> You're advocating giving up all agency and placing 100% trust in a person. Not at all. Placing provisional trust in am expert about a specific opinion you ar

> You're advocating giving up all agency and placing 100% trust in a person. Not at all. Placing provisional trust in am expert about a specific opinion you are aware may change in the future is completely different from "giving up all agency" or "placing 100% trust in a person. Nothing in that advice tells you not to check the opinions of a few different experts to be sure you aren't being misled. > The latter is nearly impossible when an issue becomes political. It's not that hard. You find experts who seem to do a good job of acknowledging nuance and don't seem to be trying to make their facts fit a narrative. What you don't do is trust someone because what they say on completely different topics matches what you believe or trust someone because they consistently give you the answers you want to hear. Doing either of those is worse than just blindly trusting experts.