[casey2]

The government bureaucrats in this case are usually scientists employees by the government. And as far as I'm concerned anybody using the scientific method is a scientists, and if they aren't then they aren't, job title is meaningless here.

Stop pretending that scientist should be trusted. The recurring narrative you complain about is true and it's what separates science from dogma.

Scientists are experts in incredibly narrow fields and almost always speak about topics they have no knowledge of, even more dangerous, they convinced themselves and others that they have knowledge of these topics because they are superficially similar to something they know well.

[watwut]

No they are not. These are administrators, plain and simple. Nothing wrong with that, but those positions don't require scientific education nor perform science. Not work for scientific institution nor are part of that process.

Stop lying, frankly.