Four steps of modern skepticism

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  1. Question: How could this be wrong?
  2. Hypothesise: This - some given thing/scenario/reason, no matter how unlikely, implausible, and unsupported by evidence - is how it could be wrong.
  3. Reason: That, then, is why it is wrong.
  4. Conclude: Therefore, it is wrong.
Be careful to apply these absolutely logically valid steps only to ideas in whose falsity you are invested, and not to your own ideas - to which they could equally be applied. Skepticism, after all, is about proving shonky thinkers wrong, and you are a bastion of evidence-based reason.
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