You Forgot Step 4.

Step 4: Don’t Bow To Coercion. If it is only abstract theory that contradicts you, persist. Only accept nature’s empirical verdicts.

Proponents of the prevailing paradigm will resist your new idea with various means, such as completely ignoring it, discrediting you personally, exclusively highlighting weaknesses (which all theories have) while totally ignoring strengths of the theory, selectively invoking “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof” while giving the prevailing paradigm a pass on this criterion, continually moving the goal posts by always asking for further proof or answers to questions no one can answer.

T.S Kuhn described this with historical examples in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Here is a relevant comment from members of an increasingly rare group of eminent scientists who are willing to question orthodoxy.

“A common misconception is that experiments can be used to falsify a theory. In practice, a failing theory gets increasingly immunized against experiment by attempts to patch it.”

And here is another relevant comment by Haldane:

“Theories have four stages of acceptance: i. This is worthless; ii. This is interesting, but perverse; iii. This is true, but quite unimportant; iv. I always said so.”

And here is the warning/advice that Planck gave Einstein when the Einstein told Planck about his ideas for General Relativity, which would overthrow Newtonian gravitation, among other things.

“You are almost certainly wrong, and even if you are right, no one will believe you.”

Lucky for us, Einstein persisted.