that's quite a presumption for (presumably) a scientist, no?
every argument is a priori - the earth is a spinning ball therefore..
michelson-morley, sagnac's turntables, airy's failure - real empirical experiments which (accidentally) proved the earth is not in motion.

you just don't want to believe you have been conned massively, and have been manipulated to believe the opposite of what your own senses tell you is reality.