On: New research: Dark Energy might not exist after al...

[NikolaeVarius]

Not the best example, Galileo argued plenty from positions he saw as intuitive, even though he was completely wrong.

Also, according to the physics of the day, its completely understandable as to why they thought that way, intuition comes from observing nature, even if those observations may be incorrect simply from not being able to gather the data properly.

[edw → NikolaeVarius]

I encourage folks to read Einstein and Infield's _The Evolution of Physics_ and decide for themselves whether the comment above makes sense.

[XorNot → edw]

Or Asimov's The Relativity of Wrong: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html