>>11270734Sometimes kind of. Generally not. Even the giants of a given era or area of some field have their insights based on either very basic observations anyone can make just by interacting with the universe, or the totality of their exposure to the sciences.
It's pretty vague. Giants may have been an actual thing in Newton's time to a much clearer extent, but not so much anymore.
>>11271101There's photographic evidence, bones, and credible accounts as recent as the 1930's. In addition to the vast global "mythology". The suggestion that there were never giants is somewhat absurd.