What is not a theory is that scientists have too much time on their hands coming up with more and more theories. Until they present facts their theories belong in comic books.
What also isn't in question is that you obviously have no real idea how science works, or why scientists propose as many plausible hypotheses as they can think of, and then continue to perform validation/falsification tests on them as long as it takes for the results to clearly indicate which explanation is the correct one (or closest to the correct one, anyway).
"...why scientists propose as many plausible hypotheses as they can think of, and then continue to perform validation/falsification tests on them as long as it takes for the results to clearly indicate which explanation is the correct one (or closest to the correct one, anyway)."
Even you admit they are guessing!!!
The problem with the scientific community today is many have politicized the process of validation of their ideas. They present some of the most convoluted/ridiculous theories as FACT instead of the educated guesses they truly are (I use the term educated loosely here). I have nothing against the scientific method properly and honestly applied to test hypotheses and I do believe there are many researchers who are honest, but there are many who are only reporting/validating the person paying them to do their research.
OTH, YOU respond with personal attacks against those here who have contempt for these would be Einsteins. Pehaps your feelings are hurt by the low opinion some of us hold for these scientific parasites spewing their garbage. My comments were and are not meant personally to you, only to the subject at hand. You have absolutely no idea as to the level of my education and/or experience. The fact I criticize the scientific community does not make me any less intelligent than you sir/madam.
So you're saying science is just one "shot in the dark" after another, or put another way, "A bunch of wild-ass guesses" (SWAG)?
"Science" today has been prostituted by the left to be just another hammer to force their warped view of the world on the rest of us politically. Just as one doesn't need to be a meteorologist to know when it's going to rain, you don't need to be a "scientist" to smell the BS.
You left out "peer review". They produce theories that their "peers" agree with. It is not only their opinion it is the opinion of elitists that that won't see the light of day unless it has their stamp of approval on it. It's called "The scientific establishment" and to get along you better toe the line of the elitists. To suggest that I don't see the big picture is pure bunk. I spent three hours in a public meeting last night listening to environmentalist poppycock. I know what the big picture looks like and it leaves out a whole bunch of people that have common sense.