If as a primary school student you had needed to reverify every fact /experiment that was presented in your textbooks, you would not have gotten very far.

Trust is very important to human progress.

I find the fact that 39% of papers use a style that signals lack of effort somewhat worrisome. Even if that’s 100% wrong, and they’re all high effort papers, the fact that they give off the same aura as low effort papers is a problem for the authors.