This isn't an argument. This is a description of an angle on staying alive, better, for longer. It's a competitive advantage in a Darwinian situation.

Don't read thousands of papers. Read some papers. Not too carefully. Mostly published ones.

Why talk to people? There are billions of them? It would take many years? C'mon.

Which ones? This one in particular is special? See the problem? I still need to trust some authority on which ones to spend time on.

I think the parent was implying that we should try to avoid bias by reading it ourselves, but I still need to trust someone, so still getting biased feedback. "reading the paper" does not remove the bias, because I still need to narrow it down to read only specific ones.