Appeal to traditional science only works for knowledge that you've actually studied the science on, and not papers cherry-picked for you by your own bias or oth

Appeal to traditional science only works for knowledge that you've actually studied the science on, and not papers cherry-picked for you by your own bias or others recommending them. That's so hard that almost nobody does it except scientists themselves and even then, only in their narrow field. So normal people can't really appeal to science as why they trust their beliefs. What most people believe instead is what their peers told them they're supposed to believe to make them a respectable person and just tack "science says" onto it.