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This is my rather informal answer, so take it with a grain of salt: Theories are rejected/ignored when they do not have a good backing or implications that they might be correct, and are conclusively rejected when experimental data disagrees with them. Theories are considered when they seem plausible, and if all experimental data agrees with them, they are accepted.

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