"Science is not an exercise in accepting a scientist's say-so, dammit."
May your words echo in the hallways of this forum!
May your words echo in the hallways of this forum!
Mike Shapiro at Sun was fond of telling us that "we're not specialists -- we're generalists who can specialize as needed". I think that is a good attitude in general. It doesn't mean we get to weigh in on things we know nothing about, but it does mean we get to do critical thinking and that we can self-educate in order to form opinions when necessary.