[bad_user]

Scientists only have beliefs in falsifiable theories and are always working towards proving or disproving said theories. But yes, theories that are really hard to prove either way, like the string theory, quickly become what the article names intellectual black holes for same people.

On the other hand, believing in homeopathy is tricky as there have been evidence that it doesn't work that well.

I do take issue with this statement:

    Any theory, no matter how ludicrous, can be 
    squared with the evidence, given enough ingenuity

Well, yeah, but it can take hundreds of years for said evidence to emerge. We still have no clue about how to predict natural disasters, we barely know the reasons for why tornadoes happen and we haven't yet fully cracked the human brain -- we have a long, long way to go before fully understanding the phenomenons around us.

It's also not only about ingenuity - sometimes you have that, but don't have the proper tools yet. Proving Einstein's theory turned out to be quite a challenge and the theory itself is so groundbreaking that many thought Einstein is a nutjob.

Personally, I admit theories that have no evidence yet, such theories only have to pass the falsifiability test.

[StavrosK]

You can never prove scientific theories, only disprove them.