Accepting conclusions that have been accepted by a sufficient number of marginally trustworthy people is not necessarily a bad heuristic. He might gain more from dogma if he won't persevere through the reading, though a list that people are publically being pointed to could lead to people pointing fingers, saying "cult".
I think the value of the sequences is that they change heuristics of thinking that many people who read them use. I would guess that you don't get that value by simply reading conclusions.
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