Editing Fringe science (section)

===Accepted as mainstream===
Some theories that were once rejected as fringe science but were eventually accepted as mainstream science include:

* [[Plate tectonics]]<ref>Bell, David, 2005, ''Science, Technology and Culture'', Open University Press, p. 134, {{ISBN|978-0-335-21326-9}}</ref><ref>[[Naomi Oreskes|Oreskes, Naomi]] (2003), ''Plate tectonics: an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth'' p. 72</ref>
* The existence of [[Troy]]<ref>Conklin, Wendy (2005) ''Mysteries in History: Ancient History'' p. 39</ref><ref>Hunt, Patrick (2007) ''Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History''</ref>
* [[Heliocentrism]]<ref>JDobrzycki J Editor (1973) ''The reception of Copernicus' heliocentric theory'' p. 311</ref>
* [[Norse colonization of the Americas]]<!--{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} No - the main article has 45 references -->
* The [[Big Bang]] theory<ref>Lemonick, Michael D. (2003) ''Echo of the Big Bang'' Princeton University Press p. 7</ref>
*''[[Helicobacter pylori]]'' bacteria as the causative agent of [[peptic ulcer disease]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sld.cu/galerias/pdf/sitios/revsalud/beyerstein_cience_vs_pseudoscience.pdf|title=Distinguishing science from pseudoscience|last=Beyerstein|first=Barry L.|date=July 1995|page=17|website=www.sld.cu|access-date=27 September 2017}}</ref>
*The [[germ theory of disease]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Uq9AAAAQBAJ&q=%22germ+theory%22+fringe+mainstream&pg=PA40|title=An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases|last=Velasquez-Manoff|first=Moises|year=2013|publisher=Simon and Schuster|page=40|access-date=27 September 2017|isbn=9781439199398}}</ref>
*[[Neanderthal#Interbreeding with Denisovans|Neanderthal-Homo sapiens hybridization]]