A Worked Clinical Problem

A worked example of Scott's 'General Factor of Correctness' heuristic: a methylation-cycle health site with impressive real biochemistry and credentialed authors that he nonetheless dismisses because it also endorses vaccine-autism and heavy-metal chelation — crackpot signals on one topic discredit domain expertise on another. Ends conceding this only supports the 'filter out crackpots' version, not a stronger positive-selection claim.

Quality 64 · Strong. Strong, low: a real epistemics essay worked through a concrete case, showing the heuristic and its limits with intellectual honesty; a bit shaggy and inside-baseball (references his own prior posts). 64.

Claude’s paradigm shift 48 · Moderate. Moderate: the general-factor / crackpot-filter idea is Scott's recurring theme, here illustrated not introduced. 48.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. An epistemics musing; no material reach. RWI 1.