Quote Originally Posted by Newish Pie View Post

The point about experts is that their chances of being right are so much higher than any given randomer who thinks that "research" means googling for information that already backs up what they want to think..
This implies experts agree and are in lockstep, which was certainly the impression the media has tried to present over the last three years but is simply not true. Spend a few months in a court of law and you'll soon come round to the idea that for every expert who says one thing with a convincing argument to back it up, there's another who will say the opposite with the evidence to show it's not true.

The public need to be treated as if they are sat on a jury and allowed to make up their own minds, not spoken down to as if they have the reasoning skills of a pre-**** sat in a Junior School classroom.