What are the Strongest Scientific Consensuses That Turned Out to Be Possibly, or Definitely, Wrong?

Thank you.

Yes, that was what I was thinking of – with there having been a period of real, if mistaken, settled science – in starting the thread.

Before doing any research, I recalled that there was a consensus regarding peptic ulcers being caused by stress, replaced in the 1980’s with the cause being a bacterial infection.

But these two links show my memory of there being an old-time consensus on the cause of peptic ulcers was mistaken:

Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1967: Causes of Peptic Ulcers

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2011: The ulcer sleuths: The search for the cause of peptic ulcers