It is true that most impossible results are experimental error of one sort or another. But it is a systemic failure that biologists broadly rejected a result o

It is true that most impossible results are experimental error of one sort or another. But it is a systemic failure that biologists broadly rejected a result out of hand that had been successfully replicated many times, at multiple labs, over decades. And the attitude that you describe is part of why it happened. Data that does not fit in existing paradigms should be scrutinized with extra care, not rejected out of hand.