>> The entire concept of "sufficient evidence" was very much a work-in-progress at that time.

> Still is.

These days, instruments generate so much data, one has to work out a strategy of how to wade through it all without overlooking something amazing.
Just one neutrino project I lend a hand on creates and stores over a terabyte of data a day - no one can possibly keep up with it all.

A typical radio telescope can produce a data flow of about 100 GB per hour.  I've personally made a single "pretty picture" for my wall from radio telescope data that totaled about 15 TB.

And that's just two tiny niches with which I am familiar - they can't be the worst case scenarios.  
The sheer volume of evidence in support of any MPU ("Minimum Publishable Unit", what we used to call a "factoid", until CNN stole the term) is overwhelming these days.

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