Skepticism as inertia
Modern science is based on skepticism. On the one hand, science must always be open to new ideas (strange as they may seem) as long as they are supported by scientific evidence, but must do so in a way that they are always properly scrutinized to ensure that their implications are true. and results. Whenever a new hypothesis is formulated or a new claim is made, the entire scientific community mobilizes itself to prove its theoretical and practical viability. As on any other plane, the more unusual new ideas and inventions are, the more resistance they tend to face during their scrutiny through the scientific method. A consequence of this is that several scientists throughout history, when presenting their ideas, were initially greeted with allegations of fraud by colleagues who did not wish or were unable to accept something that would require a change in their established views. For example, Michael Faraday was called a charlatan by his contemporaries when he said he could generate an electric current simply by moving a magnet through a coil of wire.
In January 1905, more than a year after Wilbur and Orville Wright made their first flight at Kitty Hawk (December 17, 1903), Scientific American magazine published an article ridiculing the Wright flight. With astonishing authority, the magazine cited as its main reason for questioning the Wrights that the American press had failed to cover the flight. Others joining the skeptical movement were the New York Herald, the United States Army, and numerous American scientists. Only when President Theodore Roosevelt ordered public attempts at Fort Mayers in 1908 after Alberto Santos Dumont's 14-bis flight on an improved aircraft did the Wright brothers substantiate their claims and compelled even the most zealous skeptics to accept the reality of flying machines heavier than air. In fact, the Wright brothers were successful in public demonstrations of their machine flight five years before the historic flight [lacks sources]. In this context, although the Wright brothers' flight, while not shutting down the skeptics, was perhaps the first where a heavier-than-air ship took off after Otto Lilienthal's pioneering flights. However, the first flight of a machine capable of flying entirely on its own, without the aid of catapults, is however correctly credited to Santos Dumont, who is duly registered and documented .Most modern revolutionary inventions, such as the tunneling current microscope, which was invented in 1981, still find intense skepticism and even ridicule when first announced. As a physicist, Max Planck noted in his 1936 book The Philosophy of Physics: "a major scientific breakthrough rarely makes its way by gradually winning and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that 'Saul' becomes'. What really happens is that your opponents die gradually and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning. "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceticismo
