Fact is Fluid

What is considered to be a fact, really should be that which can be proven and known to be true but our society blurs this definition so much and so often that really the definition of fact should be that which the majority believes to be true.

If there were 100 million people who all believed something to be true and 1 person who believed it to be false  - then, regardless of whether that one person's conclusions are empirically correct, the fact of the matter will be defined as what the majority of people believed to be true.

You may argue with this but there are countless examples to demonstrate this, none more so than the fundamental foundations of almost every major legal system in the world.  Any trial involving a Jury uses this definition in passing judgement, our elections and laws are dictated by this definition and for many years our religious beliefs have also been influenced by this definition.

Science is not without fault either, there is no such concept as faith in the world of science and ultimately that can lead the pioneering endeavours of individuals to be somewhat void.  No-one will set out to define new areas of Science and pose new theories that have no foundation in current scientific beliefs.  Evolution and development in the World of Science is limited only to building upon existing foundations.  Imagine a House, you can only extend the original house so many times and in so many ways.  Eventually you will need new sites and new ground to plant new foundations upon before you can connect them to the existing.