The Major Blunders That Held Back Progress in Modern Astronomy� — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium

The Major Blunders That Held Back Progress in Modern Astronomy� — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium: “A very common flaw of astronomers is to believe that they know the truth even when data is scarce,” says Loeb...

In 1952, the Russian-American astronomer Otto Struve suggested that close-in planets may exist and would be easy to spot but his paper was ignored because of exactly the same prejudices.