[rstuart4133]

Your question is like asking "how can I verify this rod is 1m long if I can't ask an expert". The answer is of course you measure it. That's much more reliable than asking an expert. However, the results of many papers take a huge amount of work to replicate, so we've built a network of experts over the years to evaluate them.

But this is open source, so TL;DR: you download the code, run it, and see if it gets the results claimed.

[smokel]

Have you tried that with the code repository that we're discussing here? It took this trained professional over an hour to get started, and then I gave up. It would take an additional 24 hours and quite some hardware simply to reproduce the results, and then probably a few weeks to actually understand what is going on. All in all, not very practical.