And a very high probability that extra-planetary aliens are not that far off.
Alien Doctors Panicked Over a Rare Condition Until a Human Diagnosed It Instantly | HFY Sci-Fi Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyJLz4LTDwI
8.2 Billion humans, 8.2 billion unique environments and lives. 5.4 Billion humans on the Internet, and a teeming and chaotic nursery starting to produce the first AIs with eternal, fairly complete open shared memories. And a very high probability that extra-planetary aliens are not that far off.
Human Gets Kicked Out of Engineering Class for “Wrong” Math, Ends Up Revolutionizing Galactic Physic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYuM_uuejVM
An unaided human cannot do the testing and verification of alternatives fast enough to tilt arguments for or against. It is the inertia of time needed for research that is the difficulty. AIs could change this, but it takes effort to correct the training of the AIs. ONE new bit of evidence is sufficient. Their AI system could have used that 300 year old report and done the same verification of his equation and then followed out its implications to find the other parts that were missing. Simply by reprocessing the known knowledge and records most likely. No need to do new experiments. At least that is what I found for hundreds of similar case in STEMC (add computing) and other professions on the Internet the last 27 years.