Let’s not forget many self-claimed experts are heavily funded by industry. My dad grew up in the 50’s which was spilling over with ads like above and below. Yes, there was a time where people were told by medical doctors that smoking was healthy. Several lawsuits and unfortunately many, many… many decades later, we all know smoking is a top killer. But how could we not question these ads back in the day? How did it in any way seem logical that inhaling smoke would ever be a good idea? It happened because we turned off our brain and relied on authorities blindly. Authorities are meant to guide us because they often do have more detailed knowledge in specific areas than we might have, but they are never to be followed blindly - we should always use our own common sense. No “science” can override common sense. The tobacco industry bribed doctors heavily to promote these lies under a cover of “science” and “doctor-approved”. Is this limited to the doctor field? No, of course not - any “expert title” can be used as a veil to mislead the public when financial interests are at play. We cannot trust on someone based on titles, this is sheep behaviour. We need to always look for the money trail. There is just as much “bad science” today - flawed and rigged by financial interests as there is good unbiased science. As a society we tend to repeat the mistakes of yesterday today - and we cannot afford that anymore. We cannot afford to not adhere to “the precautionary principle” - that means we MUST insist on waiting til things have been tested safe, rather than introducing drugs, new technology etc. just because it has not yet been proven harmful and there are not yet enough deaths to show a statistic correlation. That is insanity. We must insist on NOT using humans as lab rats (and we shouldn’t be using lab rats either for that matter). We are doing this right now in regards to gmo, wireless technology, new drugs, vaccines being released too soon to the public (of course we need vaccines for various diseases, that is not the question, but we need them to have shown “safe” - and that is the controversy today). Luckily more and more doctors are speaking up against the vested financial interests in our health, which has led to us taking drugs based on profitable reasons rather than actual efficacy.