I've never really gotten this criticism. Science has worked on "here be dragons" ever since it became a "thing". Neutrinos took like 40 years to discover after

I've never really gotten this criticism. Science has worked on "here be dragons" ever since it became a "thing". Neutrinos took like 40 years to discover after experiments earlier showed that either all of modern particle physics was wrong, or there was something that we couldn't see.