"I have literally any experience with false rumors on account of having once been a six-year-old boy, I suppose; and some abstract understanding of the phenomenon as a bad equilibrium that motivates precautions to avoid it.  But yes, adults who follow simple epistemic hygiene procedures are not subject to that phenomenon."

"I think if I heard anything really ridiculous, I would have managed to distrust that on grounds of Golarion generally seeming to have epistemic problems, but your caution is well-taken.  You're right, that might not have occurred to me.  Is there some particular rumor circulating that you're concerned I might have believed?"

Keltham is, of course, already considering the proposition that this dire rumor, whatever it is, is going to be completely true.

"I have literally any experience with false social beliefs on account of having once been a six-year-old boy, I suppose; and some abstract understanding of the phenomenon as a bad equilibrium that motivates precautions to avoid it.  But yes, adults who follow simple epistemic hygiene procedures are not subject to that phenomenon."

"I think if I heard anything really ridiculous, I would have managed to distrust that on grounds of Golarion generally seeming to have epistemic problems, but your caution is well-taken.  You're right, that might not have occurred to me.  Is there some particular 'rumor' circulating that you're concerned I might have believed?"

Keltham is, of course, already considering the proposition that this dire 'rumor', whatever it is, is going to be completely true.