After studying the most brilliant scientists in history, philosopher Thomas Kuhn made a deeply unsettling discovery: They weren't just occasionally wrong. They were systematically, confidently wrong. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents were slowly drifting — that Africa and South America had once been joined. The response from the scientific establishment wasn't skepticism. It was outright mockery. Leading geologists called it nonsense. Journals refused to engage with it. He was