[Governor Dinwiddie]

Galileo faced the same inquistion in his time, with his questioning "settled science" on the relationship of the Earth to the Sun.

The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture" — Wikipedia

 

[Sgt_Schultze]

In 1983, Drs. Marshall and Warren challenged the settled science of medicine regarding peptic ulcers. Scientists had agreed the cause of these ulcers leading to stomach cancer was stress driven. Marshall and Warren disagreed and said a bacteria was responsible, and the ulcers could be easily cured with proper medicine. The science deniers, Marshall and Warren, were very literally ostracized from real scientistville.

Then Dr Marshall decided to experiment on himself by drinking the suspect bacteria, whereupon he became infected. After being diagnosed with a familiar gastritis, a precursor to an ulcer, he began a regimen of antibiotics and the affliction subsided. Unconvinced, the settled scientists resisted..

Until in 2005, when Marshall and Warren accepted the Nobel Prize in medicine.