No it's not. It's a useful heuristic to adjust your priors before engaging with the work. It's also a useful bit of information when making the decision what t

No it's not. It's a useful heuristic to adjust your priors before engaging with the work. It's also a useful bit of information when making the decision what to spend time on. Obviously this is a decision that you have to make before reading the paper. If you're a bit familiar with typical physics crackpottery there are many other red flags that might tell you this is not worth your time.