I think the idea here is that the choice on which hypothesis to verify is based on the risk assessment of the scientist whose goal is to optimize successful results and hence better theories are more likely to surface. In this way one does not need to form a consensus around the theory but instead make consensus on what constitutes a successful result.

Ideally this would be true, but funding agencies are already preloaded with implicit asssumptions what constitutes a scientific progress.

And how do you verify hypothesis? What is the process to do that?