Even if you don't want to just summarise the comments, you can view the comments section for most articles as crowd-sourced research on the topic. You can easil

Even if you don't want to just summarise the comments, you can view the comments section for most articles as crowd-sourced research on the topic. You can easily walk away from most interesting discussions here with a shortlist of topical articles, books, etc, and often some colour commentary straight from the horse's mouth.