Why? We have limited resources. We have to be smart about what to research. If the hypothesis is widely discredited, we should not be sciencing it, because tha

Why? We have limited resources. We have to be smart about what to research. If the hypothesis is widely discredited, we should not be sciencing it, because that means something else is not being scienced. Should we also be glad if an astronomy department starts seriously researching the geocentric model instead of exoplanets?