I'm not going to opine on this arguement, but I believe https://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=52402 is a must-read for anyone that isn't deeply involved in scientific research and writing.

In my own experience, at the very beginning of my career, I have made the foolish mistake of taking theories for true -- in EVERY circumstance -- and been burned by it when I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting the results that matched my intuition.

Theories are only as good as their reproducibility, i.e their "probability of being true" percentage.