[Louis Foxwell]

The idea that there is no such thing as a specialist and anyone's ideas about a field are equal has a curiously Maoist fragrance. No thanks.

Now there is a leap! You must be a Darwinian evolutionist. Able to leap tall cunundrums in a single bound.

The fact that you are willing to put your life in the hands of self-proclaimed experts does not make me an agrarian primitive.

I know experts. I have been an expert. Trust me. You don't want to swallow the experts whole.

[Borges]

The condition of elitism you describe doesn't exist since no one is stopping anyone else from pursuing scientific enquiry and become said expert.

[hosepipe]

[ Now there is a leap! You must be a Darwinian evolutionist. Able to leap tall cunundrums in a single bound. ]

Classy metaphor.. The visual it gives me is of a liberal anything bloviating about anything..
i.e. In a red suit with a big "C" on it (the Cunundrumator).. nice..

A liberal trying to make anything simple tends to always make it simplisitic..