Dear Twit:
The thesis advanced is that we should defer to authority more than we do. We absolutely should go to an accountant when we need our taxes done. But we should still question and challenge, as, for instance, my family has learned to with docs. Same with any other authentic experts. Upon what you're an expert is anyone's guess, though you weigh in on many things for which it's apparent you know nothing. And to compare the expertise of doctors or carpenters or plumbers to the "expertise" of social "scientists" and political prognosticators is laughable. Shall we compare the "success rates" of the former with the latter?
I don't weigh in with "gut feelings." When you weigh in with some ridiculous claim, I provide some sort of evidence. You, on the other hand, argue, usually simultaneously, through arguments by assertion and arguments by authority: "It's true because it's true and because I say so as an 'expert.'"