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Charles Seife describes my feeling about every scientific or journalistic text I read.

What he does not describe is my disability to understand most topics good enough to find out if a source is reliable or not. That a paper got into a famous money-making journal certainly is not a guarantee for reliability.

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I didn't think reliable was gradable. Conversely, singular a + more usualy commanding plural agreement is two juxtaposed determiners selling one off as adverb.

Why not suggest instead to check more reliable sources. Would that sound too diminishing, and an indefinite determiner is added as buffer?

Well, if I tried learning linguistics only from Wikipedia I won't ever find out.

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