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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=freeman%20dyson&st=cseAbsolutely! We need always remember that it takes only one, reproducible, negative experiment to blow a theory out of the water, no matter how ingrained, how long, how universally accepted that theory might be. The less hard data available to confirm/deny a theory (model, prediction, projection) the more skeptical we should be. Of course, there are limits! ;-)
I found it intriguing. As scientists are we meant to be skeptics?