В 1772 году Парижская академия наук вынесла “антиметеоритный приговор” – заключение, что камни с неба падать не могут. Тогда многие музеи стали избавляться от метеоритов, не желая быть высмеянными. Решение парижской академии было отменено в 1803г.
Похожая история была с национальной академией наук США и её отношением к парапсихологии. В 1988 она вынесла заключение, что пси-явлений не существует; но менее чем через год это решение было отменено. Я прочитал об этой истории в книге “Два лика неведомого”, нагуглил здесь:

Most of the criticisms have been leveled by psychologists. For example, a 1988 report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences concluded that "The committee finds no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years for the existence of parapsychological phenomena" (Druckman and Swets, 1988, page 22). The chapter on parapsychology was written by a subcommittee chaired by a psychologist who had published a similar conclusion prior to his appointment to the committee (Hyman, 1985a, page 7). There were no parapsychologists involved with the writing of the report. Resulting accusations of bias (Palmer, Honorton and Utts, 1989) led U.S. Senator Claiborne Pel1 to request that the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) conduct an investigation with a more balanced group. A one-day workshop was held on September 30, 1988, bringing together parapsychologists, critics and experts in some related fields (including the author of this paper). The report concluded that parapsychology needs "a fairer hearing across a broader spectrum of the scientific community, so that emotionality does not impede objective assessment of experimental results" (Office of Technology Assessment, 1989).