Wilful

 Wilful Blindness  
( .. Folding results from gravity collapse, not colliding continents.  )

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"To know or to delibately *not* know, :: Zat iz ze Qvestion, Vladimir." "Zigackly, Boris, .. 'hic!"

Fig.1.  'MEDICINE' :=: The sugar pill of Plate Tectonics, or the bitter truth of an Earth getting bigger.

The Challenge for Earth science is to make a choice - either to remain with the stale hash of contradictions that Plate Tectonics has served the Earth sciences with for the last half century (and unless something is done about it, looks like it might serve it for another half century), or to roll boldly forward where some have gone before and add to their achievement by saying that not only is the Earth round, rotating and orbiting the sun, but that it is also getting bigger. What could be simpler, .. round, rotating, orbiting the Sun - and getting bigger .. .. (?)

..And flatter. The  Earth keeps getting flatter than it used to be. When are those two geezers on the park bench going to waken up? (We might well ask. ..)

The mustard is cut. The Big Ship is turning.