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The people I've met who do their own "research" do so because they believe the scientific community as a whole is fake. They'd take great pride in not being published.
So publishing validates science? Check out the number of faked Science, *CELL *and Nature papers with hundreds of references. Basically, the whole amyoid hypothesis is built on fake data.
Lancet published Wakefield's bullshit and refused to retract it for 12 years.
A lot of garbage is published.
Yes, I am are aware that while publishing helps validate science, it is not infallible, nor is it presented as such outside of people who haven't even tried to understand the process. There's a pretty big gap between "all published 'science' is fake" and "all published 'science' is real." that I, and most other rational people, fall under.
As I understand it, publishing lets others validate the science. You're not just declaring what you've discovered, you're showing your work - your sources, your data, your references, your processes.
After you've done all that, even if it's crap, someone else expressing an interest in going through all that can be quite a compliment. Or, if you didn't bother dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's, it can make you a mite defensive...
But yes, a lot of trash can be published. And since it is published, it can be shown to be trash, if someone goes to the trouble.