Sure, things can be demonstrated to be false. I could make up an economic law or principle right now that would easily be demonstrably false. I do get and agre

Sure, things can be demonstrated to be false. I could make up an economic law or principle right now that would easily be demonstrably false. I do get and agree with your overall point, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. There is certainly hope for economics to eventually develop to a better point. > There is evidence to support pretty much every school of thought, and evidence to contradict it. If there were evidence to literally contradict a school of thought, that school of thought is proven wrong. That is not the same as evidence that seems to argue against a school of thought, yet does not do so conclusively.