[jatins]

I feel humans in general tend to highly regard the words of highly successful (or rich) people. Which in turn convinces successful/rich people that they are smart.

You could see that happening on Twitter during covid. VCs, who specialise in tech, were suddenly experts on medicine as well. Because the feedback loop has convinced them they are smart so it's hard for them to not buy into that.

And just to be clear these people are wicked smart a lot of times. Just that expertise in one area doesn't often translate to all others.