[andrewflnr]

No one, including the original scientists IIUC, needed to be convinced the FTL-neutrino result was wrong. It was just a matter of what went wrong.

[i_no_can_eat]

Tell that to the authors of the dozens of papers that showed up on the arxiv "explaining" the result.

[andrewflnr]

Ok, fine, no one smart.

[cshimmin]

Indeed, IIRC some of the members of the collaboration even opted to have their name omitted from the author list.