Re: Phlogiston / an hypothesis... was falisifeied.
One of the major problems with how science is done today across all the fields is that we need people conducting repeat experiments so we can assess the accuracy of the initial experiment. Unfortunately, this doesn't bring grant money when it should. Without the verifiable component, we end up with questionable research such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. That was a thang for quite a while before someone actually went and tried to replicate the experiments.
I don't want to think at all about my primary "science," economics.