Contrary to popular belief, peer review and publication does not cement something as fact. If your peers are also nutters then you can get their blessing for yo

Contrary to popular belief, peer review and publication does not cement something as fact. If your peers are also nutters then you can get their blessing for your work. And at any given time there are fringe communities working on things that everyone else laughs at. It's a feature, not a bug, because consensus is useless in advancing our understanding of stuff. Things go wrong when laypeople pretend "science is settled" and adopt it as a religion.