If your takeaway from 2020 is not "domain experts are always right, and there's no need for independent research from the outside"... you learned a really bad l

If your takeaway from 2020 is not "domain experts are always right, and there's no need for independent research from the outside"... you learned a really bad lesson. That most certainly is not my takeaway, but perhaps you mistyped. What I had reinforced in 2020, however, was that though domain experts occasionally make a bad call (including you, dear reader), I'd still take their opinion over some random jackass on the Internet spouting off about "yeah, but remember when they told us not to wear masks?"