If you think the works of Douglas Adams are not educational, it is because you do not think upside down or inside out.
He shows how philosophy and reason can be bent and abused to portray things that are not true.
He does not teach how to use it correctly. He teaches how it can be incorrect, just as Schrodinger explains with the cat in a box paradox (which people often misinterpret).

Ignore Douglas Adams books for the moment and find his University lectures on philosophy, and obviously life the universe and everything.
When you hear him speak on the subject you see why he wrote fiction the way he did.

If Mr Adams was your early teacher there is a good chance you can see through false news and propaganda.

One of the essential features that a new theory must have is "consistency". It must take into account the successes of previous models. For instance, Special Relativity coincides with Newtonian predictions at small fractions of c. The curvatures of General Relativity are consistent with Special Relativity in flat space, so Special Relativity becomes a special case of General Relativity. General Relativity might become a special case of some more subtle model, but to say that it's just wrong is crude and misleading.

It's important to take on account that almost everything (if not everything) we know in science is a theory, and as such is subject to being wrong. A model is presented and if that model can explain and accurately predict certain phenomena and be able to replicate it through experimentation then it's valid.

Therefore a model can be wrong and it shouldn't be followed blindly. Of course that a model can be proven to be certain over and over becoming a reliable basis on which support further experiments and theories, but my point is that it shouldn't surprise us when a model is defied by any new results of experimentation that contradict said model, as it is in the nature of the theory and model the chance (and probability) of it being wrong.

Just a thought that I think we should keep in mind when discussing scientific matters.

Well now there is an ironic twist to all this,  Earth actually has an object that has a strange orbital path, so cannot be considered a moon.  It actually means that Earth has not completely cleared its orbital neighbourhood.... So we all live on a dwarf planet and didn't know it...