It's Official: We Were WRONG About the Big Bang

Lemaître censoring himself sounds eerily similar to the story of Cecilia Payne, which I heard yesterday on PBS space time. She discovered that stars are mainly composed of hydrogen and helium but said in her paper that this was probably wrong because it went completely against the consensus at the time.

Also reminds me of this story of an architectural school where one of the exams was to measure the height of a prominent chimney on campus. Of course, everyone knew how high it was so everyone always passed that exam. Until one day a student didn't pass it because he gave a lower number as his answer.
Turns out that he was actually right. Unknown to everybody the chimney had lost some of its height over the years due to collapse or something. But nobody bothered to actually measure it for the exam. And those who did just ignored their results to give the "correct" answer.

So, in the words of the great Peppy Hare: "Never give up, trust your instincts!"