If you leave it at “seems”, it is going to be bias driven [*]. How about “develop the ability to reason objectively about when you should do your own research”?
[*] Note how contrarianism about climate change and evolution are driven by politics and religion.
No, we cannot assume that the medical establishment, or any other establishment, will always get such questions right. That is not how any of this works. Even the best possible version of the medical (or other) establishment will sometimes get it wrong, if no one points it out without being dismissed as a conspiracy theorist or racist then the establishment will keep getting it wrong and so will you, and criticism is the only known antidote to error in such situations
But remember that just because the official version of X is imperfect , that doesn’t mean the alternative version is better. Distinguish the absolute and the relative.
If you leave it at “seems”, it is going to be bias driven [*]. How about “develop the ability to reason objectively about when you should do your own research”?
[*] Note how contrarianism about climate change and evolution are driven by politics and religion.
But remember that just because the official version of X is imperfect , that doesn’t mean the alternative version is better. Distinguish the absolute and the relative.