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When people write articles containing wrong statements and statements without evidence or source, you can use your knowledge of the wrong statements to update the probability that the statements without evidence or source are true.
Kind of the reverse of Gell-Mann Amnesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect). Arguably, it should be applied to editorial units (sites, publications, etc.), not just to individual authors.