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Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
When a scientific view is updated due to finding new data, people resist the change for entirely un-scientific reasons, usually that it's not as interesting as previously thought.
For example, Calvin And Hobbes has Calvin present his report on T Rex in a way that proves it's a predator and not a carrion feeder, for the sole reason that it's cooler that way. Similarly, Dumbing Of Age's Walky earns Dinah's ire when he says he prefers featherless dinosaurs à la Jurassic Park to the real thing. And of course the whole "Pluto is too a planet" thing.
Edited by Chabal2