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My favorite story about scientific consensus is the Wright Brothers. They didn't get credit for heavier than air flight from the Smithsonian until the 1920s. Also, NYT said the same week the Wright brothers flew that heavier than air flight would take millions of years. Should have shut down the bicycle mechanics for misinformation.

> They had offered it to the United States National Museum, as the Smithsonian Institution was then known, in 1910. Officials at the Smithsonian, particularly Charles Walcott, were "anxious to redeem the reputation" of former director, Samuel Langley, who had spent thousands of government dollars trying to invent an airplane which he called an "aerodrome."

https://libraries.wright.edu/special/wrightbrothers/flyer/hi...