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14 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 July 2013 01:38PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 July 2013 08:58:45AM 3 points [-]

Your own brainpower is overrated. Unless you suspect that politics has rotten the field completely, a large collection of experts will be more likely to find flaws than you on your own.

I agree with the checking against external references, though! Experts don't do this enough, so you can add a lot of value by doing this.