The entire progressive “rule by experts” (rationale for the administrative state) hinges on an irrational and illogical premise, that, somehow, magically, by mere official appointment, someone is transformed into God when it comes to a position about something, as if there could not possibly be other independent positions equally worthy of hearing from.
Government does not need to appoint experts. It needs people who will go outside of government and get, and make public, a variety of viewpoints, and with the help of others weigh them all and with those others agree on what they admit is not the perfect answer but just best consensus they can come up with. That all needs to be done very publicly, not in closed rooms consisting only of “the experts”.
Agencies have no checks on their authority. Entirely illegal.
President Eisenhower warned of this in a lesser known part of his military industrial complex speech—most Americans are just beginning to “get it”—many decades later:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.”