[TomOnTheRun]

Nice foot shot. Oh, and he was full of crap.

No - in the absence of evidence to the contrary you work with the evidence you have while regularly testing it. That's they way scientific method works. A lot of scientific ideas have been discredited over the centuries by just such means. Sometimes by people that believed in them up to the time they they performed the test that discredited it.

[Mojave]

No - in the absence of evidence to the contrary you work with the evidence you have while regularly testing it.

There was NO evidence for his absurd superstitions.