Originally Posted by
Cusco
Quite the opposite. Science is the work of a collaboration of anyone and everyone who is curious enough to test his or her thoughts. Many scientist spend their entire careers on subjects that end up leading nowhere, but they're still regarded contributing, because they helped bring understanding about paths that do not work. People who try unusual perspectives are very much welcome, if the problems they imagine can't be easily disproven by the network of scientific facts that hundreds of thousands of curious men and women have helped build over the past 4000 years (I'm regarding the babylonians the first men of science).
What we learn in school is the progress of this collaboration of results of curiosity, which anyone and everyone is welcome to join. But you have to understand that some people, who has spent their entire careers on something that someone else then claims is entirety wrong, approach such claims with scepticism. That's only natural.