Scientists aren't on your side, they're on their side.

And therefore massive skepticism to their claims is needed.  Bayer did a study of pharma 'findings' from academic studies (in the most prestigious refereed journals) and found that they could not replicate 70% of them.  Imagine that:  the most rigorous studies vetted by the top journals and only 30% could be replicated.  Now transfer that to the deeply fraudulent and politically motivated worlds of climate "science" and social "science" and factor in the well known political biases of our chattering classes.  90% bullshit?  You just can't trust our so called 'elites'.  At all.

ANDREW FERGUSON: The Chump Effect: Reporters are credulous, studies show.

Lots of cultural writing these days, in books and magazines and newspapers, relies on the so-called Chump Effect. The Effect is defined by its discoverer, me, as the eagerness of laymen and journalists to swallow whole the claims made by social scientists. Entire journalistic enterprises, whole books from cover to cover, would simply collapse into dust if even a smidgen of skepticism were summoned whenever we read that “scientists say” or “a new study finds” or “research shows” or “data suggest.” Most such claims of social science, we would soon find, fall into one of three categories: the trivial, the dubious, or the flatly untrue.