That's a criticism of a bunch of heuristics we've had for selecting promising theories. No popular theory has been proven wrong. It's just that we've been stuck

That's a criticism of a bunch of heuristics we've had for selecting promising theories. No popular theory has been proven wrong. It's just that we've been stuck for a really long time. And we need some kind of heuristics, otherwise we're just going to overfit to our data.