"You can't "disprove" anything anyway." is a nonsense statement. The "law of parsimony" is nonsense. Their ideas are right if they can produce a force and if the experiment can be repeated and no one can find a provable error in the experiment.
This is a worthless article. People some of which are scientists keep forgetting the experiment is the sole reality check of the scientific method. You can claim the experiment is in error, but preexisting theory does not disprove experiment.
I never used the term controlled experiments. It would not be wise to repeat the asteroid collision with the earth that killed the dinosaurs. However many observational experiments proved the result. Once again experiment is the sole reality check of science.
This article talks like scientific consensus is the reality check of science. Experiment is the sole reality check of science. The article raises conformity above freedom of speech. The scientist may be wrong because the evidence is misinterpreted. However there is no cause for panic.