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scientific-method

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Put a claim, a theory or a whole argument to the test, and hand back which steps the record confirms, which it contradicts, which an ordinary explanation already covers, which rest on a weak move, and which are reasonable conjecture still worth pursuing. Pulls every claim out word for word, writes the competing hypotheses before weighing anything, writes traps that would embarrass the grading, gathers the record apart from the argument, grades each claim's reasoning and its record in two passes that never see each other, weighs the hypotheses only on evidence that tells them apart, checks every striking coincidence against how often chance would produce it, and tests the grader before trusting it. Use on a podcast, video, article, thread or pitch that makes contested claims ('put this to the test', 'fact-check this episode', 'is this conspiracy theory any good', 'stress-test this theory', 'what would refute this', 'competing hypotheses', 'is this a coincidence'), and on our own conjectures: a bug's root cause, a product bet, a surprising result ('are we sure', 'what else could explain this', 'scientific method', '/scientific-method'). Never decides anyone's guilt, honesty or motives.