You're absolutely correct, scientists don't suffer from any misconception that publishing equals truth. The general public, on the other hand, has little understanding of this.
I feel all these debates are kind of pointless, because no-one I know treats a published article as gospel. We make up our own minds about the paper.
Wait, maybe they do understand but they also understand that the general public doesn't understand.
In my experience it's more like: Most scientists ignored it. Others were interested but had too much teaching to pay attention to it. A few people got pissed off and tried to prove it wrong. A few other people got excited and tried to build on it.