> For example, if Knuth decided to post some utter garbage chances are it would accepted based on his name alone. You mean like Elon Musk? When he came up with

> For example, if Knuth decided to post some utter garbage chances are it would accepted based on his name alone. You mean like Elon Musk? When he came up with that giant box to extract kids from a cave with passages so narrow rescuers couldn't wear their air tanks on them, they had to push them ahead of themselves, reddit and HN and twitter were full of people defending him. There were even people defending him when he accused the rescue leader of being a pedo - simply because he was british and living in thailand. Or how about the CEO of Brave, who apparently is an expert in public health, viruses, vaccines, epidemiology, etc? Endlessly defended here on HN any time his name comes up.