The Importance of Doing Your Own Research

There's this whole fad now for doing your own research. You know, if the claim is right, then you should spend time looking at it. But that logic doesn't actually work because scientists disagree with each other. Scientists can be wrong. So when I read a paper like this, I'm looking for an acknowledgement of what people might expect and why we are different. And I didn't see that in these papers. All they're telling me is we've solved some equations, we got this result, isn't that awesome?"