It gets you from "I don't know anything" to "these are the plausible theories". It doesn't, it just lets you wrap your biases and motivated reasoning in a vene

It gets you from "I don't know anything" to "these are the plausible theories". It doesn't, it just lets you wrap your biases and motivated reasoning in a veneer of rigour that isn't really there. After all, you're the one picking the 'axioms' out of an infinite set and they aren't used for anything else. There isn't anything wrong with idle speculation but there also isn't anything wrong with people pointing some idle speculation is largely baseless.