[StavrosK]

I don't understand that. Since I can't educate myself on everything required to make an informed decision on whether the paper is true or not, I decide to just trust someone else's opinion. I pick people to trust based on various criteria (how well they've cited their sources, how much other trustworthy people trust them, etc) and then just blindly believe whatever they say.

What else can I do?

[mquander]

> how well they've cited their sources, how much other trustworthy people trust them, etc

That sounds to me like a "regard to how they reached those conclusions" (maybe a regard to how they reached a subset of their conclusions, and extrapolating to the rest). It's not the most regard you could possibly have, but it's lots.