[larryfreeman]

Rationality is only a pathway to reliable information when it makes clear its assumptions (i.e. axioms or postulates) and sticks to logical proof.

Empiricism is only useful when it adequately adopts Occam's Razor to stay focused on the facts and has a clear understanding of the difference between correlation and causality.

Want to disprove a mainstream position? Find a commonly held false assumption or some fact that cannot be explained by the current approaches. Keep it simple and be open to having this point explained with standard methods.

Read T.S. Kuhn if necessary to understand what it typically takes to change a scientific paradigm.

Everything else is just noise with the purpose of making a given community feel enlightened or smarter than the other "fools".