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I wouldn't say scientists delight in being proven wrong. Scientists are people, and many of them can be decidedly less than pleased if their pet theories are challenged by other theories. I don't know that the scientists who develop pharmaceuticals are delighted when clinical trials show their treatments to be ineffective.
The scientific community can be just as protective of the status quo as the most devout religious person. Pythagoras allegedly had someone drowned for proving that the square root of 2 was irrational (I realize that he was a mathematician, but whatever). Einstein was notoriously apprehensive about the notion that the universe might not be deterministic He didn't have anyone killed, but he wasn't exactly enthused.
The nice thing about good scientists is that they tend to be slaves to experimental evidence, so things tend to work out well for scientific progress.
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