Guest(?): "Scientists actually fall for "silly notions" all the time, in the sense that they pursue them in order to find out what's there. Most of the "notions" that scientists pursue don't yield anything substantial, but a few do, and that's what it's all about."

It has been true, and will probably continue to be true...what's really pathetic is when bad science is passed to a political group or party to create a mindset, that then takes bad science to be a fact!

Happens all the time!

GfS