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Lol shut up I have two kids, a PhD and almost 20 years experience running a university research lab BEFORE my current job.

So? Did you study the effects of drinking fluoridated water?

Or do you just have faith in those who did?

but listening to the consensus of people who know more than you isn’t religion, it’s a heuristic for making better decisions.

It's just another source of information. Treating that source as absolute truth without understanding it yourself is ignorant.

Are the experts ever wrong?

Smart enough not to treat science like a religion.

The thing is, copying experts does not mean you understand the subject.

Lots of people think that just because they cite someone with more credentials than them, then that person must be correct. That's not how the real world works and you'll understand it more as you get older.

If you just trust people based on their credentials, then you're treating science like a religion and shouldn't be taken seriously by rational people. You do this because it's easier than understanding the science yourself.

This means you will be taken seriously by average people since rationality is on the decline.

You shouldn't trust me just because I said something, yes.

You should understand what's being said yourself so it doesn't matter who is saying it.