Not According To Real Scientists Like Einstein!

Einstein said that if the eclipse predictions for General Relativity were not vindicated then the theory was not viable, i.e., falsified.

That is because General Relativity was a theory of principle that was capable of definitive predictions, which are prior, feasible, quantitative, NON-ADJUSTABLE, and unique to the theory. When a ToP fails a test, it is wrong and the theorist needs to go back to the basic assumptions to see where he/she went wrong.

We need to distinguish between theories of principle (the best science) and model-building (what modern scientists do when they don’t really know WTF nature is doing). In M-B theorists create credible models that more or less reproduce observations. When the models fail they just tack on epicycles. M-B is better than just giving up, but if carried too far the models become ever more Ptolemaic. See T.S. Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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