What public figure said the following?

I'm assuming it's RFK Jr because it sounds super anti-vax.

I don't know who said it.

Just from my background, trusting experts or, in general/by proxy, authority is just one of (at least) four ways we humans know about our world. The other three are empiricism, intuition, and I think the study of texts (I forgot the proper term for what I mean😅).

I don't agree with the statement, with how it attempts to make a distinction between science, democracy and totalitarianism and religion via trust of experts. 'Trust of experts' is involved in so many things knowledge-related or how we know what we know. This includes science. Democracy and totalitarianism to a degree. Definitely religion.

I don't know. If said in an academic context, encouraging students to think for themselves and critically appraise everything they are told, this sounds reasonable enough. However, in recent years I have heard numerous populists tell me "Don't trust the experts" with no good intention. They erode public trust in professional knowledge and substitute nothing in its place.

I believe in a middle ground. I can admit that someone can know more than me in a subject so I will defer to their expertise. However, that does not blindly believing everything they say; I try to do my own reasoning.

No, I don't agree. Scientists are the experts in the field of science and scholars are the experts on democracy. Of course you could study as much as they did and do, instead, but that's unlikely.

You have to trust experts because you don't have time or the ability to research everything yourself. The trick is to work out which experts are honest.

If you never trusted anything anyone said you would never get anything done.

Partially, because many fields have a degree of subjectivity, such as law and yes, even science. It's best to read and listen but come to your own conclusions.

I think I just accidentally stumbled across the answer . . RFK jnr 🤦‍♀