I think you have to be living under a rock to not see the abundance of overlap between the "trust the science" people and the "parents shouldn't have a say in schooling people."
To be blunt, let's be honest, nobody who I knew in highschool who ended up being a public school teacher was competing for valedictorian. No public school teacher had the choice of going to MIT for engineering or to Harvard law and chose to make $30k a year babysitting a bunch of brats. So, in this case, these people aren't telling you to trust the experts or trust the people that know best.
Really, whether it's the science or the schools, these people are always saying the same thing: "Shut up and trust the authority figure."
Fauci has better credentials than most people on the planet while he's been consistently wrong for the last three years.
Yeah, having a formal education and a credential generally makes you less likely to be a complete idiot on the issue.
That's not something that means that we should submit to people with credentials.
I mean, Paul Krugman has a Nobel prize in economics and he's still a fucking idiot.
If I hit Krugman with a question about how wrong he was about 9/11 being and economic good and how Bastiat's parable of the broken window stands in contrast to what he said; and Krugman's response was to flash his Nobel prize rather than make an argument, as he often does, he would be making the fallacious argument.
I'm not in favor of dismissing people with credentials off-hand. I can understand that somebody with a PhD in physics is more likely to be right about physics than I am. Still, people who know what they're talking about should be able to make their own arguments rather than appealing to their credentials.
schooling=/= education. My mom "only" has a high school diploma and less than 2 years of further education to become an auxilary nurse. She seems brighter than the average person
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