I do think though that studying something for a lifetime isn’t the same as expertise. People’s instincts on what domains allow for experience to equal expertise aren’t bad. I do think a lifetime studying explosives chemistry buys you more exclusive expertise claims than politics
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The hard corner cases are where true expertise and lay ignorance meet in areas where said experts are forced to try and enforce prosocial behaviors on the laypeople for collective good (vaccines, climate, masks)
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But even there misguided behaviors like noble-lying about masks creates a case for lay people to be cautious in trusting experts even if they lack knowledge to reach their own judgments. When you’ve been lied to enough, pseudoscience seems better than being lied to yet again
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