Fossils on Mars!
You're right, that's totally stupid, almost as dumb as a spherical Earth, rotating and revolting around the sun in elliptical orbits. Almost as dumb as new world on the other side of the ocean. Up there with idiotic concept of a rocket working in a vacuum, or man walking on the moon. Almost, but not quite as stupid the sun being one of billions of stars, the nebulae being other galasies of stars, and really as dumb as planets around other stars, and life on other planets.
Just plain loony, whoever would believe such things. Neutrinos, I never heard of such a thing.