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Heretical checklist

What it producesalso: heretic · the standing · heterodox · not mainstream

The four tests a heretical hypothesis must pass: it revises a subfield, is not mainstream, has an empirical anchor, and predicts a testable surprise.

Every set of rivals must contain a heretic that contradicts the mainstream account. On the page the section "The standing" says why the hypothesis is not the mainstream account, using this checklist.

Where"The standing" on a hypothesis page