Trust in a single person and trust in an institution are two different qualities.
To stay with the analogy, even when we believe individual scientists can fail us we trust in the scientific community as a group.
A person who believes that global warming is a hoax because he found a scientist who told him, is doing it wrong. It’s the same for a person who takes the beliefs of a random priest as the truth instead of the Christian community
Trust in a single person and trust in an institution are two different qualities.
To stay with the analogy, even when we believe individual scientists can fail us we trust in the scientific community as a group. A person who believes that global warming is a hoax because he found a scientist who told him, is doing it wrong. It’s the same for a person who takes the beliefs of a random priest as the truth instead of the Christian community