While technically correct (the best kind of correct!) your final sentence seems to be a fairly ludicrous position to me -- in general scientists spend (quite a

While technically correct (the best kind of correct!) your final sentence seems to be a fairly ludicrous position to me -- in general scientists spend (quite a lot) more time learning about biases and other flaws in rigorous thinking and how to avoid them, studying and discussing all of that existing knowledge, learning how to perform experiments, performing them, interpreting the results, etc. all of which lead directly to them having a much more qualified opinion than "any other person" does.