I used to have this attitude of… medical professionals have trained a huge amount, and are very experienced, and it's a bit silly to think I, a rando with access to google, could make better decisions than they could.
One of the key events that made me change my mind-— Aella (@Aella_Girl) October 21, 2021
Someone in the top 1% intelligence-wise (which Aella definitely is) can out-expert most experts in most fields fairly easily by doing diligent research and studying the latest findings in that field.
Why is this? For someone like Aella, there is no political capture, while experts often get stuck in their ways and have knowledge that is 10-50+ years outdated. This comes with huge caveats, though! You probably cannot do this reliably unless you are in that top 1%, and there are some fields where this is not possible without years of study.
But for anything medical? Yeah, not hard. Anti-vaxxers, though, show what happens when the bottom 99% attempt to out-expert experts, and it’s not pretty.