OrphanWilde comments on What are your rules of thumb? - Less Wrong
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"...but question data last." is the necessary addition for my rule of thumb. The vast majority of the time that the conclusion is wrong, the conclusion didn't follow from the data supposedly used in evidence of it anyways.