My own experience in plasma physics contradicts yours. I've been in research labs where the PIs would throw journal articles, relevant to our work, in the trash

My own experience in plasma physics contradicts yours. I've been in research labs where the PIs would throw journal articles, relevant to our work, in the trash after reading them and subsequently telling us what was intrinsically wrong with the papers. These weren't papers from unknown institutions, a couple were from PPPL.