[ceejayoz]

This makes us susceptible to what's essentially a Gish gallop, though. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop, for those unfamiliar.)

It takes inordinately more time and knowledge to debunk a false claim than it does to make it.

[taneq]

Also worth noting that false claims need not be malicious to serve as a DOS attack. An army of untrained ‘researchers’ drawing improbable conclusions from randomly combined snippets of scientific papers can generate a huge amount of pseudoscientific ‘sourced-looking’ ideas.

Unfortunately it takes a lot more effort to actually understand a paper then to ‘just throw it out there’.