Science has become more something about a consensus that anything else. “Do not disturb the status quo”, seems to be the word. We should have learned by now that most advances in science were done by ignoring the main current and going in unexplored directions. All people should be encouraged somehow to explore new directions. At the very least we should have some social structure to prevent denying that exploration, like these archeologists ‘ignoring’ the work of others.
Exploring is something to do when you have time on your hand as if we ever implement the Universal Basic Income after we have reached the coming social singularity point. That point where robots take over the world by doing everything we don’t want to do.
>>> “…although expertly excavated and analysed, are commonly disputed or simply ignored by most archaeologists…”
www.sott.net/article/438529-Peopling-of-the-Americas-may-have-begun-more-than-33000-years-ago