Oh no, more of the snobbery of it all. They did everything the could to denounce this young, from the “west” geologist. Simply because he wasn’t from the established East Coast.
National Geographic observes: "As philosopher
Thomas Kuhn observed, new scientific truths often win the day not so much because opponents change their minds, but because they die off. By the time the
Geological Society of America finally recognized Bretz’s work with the
Penrose Medal, the field’s highest honour, it was 1979 and Bretz was 96 years old. He joked to his son, "All my enemies are dead, so I have no one to gloat over."