Should theories that no conceivable experiment can confirm be rejected outright?

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    5/21/2008 8:37:54 PM

    This is ill formulated question. Does it ask for an experiment that could, theoretically, prove that the theory is 100% right, or does it ask for an experiment that agrees with some postulates and predictions of the theory, thus confirming it? If it is the latter, then the question is trivial - if there is no experiment that agrees with anything that the theory presents, the theory is necessarily false.