feel threatening.

As physicist Max Planck put it:

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents but because its opponents eventually die.”