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Malcom
While agreeing with your sentiments I cant agree with the proposers of crazy theories that allow no rational arguement to prevail. Thats not science.
As you say in your second sentence the fault lay not in the proposal of a new theory but with the blind dogmatism of the Church at the time that they were right and that no rational arguement could dissuade them from their point of view. The church doesnt/didnt use science but faith.
Your example of the manner in which a diode works is science. It was once thought to work one way which sattisfied the majority but not all. When another hypothesis was proposed and TESTED a different interpretation became the consensus that sattisfied you. But remember that may not be the complete answer.
People dont have to die before their thoughts are recognised. Both Gallileo and Copernicus etc had their detractors but also their immediate converts. What wins out is the testing of rational thought and ideas to approach an understanding of the problem. Not a dogmatic and empiracle diatribe.
Stupid ideas have very short legs in science. The reason many crazies continue with their beliefs is that they never apply a scientific rational to their pronouncements nor rigorously test them in an open and verifyable manner.
Just my 2 cents
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