> They have background in interpreting the law and in listening to and evaluating expert testimony. Listen to one of the Flat Earth videos on Youtube. Flat Ear

> They have background in interpreting the law and in listening to and evaluating expert testimony. Listen to one of the Flat Earth videos on Youtube. Flat Earthers have very persuasive arguments, and they can be very personable. Now imagine that the opposing side is a tongue-tied bureaucrat who is afraid of public speeches. In other words, exactly somebody who would want to work as an expert for a government agency. And imagine that it's not the Flat Earth that they're discussing, but a boring point about alpha-helixes in peptides, or PFAS in drinking water. How would it go? And we don't even have to imagine that. The infamous leaded gasoline hearing in 1925 went exactly like that.