>> How do people become experts? By leveraging your academic credentials, legal authority and social connections to promote an agenda (e.g. corporate agenda) t

>> How do people become experts? By leveraging your academic credentials, legal authority and social connections to promote an agenda (e.g. corporate agenda) through carefully crafted lies which intelligent people in your field cannot easily disprove but which the masses will openly embrace because it aligns with their primal incentives. It's about being able to bypass people's logic and reasoning skills and appealing to their underlying primal instincts; namely their need to feel safe, to feel accepted, to acquire resources, etc... The main role of experts is to give people a false sense of certainty and safety.