Stuart_Armstrong comments on JFK was not assassinated: prior probability zero events - Less Wrong
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That's slightly different - society reaching the right conclusion, despite some members of it being irredeemably wrong.
A closer analogy would be a believer in psychics or the supernatural who has lots of excuses ready to explain away experiments - their expectations have changed even if they haven't revived their beliefs.