Scientia commented that open-minded scientist does not dismiss theories that he/she does not agree with without objectively examining the evidence. I would add that an open-minded scientist does discard a theory they have believed if it fails empirically even if the failure is preceded by many confirmations. Suppose (in math) one theorizes that all whole numbers are evenly divisible by two; one can produce an unlimited number of confirming examples, but only one example, say the number three, proves the theory invalid. There are many verifiable empirical falsifications of special relativity, but in this case physicists are not open-minded. One falsification, for example, is the absence of time dilation between GPS satellite atomic clocks: they all run at the same rate even though their relative velocity is in most cases greater than their orbital velocity.
