It continues to boggle my mind that when further evidence arises to confound the current majority theory (in any field), additional undetectable entities are ad

It continues to boggle my mind that when further evidence arises to confound the current majority theory (in any field), additional undetectable entities are added to keep the majority theory going. Mayhaps, if some of these brilliant thinkers actually took a step back, they might get a completely different perspective. That is hoping too much, I suppose. What's that old adage? If a man's job depends on him believing an idea, he's unlikely to look at anything different.