[techdragon]

If it's rational to ignore everything unproven then science is irrational. Science is about proving things. Proving how they work, why they work, etc.

We have a thing, it's owner claims it works by either Method_A or Method_B, science is about taking the thing, testing the crap out of it, and being able to say at the end of all if it, "actually it turns out it works by Method_C"

It seems you have some wires crossed somewhere. Science and Rational behaviour are unrelated, they are quite well correlated but as separate concepts they are not causally linked. Historically connected obviously, but not causally linked.

[misnome]

No, science is about disproving things. You come up with experiments to test if method a or b are wrong. The more experiments that fail to disprove a theory, the stronger the evidence for that theory is - and any new theory has to Either match the old results under the same tests, or give a good reason why it doesnt match.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which is why every good scientist expects this effect to go away (regardless of hope as to whether it is a real effect or not).