However, the cult of Einstein fully embraced special relativity as mainstream science. A veritable law of nature. Positive results from Michelson were dismissed as observational error.
So why have you never heard of the Michelson - Morley experiment? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that these EinsteinIan physicists invented the nuclear bomb and reactor?
Imagine the repercussions of admitting that a cornerstone of their cosmological model was false? That'd be trillions in reaserch money down the toilet. A century of "discoveries" crap.
Imagine for example, that they found conclusively that the speed of light varies. The "c" in every equation for every single experiment would need to be recalculated retroactively.
Nuclear physics may be the greatest example of government quotas transmographying taxpayers hard work into ethereal feces(not to mention the piles of dead bodies).