Alvin Goldman's veritistic epistemology and the peer disagreement literature from Christensen and Elga establish that unresolved peer conflict suspends the evidential force of individual evaluator verdicts.
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Goldman's theory that says the goal of belief-formation is to get at the truth, and we should judge whether our methods work by whether they actually lead us to true beliefs.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
peer disagreement(Used to establish an analogy with perceptual illusions regarding the epistemic weight of seemings.)
A situation in which individuals of comparable or superior epistemic standing (peers or superiors) hold a belief that conflicts with one's own belief on the same proposition.