Plate Tectonics was the worst victim of consensus science, in my view. Poor Alfred Wegener tried to tell us that the continents were drifting but the establishment "scientists" said they weren't. They maintained that stance for many decades and Wegener died before his idea was universally accepted.

Mendel was economic with the truth about the results of his inheritance experiments with peas. He massaged the results to show what he thought was happening.

Eddington did the same when he checked Einstein with his gravitational lensing experiment. In fact, Eddington's results were not good enough to decide between Einstein and Newton even though he claimed they did. Others did reinforce the conclusion later.

Scientists who followed Millikan whith his electron charge experiment all got an answer close to Millikan's - until they established that Millikan was not 100% correct. Those scientists should have posted their actual results - which would have been correct - rather than massage them to look like Millikan's.

Even though Newton and Einstein knew about gravity we still do not know everything. The gaaxies are holding together better than they should with all that w know about gravity. That is why dark matter and dark energy are being considered. In other words, the science is not working let's invent an invisible thing that must be making it work.

I am sure that many think science is a done deal. It is like having teacher mark your physics homework. He always knows the answers. That is not how it is in real life.