exhelodrvr:

What I meant by my clumsy phrasing was:

Once the testing is started, negative evidence will generally be ignored or disparaged without being refuted. To accept the evidence that the theory is wrong requires that the evidence be much stronger than the evidence supporting it. The theory is true, until proven false with a high bar.

Of course, in each case the theory might be true. But I believe in each case, substantial evidence was discovered which wasn’t given the respect it deserved. Institutional inertia, necessary to test the theory in question, makes the testing process unequal – and prone to myth-making.

James