The only reason I ever trusted airplanes is I carefully looked at their accident rate.
It was amazingly low over many years.
I was never taking any “experts” word for it without verifying the numbers for myself.
The airlines, as much as they screw up things, have really been the model of a “High Reliability Organization”. The US Navy tries to emulate that, but complicated high performance military aircraft maintained by 18 year old sailors makes that a bit harder to do.
If the metric of mishaps per launch as an indicator, the airlines do damned will, and the US Navy does pretty good too, though as the recent loss of an F-35 shows us, it won’t be perfect, especially with all the focus on sensitivity rather than maintaining aircraft.
If someone who does Neurosurgery (an expert) wants to talk about removing a glioblastoma, treatments, and possible life expectancy, I will absolutely listen, but not in a vacuum, not without an assessment of the surgeon, patient population, and such.
You can’t do it for everything, but where you can, you should.
It infuriates me that, even though you do need to take control of your own healthcare, there are a lot of people for whom it isn’t really constructively possible to that level...and these Leftists have done all they could to destroy any trust those people might have had.