(June 16, 2023 at 9:11 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I should reject your claim to have a formula that turns lead into gold as false on the face of it unless you have a suspiciously large amount of gold. Then it might be worth testing just on the remote chance you're not a charlatan. I have no obligation at all to take your claim seriously just on your say-so.
On the other hand, the 'canon' method you're suggesting is a form of self-brainwashing. The trouble isn't that I don't think it will work, the trouble is that I'm concerned that it will; for reasons that have nothing to do with whether the underlying claim is actually true in real reality or not.
What I'm suggesting with the "in canon method" is Not approach a given subject with a confirmation biased dressed up as 'reasonable scrutiny.'
If a banana bread recipe calls for 4 bananas and you substitute apples, you can't then say 'I knew this band bread recipe wouldn't taste like bananas."
