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If as a primary school student you had needed to reverify every fact /experiment that was presented in your textbooks, you would not have gotten very far. Trus

If as a primary school student you had needed to reverify every fact /experiment that was presented in your textbooks, you would not have gotten very far. Trust is very important to human progress.

jrm4 3mo ago
Absolutely. Which is why what I think I'm saying is that -- it's not ncessarily important who or what WROTE the paper, it's simply important that human-in-the-loop is strong.
- jsrozner 3mo ago
  Right, but even careful reading cannot validate the experimental setup.