&gt;Hire two and have one check the other.<p>Not if you don&#x27;t trust the field. It&#x27;s like saying if you don&#x27;t like your numerology readings hire a different numerologist and compare the results.<p>Not saying I agree with the view but science is a lot less convincing when when you can&#x27;t setup repeatable experiments.<p>&gt;And no, it&#x27;s not unreasonable to expect a non-technical person to review the data or the methods either.<p>You&#x27;re going to review PHD level work that ran weather simulations on supercomputers and compiled various data sources with highschool level knowledge in your spare time ?<p>Perhaps you could do a security audit of OpenSSL if you have some free time on your hands - I&#x27;m sure people will even pay you if you manage to find security issues and you&#x27; be doing the community a big favor. Maybe we should hire some highschool grads to do it - start a kickstarter campaign and I&#x27;ll pitch in.