A given model of the physical world is meant to be "scientific" if it is falsifiable. Falsifiable model is not irrefutable truth; there is a possibility to be proven wrong. This gives science a chance of improvement. Higgs mechanism is not falsifiable and cannot be considered "scientific"; rather it is "pseudo-science". Higgs boson is artificially made up momentary flux of energy, released here and there, in proton collisions and does not prove the existence of the Higgs field.
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