Believing in experts

[GMDino]

(07-01-2023, 07:31 PM)Stewy Wrote: As a scientist myself, the thing that bugs me the most is people believe expert conclusions.  People need to dig into the meat of issues themselves, find the sources and data and draw their own conclusions.

Odds are your "expert" has a political bias to their conclusions anyway, so if you aren't digging in yourself, it is highly likely you are being manipulated.  

The scientific methods declares every set of data, should have three viable conclusions/solutions.  If you're only getting one conclusion from an "expert", you're absolutely being manipulated.

Thisi s why whenever, I delve into giving an expert opinion on geoscience or Oil Industry matters, I provide multitudes of links, and images and share my conclusions based upon the observations.  But the observations are what's important.  I always want you all to dig into the data I provide and draw your own conclusions, though I'll always give an opinion of course.  :)

You are not wrong.  Being diligent and looking into things is great!  But you, for example, who has a background in that are of study doing is one thing.  My accountant friend who "knows" things will search until he finds one article to disprove a trove of supporting article as his "proof".

I don't believe I said to follow the experts blindly and I agree that even if they did everything "right" it is worthwhile to continue to investigate the subject.  That *IS* what science is to me.