When I say that we should trust the experts/scientists, I don't mean trust or belief in the same you would trust a priest or a guru or your parents when you're

When I say that we should trust the experts/scientists, I don't mean trust or belief in the same you would trust a priest or a guru or your parents when you're little. Experts should be trusted in their fields because other experts in those fields trust them, and they trust them because they published and they studied and they prove they understand their field. It's not appeal to authority when I go to Einstein and ask about quantum mechanics and then reference his answer that light manifest a wave-particle duality; he is after all an worldwide recognised expert in quantum mechanics. But! If I were to ask him about whether abortion and then say: Abortion is so and so because Einstein says it's so and so and he's worldwide recognised expert -- that is appeal to authority.