Another reason to distrust scientists/experts is because they do things like this: for years, gaslight everyone who uses the soft concept of a “generation,” like Gen X, the Baby Boomers, etc., saying these don’t exist, the idea is ridiculous, and then come up with the idea of “age cohorts” that are you, you know what, fucking generations.

Sure, with a slightly (very slightly) different “technical” definition, but is 99% the same as the colloquial idea of a generation.

No, I am not becoming a global warming denier, an anti-vaxxer, etc. It’s just that in a culture and economy based on scams, that experts are 50% right and that non-experts are 10% right doesn’t mean that I should trust experts wholly, just that I should assign them somewhat more potential validity while still trusting nothing and verifying everything.