It is true that revolutionary theories may be both true and controversial but they are rarely friendless or obviously wrong to nearly all practitioners of the relevant fields and those theories are legion and without merit.

Without being up to date in the minutia of every field one will be ill disposed to judge which of 100 piles of nonsense extant at any given time are real discoveries and which bunkum and ones work as a journalist would be so compromised by the 1000 lies one spread that none should believe the one truth they uncovered.

I wouldn't credit anyone so stupid as not to consult ones peers.