Often the best questions come from someone outside the field.
Just because someone has a degree in a certain subject does not make them the only one that can ask questions about that subject.
This is called "White coat syndrome".
Just because someone has a degree in a certain subject does not make them the only one that can ask questions about that subject.
This is called "White coat syndrome".
Argument from authority seems like a bad plan. But arguing against someone _because_ they have authority seems worse.
It is recognised that the most valuable person/s in review panels are the rank outsiders that ask the questions that are considered already answered or too outlandish to consider.
There are a number of studies I can't be arsed to dig up, however Feynman and the challenger investigation is one slightly oblique example.
Outsiders do not have the fear of pointing at the elephant in the room.