This is similar to the pre-elightenment skepticism of alchemists. Soon after the printing press, scientific communication was invented as a way of addressing th

This is similar to the pre-elightenment skepticism of alchemists. Soon after the printing press, scientific communication was invented as a way of addressing the trust issue. The internet might be forcing a similar shift. I wrote a bit more about this here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.scholarpedia.org/2013/11/04/wikifying-scholarly-canons/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.scholarpedia.org/2013/11/0...