The problem now is that so many people, in so many fields, relayed that "everything's safe, if you disagree or dare casting doubts you're an a ti-science sociopath", that it's going to be super super hard for them to admit they were wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/aug/02/highereduc...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/articl...