Recently I was surprised to read (in Michio Kaku's book Einstein's Cosmos) that initially Einstein's General Relativity theory was met by a lot of resistance.
Actually, a major resistance came from the New York Times. Here is the relevant excerpt from the book:
"... as momentous as Einstein's discovery inevitably invited armies of skeptics to mount a counterattack. The skeptics were led by the New York Times. After recovering from the initial shock of being scooped by the British press, its editors kidded the British people for ..."
Since when is a paper a source of scientific discovery?
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