Of course, then there is Steven Hawking saying that there are no black holes.

From http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/hawking-meant-black-holes/:

"In a nutshell, Hawking seems to be saying this: instead of an event horizon, there is something else he calls an 'apparent horizon.' In this apparent horizon, matter and energy is temporarily suspended, but then released. If this is true, it changes black holes as we know them."

In other words, science is always finding patches for some of the junk that it makes popular, when it really doesn't know what it is talking about. Perhaps it is modern scientific investigation that isn't scientifically viable.