Originally Posted by
Koyote
You have got this precisely backwards.The whole point of scientific testing is to TRY to disprove a hypothesis.
So when a particle accelerator is used to find a particle that is theorized to exist, that was an effort to disprove the theory?
Scientific testing is neutral. It performs experiments to document pertinent results. Sometimes those results support the theory, sometimes they disprove it, and sometimes they do neither.