I don’t feel like it’s unethical to write a paper along the lines of “If this is not noise, then such and such theory could explain it.” Then people could make

I don’t feel like it’s unethical to write a paper along the lines of “If this is not noise, then such and such theory could explain it.” Then people could make judgements about further consequences of that theory and whether it makes more sense for the theory to be correct or for it to be noise.