> "All research should be taken with a grain of salt" It's hard for any one person to read tens or hundreds of papers on a subject and critically examine them

> "All research should be taken with a grain of salt" It's hard for any one person to read tens or hundreds of papers on a subject and critically examine them for fallacies, look for fake data, etc. It's just not plausible. At this rate, if us commonfolk are just expected to take a default position of not believing a scientific study or consensus until we personally vet them, what are we to actually believe? Do I need to go out and personally vet that evolution is real by personally reproducing some fruit fly studies? We're heading down a scary road if we cannot trust our scientific institutions to be unbiased.