This seems false—the quote illustrates that one should not believe everything just because it was written by a scientist, but there is also such a thing as being too skeptical. With a bit of effort you can deny pretty much any conclusion you dislike. Behaving as advised in this quote is better than taking scientists’ word on blind faith, but in order to actually learn the truth from scientific writing you need to invest a lot more effort than just this!
This seems false—the quote illustrates that one should not believe everything just because it was written by a scientist, but there is also such a thing as being too skeptical. With a bit of effort you can deny pretty much any conclusion you dislike. Behaving as advised in this quote is better than taking scientists’ word on blind faith, but in order to actually learn the truth from scientific writing you need to invest a lot more effort than just this!