> But you still can trust someone's credentials are better than your own and that they are giving you a better judgement than your own. You should also underst

> But you still can trust someone's credentials are better than your own and that they are giving you a better judgement than your own. You should also understand that scientists are human and subject to all of human foibles like racism, sexism, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man Not to mention politics, such as when "jewish science/math/etc" rejected. You should trust the replicable experiments, not the scientists. Especially so when "science" and politics gets intermixed. When a "scientist" says "trust me" or when a politician says "trust the scientist I say to trust", that's when you should be the most distrusting.