In article ,
Martin Brown writes:
That's a storm in a teacup compared to the feud over Steady State vs Big
Bang that raged in the sixties between Fred Hoyle and Martin Ryle.

Or any number of other controversies: the nature of "island
universes," the existence or not of dust reddening, the value of the
Hubble constant, whether QSO redshifts are entirely cosmological. And
those are just the ones in astronomy that come to mind this minute.

For the record, the original article is at
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...es-challenges/

The letter from 33 physicists is at
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...c-controversy/

A response to that letter is at the bottom of the previous link.

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