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by lawnchair_larry 4502 days ago
> At some point you're going to have to move past the author and evaluate the words on the page on their own merit.

For this type of writing, you can't. You don't have the experience or the data to judge anything. That's just how expert advice works. It's not falsifiable to anyone that would be learning from it, so that's why the credentials are important.