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Very rarely it happens, like Wegener's contemporary backlash, but it's rare to find self-delusion nowadays. Papers get retracted all the time because of errors that happened in the experimentation, and the peer review doesn't catch the mistakes. Have any modern examples of knots of self-delusion?Sometimes science just gets itself hopelessly tied up in knots of self-delusion. Because, after all, people are only human. Even scientists.. and skeptics..