It’s a bit more subtle than that. Not all papers are equal and I’d trust an article from a large team where error and uncertainty analysis has been done properl

It’s a bit more subtle than that. Not all papers are equal and I’d trust an article from a large team where error and uncertainty analysis has been done properly (think the Higgs boson paper) over a handful of dodgy experiments that are barely documented properly. But yeah, in the grand scheme of things if it hasn’t been replicated, then it hasn’t been proven, but some works are credible on their own.