Believing in experts

[Dill]

(07-03-2023, 04:05 PM)Leon Wrote: a quick google look and you will find all kinds of things science was wrong about but you know that dont you

Sure, as in my Leukemia example. 

Treatments in the 60s were "wrong" and children died.

But doctors learned from their errors,

and as they did, more and more children survived.

Errors allow science to advance. No one is arguing that science is never wrong.

The political question here is on what do we base policy if we want to, say,

protect the nation from a pandemic? Who do we turn to for advice?

If not people who actually study viruses and pandemics, because "they can be wrong too,"

then who? Who is wrong about pandemics less often than scientists? 

Please answer the bolded.