We have a limited amount of attention to give and trust to offer, so we filter ideas with heuristics. One of the heuristics is that if someone says something v

We have a limited amount of attention to give and trust to offer, so we filter ideas with heuristics. One of the heuristics is that if someone says something very left-field, does not qualify why it falls out of consensus, and it appears the same as arguments made by politically motivated actors, we trust it a lot less. Especially when that person has no expertise in the area and is mostly famous for a completely different thing.