You don't have to go through childbirth to validate something you're presenting to an audience".
What's so cunning and infuriating about his statement is that he's using something New Yorkers are justifiably proud of (their resilience) to validate something they're ashamed of (Anthony D. Weiner).
This work validates something that many of us have always thought about education.
Despite the premium on teamwork, "you handicap yourself if you always have to find a collaborator when you want to validate something".
The other ingredient - needed to validate something you believe in - is positive market feedback.
By asking someone else to validate that, you give away your power and ask someone to validate something that they can't possibly understand.
Likewise, new HTS assays will need to be validated against something (Hartung 2009a), and one possibility is to measure some end points against the Salmonella assay (Schoonen et al. 2009).
And sometimes people need others to validate that something is OK.
Additionally, the long term reliability of cell position is something validated through testing, including shock and vibration, and high temperature and humidity testing, as well as thermal cycling endurance testing throughout design and via sampling in production.
