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Scientists reserve the right to disagree with each other's conclusions and openly challenge new ideas trying to ascend the mountain of "orthodoxy."
It is because of this rigor, some question the usage of things like the phrase "theory," as if the scientists are not sure, and if they were they'd state it as "fact."
That is the nature of The Scientific Method: it keeps us all honest.
"Research groups at the Tevatron, the proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, have reached starkly different conclusions about a possible sighting of new particles beyond what is expected under the standard model of particle physics."
Nature News: Tevatron team clash over new physics
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