The examples listed seem to be cases of broken clocks being right, which does happen, and it looks spectacular in history when they are, but it ignores how many

The examples listed seem to be cases of broken clocks being right, which does happen, and it looks spectacular in history when they are, but it ignores how many broken clocks were rightly ignored. For the most part, exact scientists are willing to listen if radical ideas are backed up by evidence. — Einstein's ideas were quite radical at the time, but they were backed up by convincing mathematical reasoning and were accepted, however absurd it might have sounded that nonmassive light is influenced by gravity, or that such things as time dilation occur, and they were not actually observed until decades later. That being said, — there are definitely entire fields of science where the “mainstream consensus” seems to be based quite a bit on convention and simply things “truths that became repeated” but were never well substantiated, and when empirically justified by some experiments, sometimes later found to not be reproducible, or perhaps not occuring in the wild, and only in lab conditions.