This is cyclical in human history. A consensus view ossifies, and then all new data must conform to that. It doesn't change until the price of remaining with conformity is looking like a fool in the face of new ideas that have abundant proof in observation.

Astronomy and astrophysics are now reaching that point. For decades, new observations had to conform to the official story (or else), so they sprinkled fairy dust into the heavens and populated it with unicorns to save the theory, but that doesn't work anymore. The Big Bang is dead. Nothing they see confirms it, from the way stars operate to ubiquitous filamentary structures, gigantic orderly magnetic fields, and energetic beams that retain a linear structure despite being light years long. That is just mentioning a few things on a very long list.

A problem that contributes to this is specialization in education. There is little cross-disciplinary training from other sciences, so astronomers come up with ridiculous things like magnetic reconnection, which is literally impossible in this universe. Just a week of being educated in the well-known laws of electrodynamics would have preempted this particular form of nonsense coming from otherwise brilliant men and women.