Perhaps I wasn't very clear. Would the general public accept the truth of a data model that proved that a previously controversial/unacceptable idea was factual

Perhaps I wasn't very clear. Would the general public accept the truth of a data model that proved that a previously controversial/unacceptable idea was factually correct to the point it could not be denied by a reasonable person? Several attempts at training with real world models have produced results that have been attacked for being "algorithmically biased". This isn't because there was anything experimentally wrong with the dataset or choice of model on their own, but because of the result's contradiction of a certain worldview. While, I agree with you that people come closer to the truth in the long-term, in the short- and medium-term, I expect certain people to pad their own data and quash the different findings out of ideological motivation for some time.