> We should also hopefully be in agreement that we should trust people who devote their life to studying an issue over someone new who merely has gut feelings a

> We should also hopefully be in agreement that we should trust people who devote their life to studying an issue over someone new who merely has gut feelings about it -- and hence is even more biased in many additional ways. I have to admit that I don't trust social scientists with anything they say about social science. There have been too many replication failures. I don't think you are entitled to people's deference just because you spend your life doing something, there has to be something more "material" than that. If I spent my life trying to get a girlfriend would you go to me for dating advice? Physics is one thing - you can easily demonstrate the atomic model is correct by building a nuclear fission generator. Computer Science is pretty objective, math.. But almost any other field my reaction is - "okay, well show me, use it". I'm not in the wrong there, you're in the wrong for not effectively proving it to me. Our default should be skepticism.