[–] NoisyCricket ago (edited ago)
Well, of course there is legitimacy to the perspective that there are lots of uneducated people who think they've re-invented physics in their mom's garage. But it's also obvious that many experts are full of shit and are factually wrong on many of the things they assert as absolute truths. Likewise, we're not talking about people living in their mom's basement and examples were provided of experts who are wrong. In this context, your comment is out of place at best and misguided and/or ignorant at worst. That's assuming it wasn't intended to be inflammatory.
The simple fact is, at some point in time, scientists are going to have to start following the scientific method again. Sadly, to a large degree, politics has created a lot of this idiocy.