Academic scientists are experts in only allowing one side of an argument.
The Michelson-Morley experiment was barely an experiment, and didn't prove anything, but it has steered the ENTIRE course of what science has been taught for a hundred years.
Today, we have gone the wrong way in science for 100 years.
The modern materialistic science book is good as a door stop, but not much else.
Soooo, we are just seeing the reality of academia.
It has never been a place were you could argue new theories.
Not all of them, but yes unfortunately many are that way. Foundations are seldom re-evaluated indeed.