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it made testable predictions and was falsified for them. There are a lot of retrodictive and purely theoretical constraints on a candidate ToE, they have to be pretty good just to be in the running.
Do you have specific examples in mind?
Phlogiston. Falsified because combusted materials gain weight.
Ah, I was confused by your statement and thought that "it" meant string theory.