- who has no relevant experience in anything being discussed,
- works for an outlet which has shown countless times that it cannot reliably and accurately report on nearly any field and
- whose primary experience has been in taking dictation from the FDA
over one of your peers, who
- has worked in the relevant industry, and the relevant company
- puts his name next to his words, and
- has given you a first person account of what he's seen and done, including acknowledging his own blind spots
If your instincts are to invest immovable faith in the belief that the latter is absolutely lying, based on facts related to you by the former, you are epistemically ruined beyond hope.
This comes from someone who is deeply skeptical of and disagrees with a lot of NYT narratives. I just don’t start a thinly veiled crusade against them whenever they are mentioned.
2. So your opinion is based on even less knowledge than what that article contains?