I agree in principle, but most people do not have the necessary education to make accurate judgments across all fields from first principle reasoning. Eg someon

I agree in principle, but most people do not have the necessary education to make accurate judgments across all fields from first principle reasoning. Eg someone with a PhD in physics probably doesn’t have the knowledge to debunk every argument against the COVID vaccine. In those cases we naturally rely on asking some biologist who does have that knowledge what they think.