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"You mean what the scientists were telling us was true about the sun ... wasn't true?"
Well, I would tell you a true story. One of my former co-workers was so "proficient" in reading the basic analytic spectra that his ineptitude became proverbial. Once he was loudly wondering about the negative integration he was getting from a poorly phased NMR spectrum, and received an advice to turn the spectrum the right sway up. Similar stories abounded about much more proficient scientists of the past; the best one I've heard about concerned the prominent theoretician Jacob Frenkel - he managed to give a self-consistent explanation to the experimental curve turned on its side - and then provided another explanation of the experimental data, when they apologized and brought him a corrected one. He is our patron saint.