> What is it with people and willingly accept argument from authority just because there is a PhD or MD next to the name?

Because this is how it worked for literally hundreds of years and it seemed to work just fine, and only NOW does it seem we have a problem

That´s pure kaka. That´s how it has worked for the past 50 years at most and this revisionist history in favor of some high and mighty self-serving position is a no-go for me.

Kaka? Dude, we're doing the exact same thing we did 100 years ago and people are being just as stupid:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1191141

Or let's go back even further to the bubonic plague:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/bubonic-p...

In all these cases, the medical experts were right and trustworthy, and the politicians and public were WRONG AND MISLEADING, and that resulted in more deaths.