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I saw that before you posted it. So she says. I can tell you with complete certainty that when it was discovered that the planets orbited the sun rather than the earth, every scientist could be quoted as saying Galileo was wrong.

Actually many scientists agreed with Galileo. So much so that the model of our solar system was changed, It was the church at the time who conhdemned Galileo and declared he was wrong,,

Same with the idea of plate tectonics when it was discovered by Alfred Wegener in the early 20th Century. In fact until the 1960s with the discovery of the mid-Atlantic rift, Plate Tectonics was debunked by scientists.

And when evidence was found to support Wegener;s hypothesis things changed. There was reasoable evidence to support his ideas.

Pretty much where we are now. A bit from the Mythbusters episode on the Baghdad Battery.

Unlike Galileo or Wegener decades of research has not convinced anyone that the "Bahgdad Cell" was indeed a cell. In fact it's very design indicates that it most likely was not a cell.

Don't get me wrong. I think it would be cool if they could confirm that it was actually an electrochemical cell. The mystery of why, fpor what purpose, would be interesting. However, the present evidence doesn't seem to support the electrochemical cell idea.