dash wrote:

TAANSTAAFS = There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Spin. Or gravity.

It’s funny. We don’t have a convincing Theory Of Everything, yet we are certain of so much that we don’t even question it anymore.

Perhaps being certain of one’s knowledge is the best ticket to irrelevance. Hmmm.
On the other side of the scale, credulous acceptance of obviously unbalanced theories is surely a sign of some kind of unfulfilled need for special Divine Revelation ….

But if you want a fine example of what you reference, check out this demolition of Atmospheric Greenhouse Theory from Germany, by a couple of actual competent physicists: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0707.1161v4 (pdf). As a bonus, it also proves that IR blocking has nothing to do with how a glass greenhouse works, either.