I took your statement, “it looks like nobody on the thread is an expert scientist,” literally. It could be that I’m confused by what you mean with “expert scientist.” You qualified two from the list but questioned Sharon Redobre’s (I misspelled her name in my comment) inclusion as merely being a veterinarian. When I read her curriculum vitae [1], I can’t help but conclude that she is both, an expert in her field, primates and exotic animals, and a scientist based on the definitions I consulted [2, 3, 4].

I will not discuss the others you excluded; it would be tedious and belaboring the point.

Finally, I agree with those who refuted the original poster despite his answers to their counterpoint. Someone posted a claim that was argued with civility over the chain of comments, not unlike what happens in HN. How such a discussion is tiresome, I leave to individual preference. :-)

[1] https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sharon-redrobe-obe-11139912

[2] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/scie...

[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scientist

[4] https://sciencecouncil.org/about-science/10-types-of-scienti...