examples of amateurs debunking established science?

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here's one
https://narratively.com/nick-brown-smelled-bull/
>By training a computers man, the then-fifty-year-old Brit was looking to beef up his people skills, and had enrolled in a part-time course in applied positive psychology at the University of East London. “Evidence-based stuff” is how the field of “positive human functioning” had been explained to him—scientific and rigorous.
>The theory was well credentialed. Now cited in academic journals over 350 times, it was first put forth in a 2005 paper by Barbara Fredrickson, a luminary of the positive psychology movement, and Marcial Losada, a Chilean management consultant, and published in the American Psychologist, the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the largest organization of psychologists in the U.S.
>But Brown smelled bullshit
>Brown related a list of inconsistencies he had found in the mathematical guts of the theory.
>meets sokal and friedman (a psychologist)
>July 2, 2012, Alan Sokal submitted the finished paper for peer review, then titled “The Complex Dynamics of an Intellectual Imposture,” to the American Psychologist.
>women authors of bogus paper go full copium
>psychology continues to be a bullshit field