"But being spectacularly wrong with the approval of a community of experts is much worse than being spectacularly wrong as a lone kook, because it means that th

"But being spectacularly wrong with the approval of a community of experts is much worse than being spectacularly wrong as a lone kook, because it means that the whole field of people we’ve entrusted to serve as experts on a topic somehow allowed itself to embrace total nonsense." That's a great sentence. If we took it to heart it would be a huge epistemic advance. But that's about as likely as sheep deciding not to travel in herds, and for the same reasons.