David Douglass — American Physicist

David H. Douglass is an American physicist at the University of Rochester... (wikipedia)

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.