Unless you're an expert in the field, you are going to partially rely on how much you trust the messenger, for any reasonably complex message.

Even if you're an expert, you can't read every paper in every journal. There aren't enough hours in the day.

That was the context of JumpCrisscross's original question. You could say kelseyfrog's response is stuck in a local optimum, or that it's just part of a different conversation altogether.