#2857: Rebuttals

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball, hand raised with a finger held up, stands behind a lectern on a high podium speaking into a microphone on the lectern. Behind him is a banner, with four lines of illegible writing above a (blank) picture at the bottom.]

Cueball: It's become conventional wisdom that the backlash against the prevailing consensus led researchers to ignore inconvenient new evidence. However...

[Caption below the panel:]

In a field that's been around for a while, it can be hard to figure out how many levels of rebuttal deep you are.

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:The mainstream dogma sparked a wave of dogmatic revisionism, and this revisionist mainstream dogmatism has now given way to a more rematic mainvisionist dogstream.


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