https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhbs.70043

When Prophecy Fails (1956), the now-canonical account of the event, claimed the opposite: that the group doubled down [or did huge reinterpretations]

Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false...the group...quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward [& the 1956 book is a series of] serious ethical violations by the researchers

Another key piece of atheist social science, blows up.

When people are in "cognitive dissonance" about their mistakes: they may rationalize for awhile, but when it gets undeniable, people do see & move on. People abandon fakes. People don't show loyalty unless something was intensely helpful & real to them, over time.

Atheist social scientists liked to cite this 1956 book, to discredit religions & especially Christianity. But the book, and the biases of atheist social science, are discredited.