I'm reminded of how a friend of mine years ago described the rhetorical style of Dianetics: "So, A, Yes, I realize that A is counterintuitive and implausible, but really, A. No, don't just take my word for it, here's a whole lot of evidence in favor of A. And here are some arguments against A, and why they're flawed. And here are alternatives to A, which turn out to be false. And given A and B, it's clear that C..." where B is completely unsupported nonsense.