Example #632 illustrating the impulse to ignore what experts say is often the correct one.
Exactly. The Left's appeal to authority has fooled a lot of people - too many Americans have forgotten how to THINK because it is so easy to believe what someone else tells them. Being informed is work - but it opens your eyes.
A lot of the new generation(s) think a click on the Internet will tell them all that they need to know, but they don't have enough basic knowledge about history and science to know where to begin being skeptical. They're lemmings.