"Good thing Louis Pasteur didn't care if they *believed* in his unreasonable hypothesis!" ...yeah, but the cases are not comparable because Pasteur's were testable and provable....soon they HAD to believe.

"Occam's razor does not work well where it requires the suppression of information..."

"suppression"??? No one is suggesting suppression. 'Information' comes in various flavors. Occam's razor is a filter intended to taste-test ALL explanations OF information, compare it to other explanations, and see if it can be forwarded to other filters. If information fails to explain the phenomena, I guess you could say it is rejected until expanded or corrected.

" Pluritas non est ponendea sine necessitate!" ..it's that necessitate that is the rub. If your metaphysics requires lots of non-demonstrable assumptions, then the razor suggests that it is on shaky ground...as long as simpler, testable assumptions are available.

"demons in your stomach" was a nice theory until science discovered that too many hot peppers gave you ulcers! *grin*