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If your reasoning implies ~X, then X implies that your reasoning is wrong. And if X implies that your reasoning is wrong, then evidence for X is evidence against your reasoning.
In other words, you have no idea what you are talking about. The fact that something has "distasteful implications" (that is, that it implies ~X, and there is evidence for X) does mean it is less likely to be true.