Absolutely! It is a well-known fact that at the core of all learning is idle speculation and gossip!
Absolutely! How do you think it all started ? In the Beginning No-one Knew Nuffin. Probably a million years ago some geezer sat down in the pub and asked why the Sun was moving around the Earth, after all NOBODY knew at that time, so Copperknickers and his mates went about finding out.
I bet Icarus wished he'd listened to idle gossip about how the Sun was hot.
Sorting the facts from the gossip is the trick.
How many times do you have to ring your Council, Bank, Insurance Co. Plumber, the CAA, etc. getting a different answer each time, before you eventually have enough information to work it out for yourself ?.
Even Einstein is being questioned now !