The fallacy is inappropriate appeal to authority. A geologist is not an apporiate authority on what is truly a fruit or berry. And you should not disregard your doctor’s advice just because they’re an authority on medicine.
The word “smart” is nowadays used to mean something like “expert on everything”...but how likely is that? It takes half a lifetime to get serious domain-specific knowledge of just one thing.
The fallacy is inappropriate appeal to authority. A geologist is not an apporiate authority on what is truly a fruit or berry. And you should not disregard your doctor’s advice just because they’re an authority on medicine.
The word “smart” is nowadays used to mean something like “expert on everything”...but how likely is that? It takes half a lifetime to get serious domain-specific knowledge of just one thing.