  Einstein became world-famous on 7 November 1919, following press publication
of a meeting held in London on 6 November 1919 where the results were announced
of two British expeditions led by Eddington, Dyson and Davidson to measure how
much background starlight is bent as it passes the Sun. Three data sets were
obtained: two showed the measured deflection matched the theoretical prediction
of Einstein's 1915 Theory of General Relativity, and became the official
result; the third was discarded as defective. At the time, the experimental
result was accepted by the expert astronomical community. However, in 1980 a
study by philosophers of science Earman and Glymour claimed that the data
selection in the 1919 analysis was flawed and that the discarded data set was
fully valid and was not consistent with the Einstein prediction, and that,
therefore, the overall result did not verify General Relativity. This claim,
and the resulting accusation of Eddington's bias, was repeated with
exaggeration in later literature, and has become ubiquitous. The 1919 and 1980
analyses of the same data provide two discordant conclusions. We reanalyse the
1919 data, and identify the error that undermines the conclusions of Earman and
Glymour.
