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[โ€“] AFKBRBChocolate 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem is, the majority of people don't have the ability to do that kind of analysis. It makes much more sense for them to simply trust the consensus of the scientific community than any other course of action.

[โ€“] HappycamperNZ 9 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately true - get to 2nd and 3rd year uni you start being taught about assessing peer reviewed journal articles based on which journal published them and their relative experience and authority, and the university of the authors and experience of their departments.

No one did it though - God forbid anyone do it based on a 6 second post.