Evidence

My thought on ‘evidence’ — the most important thing when sharing photos, scientific papers, measurements, and other materials is that the Methodology used is also made available.

If someone rejects the accompanying artifact(s) then they need to have a very good reason where they can either show an inconsistency in the material artifacts with reality or they need to put forth a good faith attempt to replicate the results and show some error that way.

There should also be some provenance provided — if you’re sharing someone else’s images or data and you don’t know anything about it, that can be a cause for it to be rejected. This is not saying that, say, rejecting all NASA images as ‘fake’ is valid reasoning.