Sure there are incomplete proofs and dead ends. But I have yet to see an example of an "established mistake" which disproved an entire line of research that dep

Sure there are incomplete proofs and dead ends. But I have yet to see an example of an "established mistake" which disproved an entire line of research that depended on the mistake. Sure, mistakes have been published. But it never led to an entire branch of "knowledge" based on a false belief -- something that happens regularly in other fields.