Wasn't that the exact same argument given to the expertise of priests and medieval scholars?
In any case, I wouldn't count on that. Recent meta-studies (if we are to at least believe those) show that a majority of scientific papers are non verifiable and non reproducible BS, contain fabrications and alterations, etc -- and that's talking about the "hard sciences". And having been involved with researchers, I don't doubt that at all.
This is the "Experts were wrong before" dodge, which conveniently ignores how often individuals are wrong.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Science_was_wrong_before