There has been a critique of the “experts” and intellectuals going back in time to the Romantic movement, a revolt against the excess scientism of the enlightenment. This has arisen most dramatically with the Covid plandemic, where we got a full-on look at how the technocratic elites like Dr Fauci do business. It is naked power politics, using science, or what pretends to be scientific objectivity as a façade. Most importantly, the experts usually get it wrong, full of false pride and intellectual arrogance. The damage done by their hubris is enormous. Thus, we the little people should have a methodological principle of distrusting experts; guilty until proven innocent.
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