"Trust but verify" isn't applicable in a situation where any sentence in a passage could be randomly false. If you have to verify every part of something, you'd

"Trust but verify" isn't applicable in a situation where any sentence in a passage could be randomly false. If you have to verify every part of something, you'd have been better off doing the work yourself. (Unrelated, you're also better off doing work yourself because that's how you build expertise, but no one's really talking about that.)