Great word: ‘paradogma’ defined by Paul as “a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model that is so incontrovertibly true for a person or group of people that it excludes the existence and value of all other patterns or models” and further as “a world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject that the users see as the only world view that is of any value (e.g., the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama’s is not the legitimate president of the United States because he is not a natural-born US citizen is the paradogma of birthers in the United States)”.