>>13541923As someone in academics I can tell you with great certainty "established" basically means nothing
Go ahead pull figures aout of your ass and send it to a peer reviewed journal, you will eventually get it published. We did...
Check this out:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778 70% of results cannot be repeated
and 50% cannot even repeat their own results
Established just means that back whenever a few people -and nobody else since then- looked into it decided it had merit
The point is you decide internally what is trustworthy and what is not, for some reason you choose (perhaps wisely) to mistrust something you know nothing about while trust another thing you also know nothing about
