books.google.co.uk - In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even going so far as to label the theory "unscientific." Some fifty years later, however, continental drift was heralded as a major scientific breakthrough...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Rejection_of_Continental_Drift_Theor.html?id=EEQdk9GRfkoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Rejection of Continental Drift : Theory and Method in American Earth Science
