If something doesn't line up, they will invent their own new facts to make it line up.
You make a claim like that with nothing to back it up!
Take gravitation for example.
Before Newton there was little understanding of how gravity behaved.
Galileo did some experiments that disproved the ancient notion that heavier things fell faster.
The Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton and others did numerous measurements involving pendulums, falling objects, objects down slopes and the rates of pendulum clocks at different locations and altitudes.
Unluckily for Hooke, he died before they had produced the "Theory of Universal Gravitation",
or it might have been called "Hooke and Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation".
Though Newton did write, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar.
Now the motions of the planets fitted
fairly well with Newton's and Kepler's work. Even the
precession of the perihelion for all known planets were predicted quite closely - except for that of Mercury. Newtonian gravitation "predicts a precession of
5557 seconds of arc per century.
There is a discrepancy of
43 seconds of arc per century - a whole 0.8%! Show me any FE measure to even that accuracy!
Yes, only about
3/
4 of a minute of arc over a century, compared to the measured figure of
5600 seconds of arc per century!
Did these astronomical scientists "invent their own new facts to make it line up"?
No, they simply
accepted that they did not know the reason and it wasn't till Einstein's GR in 1915 that the
reason for the discrepancy was discovered. The sun distorts spacetime a minute amount.
And please note,
Einstein did not develop GR to explain the anomalous precession of the perihelion of Mercury!
So gravitation (with GR corrections if necessary) fits observations in our local regions extremely well.
But, these "pesky" cosmologists found that the rotation galaxies did not quite match expectations.
They could easily have conspired to hide these "inconvenient" observations, but they publicised them!
And now, of course, the hunt is for the explanation and scientists are quite prepared to admit that previous theories, even GR, might be either wrong of only partially correct.
In general, scientists do not sweep their failings "under the carpet".
I say "in general" because there have been more than suspicions raised relating to "scientists" employed by "big tobacco" and "big pharma".
But there is no evidence that this happens in areas of astronomer and cosmology.
The ultimate cause of gravitation and the failings of the current ideas are certainly all out there to see!
The
New Scientist of 18 March 2017, has an article entitled "What's up with Gravity, Strangely Attractive".
This outlines of the problems of gravitation on a big scale, but there has never been a suggestion of any discrepancies nearby.
So, Silicon, back up your assertion that
"If something doesn't line up, they will invent their own new facts to make it line up."
or just admit that you made it up!