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Claims that returned after apparent failure.

Science

Continents had once been joined and subsequently moved apart, making measurable horizontal motion a testable consequence.

Alfred Wegener
Germany

Made 1912Resolved 1968

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Food and agriculture

Jean Macnamara advocated testing myxomatosis as a means of controlling Australia's rabbits in 1934 and continued pressing after failures.

Jean Macnamara
Australia

Made 1934Resolved 1951

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Food and agriculture

Within the essay’s fifty-year horizon, edible animal parts could be grown separately in a suitable medium.

Winston Churchill
United Kingdom

Made 1931Resolved 2013

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