lostmsu, IMO that is not a reasonable thing to expect because: - Papers are hard to read and understand for even for people in the profession. - For a resonan

lostmsu, IMO that is not a reasonable thing to expect because: - Papers are hard to read and understand for even for people in the profession. - For a resonantly skilled person outside of the profession (say an engineer or physicist) it might take about 3 days to a week to read and understand a paper fully. - A large part of the population - my guess easily over 50% will never be able to read and understand a paper. - Papers can be fraudulent, data can be fudged, or entirely made up. The researchers could be biased etc. I'm not saying that every paper out there needs to be ignored, rather that the signal to noise ration is rather small. - Controversial findings are often not published.