DOUBT
to host an "if" is like hosting an insect that breeds and multiplies in the sun of circumstance. Soon one is crawling with "ifs" and is thereby overcome.
Doubters often pool their doubts by associating with like-minded individuals, each bringing his own favorite "dish" as if to a potluck dinner.
Scanning, but doing so while doubting, is the flipside of methodology and it produces flippant conclusions.