Making scientific evidence subject to "public opinion" doesn't sound like a particularly good idea.
Then get rid of the whole "settled science" and "consensus" ideas when it comes to evolution.
Here’s a website that sums up the fraud of evoltionists to date - quite well done imho esp. for a Wordpress article.
http://evolutionisntscience.wordpress.com/evolution-frauds/
Apparently Haeckel [is this where we got the term hack?] was convicted of fraud by his university peers. but as for most of the others apparently it was left for God to judge ultimately.
1st paragraph is really quite good too.
“In 1859, in his book Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin said: Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, (why) do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?. This is from chapter six entitled Difficulties on the Theory. Scientists who believe evolution have been searching for transitional forms ever since but they have been not found. Therefore, fraudulent fossils have been made and presented as transitional forms.”