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Top of their fields are still human. They have flaws just like the rest of us and the ones who can boast continuous ethical integrity throughout their presumably long careers are very few, if any.
Even though they are the best in their line of work, no domain is spared by deviant interests such as corporate, political or even personal.
And though unlikely the average person will unlock the secrets of the universe, it's still possible, even if they won't realize it at all. Dismissing the plausibility fully is in itself a flawed decision made in part by our own lacking abilities overall.
You see I was willing to give you a little bit of a concession in that I do agree that it doesn't take a mechanic to realize that the knocking sound in an engine is probably a bad thing. But you would need to be a mechanic or at least mechanically minded to know exactly where in the engine that noise is coming from what part it is what part needs to be fixed how best to go about getting said part that needs to be replaced installing the part and then charging for labor. And while it's true that any one individual is not infallible usually when you get a collective of experts in their field they're not all going to be wrong at once in the same way. And I'm sorry but somebody doing armchair research from their computer at home is not going to be able to suddenly stumble upon the answer that a panel of experts completely ignored.
Historically, a collection of experts wrong all at once in the same way? 1350: the Earth is the center of the universe 1750: remove bad blood by applying leeches 1950: cigarettes are healthy
are these anomalies? or is grift a feature of a hierarchical research system?