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We are amateurs and any knowledge that should be held as current best practice must be based on peer reviewed publications. There is room for nutters though as they can be simply dismissed if they do not fit the current paradigm. The only rational criteria is EVIDENCE that proves the current paradigm wrong! It must be self consistent and expand our current knowledge. It cannot go off on a tangent that is non provable. For example the the invisible blue teapot that orbits our planet and is responsible for the Universes existence. It must be able to be negated by experiment.
Plausibility is everywhere, you just need to be highly educated to see through the charlatans. I am heartily sick and tired of all these nutters that claim they have all the answers and have never been published.
Show me a coherent story that is self consistent at all levels and I may waste some time reading it. I have enough trouble keeping up with the peer reviewed papers.
Bert
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