Concepts for Your Cognitive Toolkit
I think "Algernon's law" and the "Efficient Market Hypothesis" are suspect because they amount to "Just So Stories"[1] about the vastly complicated topics of neurobiology and investing.  Limiting the field of inquiry of researchers and specialists in these topic by proclaiming these broad general laws, and thus ignoring possibly useful new technology, theory, or experimental evidence is not rational.<p>1. <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ad_hoc" rel="nofollow">http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ad_hoc</a>