> But he stuck to his guns and insisted, and then played the "professional chemist" card, saying "I think I know a little bit more about chemistry than a guy wh

> But he stuck to his guns and insisted, and then played the "professional chemist" card, saying "I think I know a little bit more about chemistry than a guy who makes webpages." This is precisely why authority has no role in science, why evidence outranks eminence. "Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." — Richard Feynman