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|Verdict=OpenAccepted|Date Assessed Year=2021|Date Assessed Month=October|Date Assessed Day=8

|Verdict Rationale=The commentators agreed that "the historical cases of scientific error identified and treated by Machado-Marques and Patton effectively demonstrate the compatibility of instances of scientific error with the theory rejection theorem".^{[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2021-0004#comment-183|c1]] [[Modification_talk:Sciento-2021-0004#comment-159|c2]] [[Modification_talk:Sciento-2021-0004#comment-182|c3]]} It was agreed that the rejection of a theory that was accepted erroneously can be "a result of the acceptance of other theories incompatible with it - be these some first- or second-order theories".^{[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2021-0004#comment-159|c4]] [[Modification_talk:Sciento-2021-0004#comment-182|c5]] [[Modification_talk:Sciento-2021-0004#comment-185|c6]]} One commentator expressed a common opinion when saying that "the authors are able to put to rest concerns about the handling of scientific error potentially contravening the theory rejection theorem".^{[[Modification_talk:Sciento-2021-0004#comment-185|c7]]}