Why do you think this wouldn't be accepted? I know in my field of biology if a person were to disprove an existing theory it would be an important work. My coll

Why do you think this wouldn't be accepted? I know in my field of biology if a person were to disprove an existing theory it would be an important work. My colleague was just scooped in Science on work that disproves the ribosome spacing hypothesis when it comes to translation initiation and codon optimization.