It is impossible to be an expert on everything. In fact it is really hard to be an expert on one single thing. At some point you have to either yield to the exp

It is impossible to be an expert on everything. In fact it is really hard to be an expert on one single thing. At some point you have to either yield to the experts, or be wrong. It's a really stupid thing to choose to be wrong, instead of trust the experts. This is why we have careers and specialties ("authorities", to give it another word). When you break your arm, you don't go learn bone medicine from scratch while your arm turns gangrenous. That would be stupid. You go to the doctor because fixing broken bones is their specialty and not yours. Similarly, climate change is staring us in the face, and Thiel is going "nah, screw the experts, I know better" and spending his resources to send us straight into the surface of the sun. That's stupid. There's nothing to respect in his bold, willful ignorance causing harm to everyone on the planet.