The notion of the independent expert is dead. Now, they are rewarded, because they have credibility (why I dont know) for arguing positions to support an agenda. But we know it now, and for those of us who DO know, their “credibility” is actually a negative. We know them as tools of the Ministry of Propaganda.
‘We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.’ – Decca Recording Company when turning down the Beatles in 1962. (The group was also turned down by Pye, Columbia, and HMV).
Decca later signed the Rolling Stones to their label. At the urging of George Harrison.