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You are a famous scientist, renowned for the well-accepted idea you developed over the last 15 years. A new idea suddenly appears from some upstart junior scientist. For the new idea to overthrow your well-accepted idea and gain widespread scientific acceptance, what must happen?,

A., The new idea must do a better job than your old idea at predicting the outcome of one experiment that you conducted.
B., The new upstart scientist must be sexier than you are.
C., The new idea must do a better job than your old idea at predicting the outcome of one experiment that the new upstart junior scientist conducted.
D., The new idea must be more consistent with the teachings of the world’s religions than is your old idea.
E., The new idea must explain the things that your old idea explained, and do a better job than your old idea in predicting the outcomes of many new experiments designed by various people to test the ideas.

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E.The new idea must explain the things that your old idea explained, and do a better job than your old idea in predicting the outcomes of many new experiments designed by various people to test the ideas.

Step-by-step explanation:

Responding in accordance to how the question was constructed, As a famous and renowned scientist who has a widely and well accepted idea is a proof my idea had been tested and shown it relevance.

For the new idea to be well accepted it should definitely do a better job than my idea and also predict the outcome of many new experiments designed by various people.

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