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I'm tempted to say that claiming it's naivete to expect people to do work to evaluate a research paper is naive, as well as ad hominem. If you don't have the ti

I'm tempted to say that claiming it's naivete to expect people to do work to evaluate a research paper is naive, as well as ad hominem. If you don't have the time or expertise to do so, then do the rest of us a favor and don't try. Now, if you're talking about using such criteria as a heuristic to decide which papers to put effort into evaluating, then we have another discussion to have.

vlovich123 4y ago
That’s exactly what I’m saying. I don’t bother trying to evaluate a paper because a) my area of expertise only extends so far b) papers are largely worthless in their ability to communicate where the research done was valid. The replication crises and many many fraudulent papers surely would convince anyone that there’s a real problem with our current system. Maybe you’re a brilliant mind that can separate the wheat from the chaff. Most people, even leading researchers in the field, have trouble though so I don’t feel like I’m in bad company.