The Scablands of Washington state are a remarkably eroded. But how? That's what this NOVA episode is about. How were the Scablands formed, and how did the science community do its work? Sometimes it worked better than at other times. Dearly held beliefs compete with empirical evidence. Just as with Wegener's idea about continental drift and Alvarez's idea about an asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, beliefs closed geologists' minds to the empirical evidence that supported a very different idea. Is this good, or is it bad? Assignment:
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