If you had said “If you don’t have the time and skills and motivation to figure out what’s true, then a good rule-of-thumb is to defer to people who have relevant industry experience or academic qualifications,” then I would have happily agreed. But that’s not what you said. Or at least, that’s not how I read your original comment.
Sure. But that’s not what you said in that comment that we’re talking about.
If you had said “If you don’t have the time and skills and motivation to figure out what’s true, then a good rule-of-thumb is to defer to people who have relevant industry experience or academic qualifications,” then I would have happily agreed. But that’s not what you said. Or at least, that’s not how I read your original comment.