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by dotnet00 743 days ago
Pre-LLM madness, most decent scientists were capable of judging the reliability of a source, at least to an extent. Eg if the source is a paper in a decent journal, it probably has at least some substance to it and the basic facts are probably not wrong, if the paper is a zero-citation paper on vixra where none of the authors have any reasonable history, you'll probably have to check everything.