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No one, including the original scientists IIUC, needed to be convinced the FTL-neutrino result was wrong. It was just a matter of what went wrong.

Tell that to the authors of the dozens of papers that showed up on the arxiv "explaining" the result.

Ok, fine, no one smart.

Indeed, IIRC some of the members of the collaboration even opted to have their name omitted from the author list.