&gt;&quot;And when the facts and evidence are overwhelmingly against them, they rely on unsubstantiated theorizing to hand-wave them away.&quot;<p>Facts can&#x27;t be &#x27;against&#x27; something. That&#x27;s silly, anthropomorphism.  Facts must necessarily be interpreted, they are themselves meaningless until we choose to apply them toward some argument, which must, axiomatically, require some amount of unsubstantiated theorizing.<p>Have you no sense of the history of the philosophy of science at all?