Comment by sam_goody

There are fields where I feel confident to have an opinion, and fields where I am entirely out of my league.

HN is full of people like myself, each with their own partially overlapping fields of expertise.

When I see something new, I don't say "well, this goes against my intuition, it must be wrong". I say, "well, this is new, and sounds fishy - but is out of my field. I wonder what real geneticists on HN have to say about it".

There are a world of unintuitive facts that I have learned this way (I plan on making a site of such things, but.. maybe next week).

As they say, be open minded, but not enough to let your brain fall out.