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Why? They could submit their tentative results to science, wait for verification, and only then become confident. In fact I think that's the right way.
(I thought User:cousin_it was making a descriptive statement about what academia thinks intellectuals should know, 'cuz as a normative statement it's obviously wrong.)
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: