Hi Lawrence.
I entirely agree that more technology makes some less smart.
But beware, lack of information is even more effective!
Take Voyager for instance, you say 'the Pioneer anomaly did not occur', but there are approaching 100 detailed papers on the many anomalies, from both Voyagers 1 and 2. An early overview is here;
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=940
Other V2 data is just as new. i.e. the solar polarity reversal 'wave', changing from 13 days to over 100 at the heliosheaths dense particle bow shock. The only science that could fully explain this so far is common FM wave/particle interaction, which needs a 'medium' and absolute velocity. I can now tell you that ESA have also found this basis is essential. And, as with the quadropolar inconsistecy of WMAP, much of the work going on to clean up the Planck CMB picture has had to relate to 'cosmic dipole' signals, which is the activity caused by our motion with respect to the background CM field.
Check the (very) latest release referring to this at; http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=46706
This only scratches the information surface Lawrence. And it is 'the real stuff'. Sure, ignorance is bliss, if bliss is what we want, but the more good evidence we use the safer the conclusions. Using 'beleifs' is another way, but personally I prefer science. Sure, we're not going bonkers, but we also need to remember we don't 'know it all'. ('1,000th of 1%' according to Einstein).
You should be aware your last posts have sounded a little like the guy in the late 1800's who declared that science was all sorted and people who were looking at anomalies were wasting their time as there was no more left to discover!
Karl Popper said mankind needs to be able to challenge ruling paradigms to survive. I we all consider him wrong.. he may just be proved right!
Last quotes, AE again; "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has it's own reason for existence". and..on Relativity in 1944; "I hope that someone will discover a more realistic way, or rather a more tangible basis than it has been my lot to find." (in a little known letter to Max Born in 1944).
So.. do you reeally still think it's all sorted?!
Peter