Is there some other method you think would be better?
Either you accept all published research, or none of it, or you view it all with a wary eye. Me, I view it with a wary eye. I believe things can be known in this universe, but I don’t accept the first thing that gets spit out by some PhD somewhere.
I don't see either accepting or rejecting all of it out of hand as being practical. If it's all being treated the same, then this research is just as questionable as the natural selection studies it says may be wrong.