The situations are not analogous in so many ways. One of the main points in science is that credentials shouldn't matter (lots of great research is done by peo

The situations are not analogous in so many ways. One of the main points in science is that credentials shouldn't matter (lots of great research is done by people without a Dr title and lots of shit by those with a Dr title), the research was published so they could actually go and look at it easily. And given the timescales and stakes involved they should have: Not following a construction worker direction can be pretty bad while doing so the most you lose is a bit of time. This was also the actual job of science journalists and it takes roughly three minutes to look up a paper and check the basics like sample and effect size. They definitely have the time. Also, there is a metric fuckton of junk science. Heard of the replication crisis? Your analogy would need 1/3 of men posing as construction workers to not be construction workers!