Look at what's been going on with the "faster than light neutrinos". That would really overturn settled science. But to do so is going to require more than 16

Look at what's been going on with the "faster than light neutrinos". That would really overturn settled science. But to do so is going to require more than 16 people writing an op/ed saying that the results were correct and the effect was real. It's going to require more than articles in newsmagazines. The scientists behind the original results have examined their work for mistakes, and rerun the experiment controlling for possible confounding issues. The apparent effect remained. Now other labs are going to try to produce a similar result. If you want to overturn "settled science", you need data to clearly back up your claim. It's not enough to have a contrary interpretation of existing data. You need more data to support your interpretation as the correct one.