Continental drift had been proposed way before this. The mechanism was unknown.

Makes me wonder what other "obvious things" we don't know yet

This is a story I am going to repeat forever.

When I was taking one of my science classes for my major our professor mentioned that she is pretty convinced that she was the last holdout geologist for this theory. So not only had this been discovered in recent history it was controversial in recent history.

Me when dabbing on and running circles around the scientists about COVID

I'm really bothered by this line of thinking.

Just because something "looks" like it is a certain way doesn't mean it is. For anything to be considered fact there needs to be evidence. The hypothesis that the Earth may have plate tectonics existed decades before it became fact.

This leads people to make connections between completely unrelated things, despite scientists, or professionals working in fields of science (i.e. doctors), saying, and often proving, there is none.

Alfred Wagner proposed the idea of plate tectonics decades before citing the fit of the continents, the same species found of plants and animals found continents separated by ocean, and glacial striations as evidence. The problem was that know one knew HOW the plates separated.

It also took a climatologist or something and nobody believed him. Probably because a lot of science stubbornly gravitated around religious stupidity of some kind.